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[Mike1]

Hi,

I have an AMD athlon 64 cpu running at 3.2Ghz.
I have a GeForce GTS250 with 1GB memory.
I also have 4GB of ram.
My OS is windows 7.
I run Simulators mainly and I am thinking of upgrading my Graphics card and memory.
My Mother board has a memory capacity of 8GB.
What would the forum community suggest please.

Regards
Mike

 

[Hagar]

Is this a proprietary machine, DELL or similar.

What power supply have you?

Motherboard model would help.

regards, andy.

 

[beejjacobs]

Is this a proprietary machine, DELL or similar.

What power supply have you?

Motherboard model would help.

regards, andy.

These questions, but also what is your budget?

 

[Mike1]

Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
I hope this is of some help to you;--

Is this a proprietary machine, DELL or similar.
I built my own.

What power supply have you?
A Corsair 620 watt.

Motherboard model would help.
M2N-SLIDelux.

regards, andy.

My CPU is a dual core.
I am thinking along the lines of £300---£350.
Regards
Mike

 

[beejjacobs]

for that kind of money, assuming your hard drives are SATA. You could upgrade your CPU, Motherboard, RAM and GPU! What about:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £61.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) £40.79
Total : £210.17 (includes shipping : £9.50).



Then you've got £140 or so for a GPU

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-160-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1830

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-253-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-143-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

This CPU is significantly better than your current one:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/190?vs=289

BTW, DDR2 RAM is quite expensive to be honest, so it may be more cost effective to do a more full upgrade like this.

 

[fowler002]

for that kind of money, assuming your hard drives are SATA. You could upgrade your CPU, Motherboard, RAM and GPU! What about:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £61.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) £40.79
Total : £210.17 (includes shipping : £9.50).



Then you've got £140 or so for a GPU

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-160-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1830

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-253-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-143-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

This CPU is significantly better than your current one:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/190?vs=289

BTW, DDR2 RAM is quite expensive to be honest, so it may be more cost effective to do a more full upgrade like this.

why do you insist on h67 mb when the gigabyte z68ap-d3 for £18 more gives future understandability to the k series of cpus and overclock them? the h67 board doesn't allow you to overclock the cpu if you go with a k series cpu in the future.

I would say something like


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML4GX3M2A1600C9) £23.99
Total : £355.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).



tho new graphics cards are just around the corner

 

[Mike1]

Hi,
I thank you all for your replies, I was thinking of keeping my set up but replace the Graphics card and add the remaining 4GB giving me 8GB which is the maximum the Motherboard can take.
The reason for all this is I would like to increase my frame rates in game.

Regards
Mike

 

[Alex74]

Hi,
I thank you all for your replies, I was thinking of keeping my set up but replace the Graphics card and add the remaining 4GB giving me 8GB which is the maximum the Motherboard can take.
The reason for all this is I would like to increase my frame rates in game.

Regards
Mike

Adding more RAM would be a redundant investment in old tech. 4GB is fine tbh, and running an Athlon 64 will be your main bottleneck, especially if you're considering 300 pounds worth of tech here. If that's your budget, you'll be far better off investing in a balanced system that'll do what you need, such as those as suggested above.