Thinking of upgrading, need some advice

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Currently I have an X2 4400 with 1gb ram and a 320mb 8800GTS.

I'd like to upgrade and am wondering whats a good route given a budget of around £200 ish.

I'm looking to keep the graphics card and change the processor to a Core 2. So this would need a new motherboard and ram afaik, as well as a new cooler, unless the stock is any good.

Any advice would be appreciated and I can extend the budget if its not too outrageous and the performance boost is worthwhile.
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £48.99
(£57.56) £48.99
(£57.56)
Sub Total : £163.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £30.14
Total : £202.35

unless you are willing to OC it will not be much of an upgrade, however it will mean you are ready for penryn if you want to go intel.

maybe get the IP35 pro if you can afford it and you want/need the extra features
 
jak731 said:
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £48.99
(£57.56) £48.99
(£57.56)
Sub Total : £163.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £30.14
Total : £202.35

unless you are willing to OC it will not be much of an upgrade, however it will mean you are ready for penryn if you want to go intel.

maybe get the IP35 pro if you can afford it and you want/need the extra features
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Thank you for that list.

What would be considered an upgrade over the current setup? One of my main reasons for wanting to upgrade are the system instabilities i've been receiving lately, I had to RMA my RAM twice already and the motherboard has seen better days.

Also would my current Hyper 580W PSU be ok for the upgrades listed above?
 
ShiWarrior said:
3.3?
how did u get your E1280 to 3.3? mine wont boot, see my offcial clocking thread for my bios screen shots, can u point me in the right direction mate? :)

Ta
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330 x 10 using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Hit 60C but had had to up the volts to the NB, FSB and CPU obviously.

The Mem wasnt that happy (OCZ 667 stuff on a divider) but i havnt had time to tinker with the settings.
The rig is for somebody else but i reckon i could get the Chip to 3.5 under water. Its back at 3ghz now 333 x 9 1:1 with Ram and happy at stock volts.
 
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
E2180
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler.

You will get that to 3Ghz no problem for a little over £200 including the Freezer pro 7, just under without
 
ShiWarrior said:
I wouldnt buy PC2 5400 RAM if your going to overclock, you want 6400 minimum becuase that is 800 MHz
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An E2180 has a 10 multi so you can run the CPU at over 3.3ghz and the mem will still be fine.
I have a E2180 rig running at 3Gig (333fsb x 9 for the CPU - 333mhz for the Mem so running at 1:1). 1333mhz CPU's are 333fsb (quad pumped) PC 5400 Ram is 333fsb (667 cos its ddr).
PC5400 Ram is fine for CPU's with a high multi.
 
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