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Hello,
As the title suggests I have a budget of roughly £500 to spend on a little upgrade. I mostly play BF2 and X3 and I notice them slowing down with the detail cranked up so I guess its time to beef my system up!
Current Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ S939
Asus A8V-Deluxe
1Gb Corsair PC3200 DDR TwinX
Nvidia 6800GT AGP
2 x 74Gb Raptors in Raid 0
So to begin with I will definately have to change the Mobo as its basically a bit broken, with only half the SATA ports working and a PCI slot dead etc etc. It doesnt allow me to overclock to any degree and it only has AGP... so basically has to go!
So my first option for upgrade is as follows:
Keep exisiting CPU and Overclock
Keep exisiting RAM
*New* Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra = £64.57
*New* Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB = £149.17
Total cost = £213.74
I also thought about using the HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 512Mb Graphics card but from reading the forums it seems it is overkill as I only use 1280x1024 resolution. Is this correct?
Second option is to delve into DDR2 and AM2:
*New* AMD 3800+ AM2 CPU = £81.02
*New* Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) = £70.44
*New* Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX = £152.69
*New* Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB = £149.17
Total Cost = £453.32
Or thirdly something completely different suggested by the wise folk of these forums... I guess Conroe is gonna go over the £500 mark?
Anyway please rip my spec to shreds and tell me im stupid, but remember to suggest an improvement!
Cheers
As the title suggests I have a budget of roughly £500 to spend on a little upgrade. I mostly play BF2 and X3 and I notice them slowing down with the detail cranked up so I guess its time to beef my system up!
Current Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ S939
Asus A8V-Deluxe
1Gb Corsair PC3200 DDR TwinX
Nvidia 6800GT AGP
2 x 74Gb Raptors in Raid 0
So to begin with I will definately have to change the Mobo as its basically a bit broken, with only half the SATA ports working and a PCI slot dead etc etc. It doesnt allow me to overclock to any degree and it only has AGP... so basically has to go!
So my first option for upgrade is as follows:
Keep exisiting CPU and Overclock
Keep exisiting RAM
*New* Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra = £64.57
*New* Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB = £149.17
Total cost = £213.74
I also thought about using the HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 512Mb Graphics card but from reading the forums it seems it is overkill as I only use 1280x1024 resolution. Is this correct?
Second option is to delve into DDR2 and AM2:
*New* AMD 3800+ AM2 CPU = £81.02
*New* Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) = £70.44
*New* Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX = £152.69
*New* Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB = £149.17
Total Cost = £453.32
Or thirdly something completely different suggested by the wise folk of these forums... I guess Conroe is gonna go over the £500 mark?
Anyway please rip my spec to shreds and tell me im stupid, but remember to suggest an improvement!
Cheers

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