Put my mind at ease... please?

keogh

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keogh

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Howdy,

Ok I just bought all the components for my new PC from OCuK this morning, and they are on their way to me, so should get it all tomorrow.

The new rig has set me back £1,161, so quite a bit... but not as much as it was going to be when I originally spec'd a Q6600!

My current rig had all its parts bought here 2 years ago, and I am slightly worried that my new £1,161 rig will not be much better (playing games wise I mean, not Windows) than my current setup. I mainly feel this cos, clock speed wise, my new CPU is only 200mhz faster each core :)

Anyway, my current rig spec and my new one is listed below... could you tell me if you think this will make a difference in gaming (namely STALKER atm as I am loving that... but it doesn't play well at 1920x1200 on my current setup)?

I will overclock the the new CPU, but if you could tell me how much of a diff you think it would make at stock would be cool... cos I don't know how much I will get outta my E6600.

CURRENT RIG
Asus A8N-SLi PCI-Express Mobo w/ Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Cooler
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.6ghz w/ Artic Freezer Pro 64
Corsair 2GB XMS3200C2PT (2x1GB) @ 2-3-2-5 1T 220mhz
BFG 7800GTX OC 256mb @ Stock w/ Zalman VF700-CU
Hiper HPU-4K580 Type R 580W PSU
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2004C 200GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
CoolerMaster Cavalier 3 Case

NEW RIG
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard w/Arctic Cooling
Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Soundcard
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

Sorry if this is a stupid post, but I am just hoping my money has been spent wisely and I get a noticable improvement in gaming?

Thanks

Steve M
 
I wouldn't upgrade at the moment, you have a pretty kickass PC already!

To get Stalker to run nicely just buy a better 3D card, your CPU should have a lot of life in it yet, certainly enough to see Core 2 Duo come down in price :)
 
I think you will see a fairly decent improvement although I would say you have upgraded perhaps a little early. As said above, clock speed alone means very little these days and you also have the added bonus that there will no longer be a Hiper PSU in your rig :D
 
Trigger said:
I think you will see a fairly decent improvement although I would say you have upgraded perhaps a little early. As said above, clock speed alone means very little these days and you also have the added bonus that there will no longer be a Hiper PSU in your rig :D
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Yeah, I'm sure my Hiper was doing some weird things recently, but overall its been pretty good.

Hmm, well hopefully I can clock the E6600 quite a bit, but we will see. I think my new GeForce will make quite a difference! Still excited about receiving it!

Thats another thing... how much you reckon I could get for my current system? Ebay for example? We allowed to talk bout that here? Im not exaclty a competitor :) ?
 
You could try the MM here, I think your old rig has components that people would consider buying as they are still quite high end.
 
keogh said:
how much you reckon I could get for my current system? Ebay for example? We allowed to talk bout that here? Im not exaclty a competitor :) ?
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Really you should post in thr price checks forum but I think because it's not a dedicated "How much is this" post then we should be ok to talk about it.

I actually have no idea how much that would fetch :p
 
keogh said:
.... MM?
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OcUK said:
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Kind of like the bay but you are dealing with the people here who are probably more likely to want your old stuff.
 
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