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Flenser

Flenser

Flenser

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Hi guys and gals,

I'm a bit out of touch on system building after not having put one together for over two years now and I could do with a little help on a system upgrade.

My Sempron 3000+ is on its last legs and I was intending to just upgrade the memory to a couple of Gb in order for it to see me through another year but then my back-pay arrived.

Obviously the CPU, mobo, memory and graphics card will be incompatable with a modern system but I hope to reuse some of the other kit, I have:

Antec Lanboy case
Corsair HX 520W PSU
Seagate Barracuda 80Gb HDD (IDE)
WD 5000AAKS HDD (SATA II)
Lite-On LH-20A1S-11C 20x DVD+-R SATA Optical Drive

Now I imagine I can bin the 80Gb drive if necessary and go with the 500Gb for both boot and storage but all the rest of it is okay I hope?

I don't do any gaming (that's why god invented the Xbox 360) but I do intent to do music and maybe some low-level graphical editing. And I'd prefer onboard graphics if possible to keep the initial cost down.

Last time I spec'ed a system Intel ruled the roost and DDR2 was cutting edge... Help!

I have £150 to spend.

Thanks in advance.
 
maybe go with something like :


Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £62.09 (£53.99)

Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H GeForce 7100 Micro-ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £57.49 (£49.99)

OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £18.39
(£15.99)

Sub Total : £119.97
Shipping : £8.49
VAT : £19.27
Total : £147.73
 
Thanks for the swift replies. :cool:

Is it still worth keeping separate boot and storage drives? I guss I must have had a brainwave at some point in history...
 
Flenser said:
Is it still worth keeping separate boot and storage drives? I guss I must have had a brainwave at some point in history...
Click to expand...

i still do it, saves losing stuff if a reinstall is needed, also helps with having the page file on another disk.
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
CP-251-IN_60.jpg
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £53.99
(£62.09) £53.99
(£62.09)
MB-144-GI_60.jpg
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2 NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i Chipset (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £43.99
(£50.59) £43.99
(£50.59)
MY-014-OK_60.jpg
OcUK 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £29.99
(£34.49) £29.99
(£34.49) Sub Total : £127.97 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.49 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £20.47 Total : £156.93
 
Am I likely to notice any difference between the two suggested motherboards?

(Not had a chance to check the spec yet as I'm at work)

And will 32bit XP be okay with 4Gb of RAM, is it going to fall over or just use what it's capable of?

Many thanks.
 
Oh, and another one...

Will these motherboards boot to SATA or do I still need to slipstream the XP disk to get the drivers?

Like I say, it's been a while.
 
Just like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for their help again.

The bits arrived yesterday and I spent four hours last night stipping out the old components, fitting the new ones and reinstalling XP SP3 (slipstreamed using nLite with the correct SATA drivers just to be on the safe side) and all the rest of my software.

No problems at all, everything compatable and even XP didn't give any problems.
 
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