Hi,
Very long time lurker (and very occasional poster) - but its come round to time to upgrade my system again so just looking for a bit of advice really.
Currently running
E6600 Dual Core clocked to 3.2Ghz
4gb DDR2 Ram
Gigabyte DS3 Motherboard
Ati 4890 1Gb graphics (bought on the 'this week only' a week ago
)
Looking to upgrade the CPU, Mobo and RAM for a budget of around £300. I am a bit out of touch as to the performance of CPUs recently. I have done a bit of research and a system based around a AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition seems like it could be good.
Would I see much of an improvement over my aging E6600? I mainly play games so nothing to intensive like encoding. Again I would try to overclock the 720 - what sort of overclock could I expect on high end air cooling - is 4Ghz acheivable? Am i better off playing the waiting game for Intel i5 or AMDs next offering?
Any advice or recommendations gratefully received,
Cheers,
Impster
Very long time lurker (and very occasional poster) - but its come round to time to upgrade my system again so just looking for a bit of advice really.
Currently running
E6600 Dual Core clocked to 3.2Ghz
4gb DDR2 Ram
Gigabyte DS3 Motherboard
Ati 4890 1Gb graphics (bought on the 'this week only' a week ago
)Looking to upgrade the CPU, Mobo and RAM for a budget of around £300. I am a bit out of touch as to the performance of CPUs recently. I have done a bit of research and a system based around a AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition seems like it could be good.
Would I see much of an improvement over my aging E6600? I mainly play games so nothing to intensive like encoding. Again I would try to overclock the 720 - what sort of overclock could I expect on high end air cooling - is 4Ghz acheivable? Am i better off playing the waiting game for Intel i5 or AMDs next offering?
Any advice or recommendations gratefully received,
Cheers,
Impster
