Spec me a upgrade ~£500

[Thesnipergecko]

Hi folks here my current setup:

Barton 2500m
nforce 2 mobo
1.5GB GeIL RAM
Geforce 6800GT

Im looking to go SLi and x64 bit or Dual Core.

Would like to keep my RAM to use in my next machine so not looking for buy any more ram. What im looking for is:

AMD CPU
PSU
GFX
MOBO
HSF

Only looking for the one Graphics card at the minute. Maybe get a 2nd in a month or two.

Paul ...

 

[Logan09]

How about:

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939)- £114.95
ThermalRight XP-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink - £22.95
MSI RD480 Neo2 Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard - £64.95
FSP Sparkle FX600-GLN Epsilon 600W ATX2.0 PSU - £69.95
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £144.95


Subtotal £417.75
VAT £73.11
Total £490.86

That includes a powerful enough PSU to handle 2 gfx cards if you decide to go that way in the future.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Logan09's specification looks fine but you will need a fan to go with the heatsink, you could consider the Arctic Freezer 64 instead which offers good performance and is cheaper.

Also I don't know how you have your Ram, is it 4 matched pairs i.e. 2x512mb and 2x256mb or 3x512mb? If it is 3x512mb you won't get the benefit of dual channel, if it is 4 sticks then you will only be able to run at 2T instead of 1T(I think that the problem affects Crossfire motherboards as well as Nforce ones).

 

[Monstermunch]

Sell your ram and buy a 2gb dual channel kit. It WILL be faster. As far as gfx goes a single x1900xt will spank 2 7900gt's sli'd so you're bettert off just buying a single card.