Upgrade Advice - Been a While

Shi-Devil · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:29

Hi there,

I hope you are all well. It's been a while since i've been on here and times passed quickly. 5 years in fact.

I currently have a pc with 1GB of Ram, a Radeon X800 PCI-E GPU and 2800 Athlon Processor. Cough....I play games on my pc mostly and well it's struggling at the moment. Oh a Samsung Spinpoint Hard drive? about 40gb, which is nowhere near full.

I have the case a decent monitor too.

Basically I need advice on a decent serup, for the following:

GPU
Motherboard
RAM
Processor and Fan etc
Maybe Hard Drive? Nothing Massive

Any ideas, what's best these days, AMD or Intel? ATI or Nvidia? Dual Cards?

I am looking to spend about £500 on these items, maybe a little more.

It just all looks a lot to take in on the website. I've seen some bundles but then get confused lol.

Steve

Admiral Huddy · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:37

Welcome Back to the Forums

This chap here has the same budget.. Might give you an idea:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18029483

Angst · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:39

id have a look at the following
e8400
titan fenrir
asus 5q range
gtx 260 (nvidia)
spinpoint f1 320gb (will be a lot faster then your current spinpoint)
and have a look at the ocz and corsair range of psu's

Shi-Devil · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:46

My mate has 2 GPU's, seems to think this is a good way to go.

Again I don't mind spending a little more, just not a massive amount.

Angst · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:50

2 gpu's is really something to do later on when your in game performance starts to drop

mp260767 · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:49

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99 (£130.43)

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.8GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £105.00 (£91.30)

Asus M4A78T-E AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £98.99 (£86.08)

OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3P13334GK) £46.99 (£40.86)

Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD5001AALS) £43.99 (£38.25)

Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366) £33.34 (£28.99)

Sub Total : £415.91
Shipping : £10.00
VAT : £63.89
Total : £489.80

siumatfung · 8 Jul 2009 at 11:03

judging buy the age of your system a new PSU will be needed unless you have bought it within the last 2 years

heres my offering

Shi-Devil · 8 Jul 2009 at 16:58

Hi,

What about a power supply, currently got a Tagan 500W, about 5 years old, and also the fan is out of stock, any other suggestions? mp260767?

I'm looking like going with your spec.

mp260767 · 8 Jul 2009 at 20:24

have a look at the Scythe Mugen 2 for a cooler.