Thinking of an upgrade...

[Matt_Hirst]

I currently have 3 machines, well 2 nd a half machines as one doesn't have any ram so is just there in case of breakdown.

The machines are:

Main Machine:
Opteron 170
2gb RAM
X800GTO2 reflashed as x850
4 * 250gb HD striped and mirrored

Garage Machine:
*2 3800
1GB RAM
X300
1 * 250 Gb hard disk

1/2 Machine
AMD 64 3200
ATI Crossfire board
250 gb hard disk.
no ram.


Now I am thinking of a bit of an upgrade to a intel machine so am thinking along lines of the following:

Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express/AGP DDR2 MB (£43.46)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) (£46.99)

Now my question is would this be an upgrade, speed wise - hence the reason I put this in CPU area, to my main machine in std form / or overclocked or would I be better off saving up for a better Motherboard/CPU and Ram when the cash allows.

Main uses are development and occasional gaming.

regards,

Matt

 

[smithy83]

hi i can tell you from first hand experience asrock motherboards are poor overclockers it a good idea to spend a little bit more on it looking around on the forums people do like that cpu seems it can be oc pretty well

 

[WJA96]

The ASRock made sense when good DDR2 RAM was £100/Gb but now, when it's £15/Gb and with PCIe 8800GTs now on the market for about £115 delivered I'd really have to suggest something a bit more extensive for an upgrade.

I take it you'll be wanting to take the RAID array with you following the upgrade?

 

[Matt_Hirst]

Thanx for replies...

Yes to wanting to take raid array with me.

Think I'll hang off for a bit until I get more money together.

regards,

Matt