Upgrade from X2 3800+

geeza · 20 Oct 2007 at 19:04

Didnt know u can get core 2 due for £43. :eek:

At the moment ive got a X2 3800 running at 2.8ghz and DFI ultra-D board. Would it be worth selling them on ebay or something and going to a cheap intel system?

Also got a X1800XT & 2gb G-Skill HZ

hp7909 · 20 Oct 2007 at 19:15

geeza said:
Also got a X1800XT & 2gb G-Skill HZ

Is that DDR2 RAM? An Intel setup will need that, but its cheap as... see

steve258 · 20 Oct 2007 at 19:32

If you are planning to overclock the **** out of it then it's worth the upgrade. I moved from X2 3800+ 2.6Ghz to E4300 3.1Ghz and I've not looked back.

But if all you want is game then money is better spent on a high end graphics.

Clairvoyant · 20 Oct 2007 at 20:03

As above, if you game then get a HD 2900 XX or a 8800 GTS 640 or GTX (depending on what res you play at)

paradigm · 20 Oct 2007 at 21:42

I went from an X2 3800+, 1GB gskill PC4400, and SLI'd 7800GT's to the spec in my sig (2GB at time of upgrade) and the difference was like night and day (and mine was a "cheap" intel rig)

Chris19 · 21 Oct 2007 at 01:14

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you, i got an 8800GTS 320 and there isnt any game that it cant run with decent graphics. Im going to hold off an upgrade untill we start to see motherboards with PCi-e 2.0 coming out as this would not leave you behind with all the new cards.

geeza · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:24

thanks all. The memory isnt DDR2. I dont really play games but ive recently been playing crysis beta a bit. Team fortress 2 works fine.

Other than that i only use my pc for music, videos and the net (and one puzzle game)