Right it's time to upgrade my old gaming pc that i gave to my Son. Consists of AMD 3800x2 @ 2500mhz on a dfi lanparty expert with 2gb of muskin redline 3 250gb wd sata hdd and a xfi gamer pci sound card. Oh and an nvidia 8800gt. I'm going to keep the case, gpu, sound card and hdd's. Going to get a new psu as the current one is now 6-7yrs old, new mobo and cpu and possibly a new cpu cooler as i have a zalman 9700 cooler and the case will only except coolers around 150mm high or less. Was thinking of the following, Amd fx6300 in a asus sabretooth AM3+ 990fx r2 or maybe a fx8320. Was going to go intel i5 3570k but that would lead me with no upgrade path later. Already have 2 6gb triple channel kits of ddr3 1600mhz spare from my current i7 930 machine and have bought a wd 500gb cav blue sata 3 Hdd for win 7 64bit o/s. My budget is around £400 - £500 but less would be good. So i need new psu, cpu, mobo, sata dvd drive, win 7 and possibly cpu cooler.Will change the gpu when funds allow in the future, the pc will be used mainly for homework, Social networks and light gaming as my son games on an xbox.
Upgrade from socket 939
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Ha ha patience, yes looks like a good build. But surprised people not recommended AMD fx 8350 or 8320 or 6300 thought they were ment to be good value for performance? Was thinking of upgrading gpu at Christmas maybe, although I have a 5870 1gb card spare as my backup. Will see if anyone has any further thoughts, but yes looks like a solid build list if not.
If I went AMD it would also mean I should have an upgrade path with am3+ mobo. Also expect future games to be encoded more for multi core and amd as new consoles are amd hardware. May try to persuade son to hold out alittle longer buy everything apart from cpu and mobo. I also think trinity will be a little lacking.