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Should I change to AMD

wiggyuk

wiggyuk

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Hi all, I currently have a P4 3.2 on a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe board but my bro in-law as just brought a new board and is getting a new CPU so he said I can have his Ultra DFI Infinity board and AMD 3800+ 64bit CPU for £30, so I need you guys expertise to advise me on what I should do, the only problem is if I do swap over I will need to get a PCI-E graphics card and probably a new PSU to power is as my PSU is only 300w peak load and I don't really want to spend a great deal of cash.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Definately do it for that price! Less heat and more speed always a plus.
What PSU/Graphics combo have you got right now?
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So the AMD is quicker then my current set-up ?

What is the AMD and board like at over clocking ?

My PSU is a Jeantech 300w peak load and my graphics card is a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

williamw11 said:
Get a 939 dual sata board and it wont need an upgrade.
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what's a dual sata board ? is that one that take AGP & PCI-E ?

That's even more money then though, I am looking to upgrade to a Q6600 in the next few months so I might get a PCI-E graphics card and PSU that will be OK for when I upgrade to the Q6600 ?
 
williamw11 said:
It is but it saves you from getting new gfx and psu until you need them> Twas only a suggestion. Although I would be tempted to get rid of the Jeantech asap.;)
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Yeah true but the is no point in upgrading to the AMD if I still cant do what I want to do, the reason I was thinking of upgrading is because with the AMD and Infinity nF4 Ultra board my bro in-law plays games and they play very well indeed even some games on high graphics I think he as a ATI 1800 ?
 
You could find an X1800 or a 7800 for about £50, which would still allow newer games to play and still look nice. Hell, probably pick up an 8600GT or 2600XT which would be alright.
That DFI board is a nice board, could probably get a reasonable clock out of the AMD, as for PSU, might aswell get a decent one now so you can just keep it for your Intel upgrade in the future.
I take it that it'll be the single core 3800 chip that you'd be getting?
 
I run the ASRock board and it's been fantastic, overclocks particularly well and equals if not slightly outperforms the nvidia equivalent boards - just fantastic for the low price.

I ran an AGP on it then went PCI-E, flawless.

Also for £15 you can buy an ASRock AM2 riser card which allows you to upgrade to AM2! I'm more then likely going that route with a 5000+ black edition.

The ASRock has been the cheapest board I've ever owned but has been a stalwart. 8)
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
You could find an X1800 or a 7800 for about £50, which would still allow newer games to play and still look nice. Hell, probably pick up an 8600GT or 2600XT which would be alright.
That DFI board is a nice board, could probably get a reasonable clock out of the AMD, as for PSU, might aswell get a decent one now so you can just keep it for your Intel upgrade in the future.
I take it that it'll be the single core 3800 chip that you'd be getting?
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Yeah its the single core, which is the better card out of the ones you listed above ?

Also what PSU would you guys recommend ?

If I do upgrade does that mean I can run Vista & XP 64 bit ?
 
wiggyuk said:
Yeah its the single core, which is the better card out of the ones you listed above ?

Also what PSU would you guys recommend ?

If I do upgrade does that mean I can run Vista & XP 64 bit ?
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64bit --> Yup you can.

Out of those cards I'd look at an 8600GT if your budget can stretch to one. The X1800/1900 are power hungry and would strain your PSU. The 7800/7900s are a good buy too.
 
X1800 is a faster card than the 7800, I've got a 7800GTX and still think it's a good card but the ATI option would be the best cheap card option.
The 8600/2600's may be faster though, don't know much about them really and it would all depend on if you could find them cheap.

You'd be able to run 64bit OS as the chip would support them. :)
 
So which card out of the 8600GT & X1800 and I don't mind about the card being power hungry as I am going to get a new PSU anyway, so what card and what PSU and how much would I be looking at picking the card up second hand and even the PSU second hand if I could get a descent one I would be willing to spend £70 - £80 on the card second hand and about the same on a PSU ?
 
Look for a branded PSU around 400W+

Have a look at Tomshardware GFX charts to compare the GFX cards. Either will do you fine for any recent games. They don't support DX10 though so you'll miss out on some eye candy on new games.
 
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