I have a few quid to spend up updates in the £400-£500 range, my two system are below and I will not need DVD RW, monitors, mice or keyboards, I was thinking that I could get a CPU upgrade for the gaming pc (E8500 wolfdale and clock it out to 4ghz). I could then take the E6600 over to the other PC
Get a cheap mobo (GA-EP45-DS3 w/Artic Cooling Freezer 7 pro OR Thermalright Ultra 120a) that will clock the E6600 to 3.2Ghz again and a cheap graphics card (something fan less? No idea though, will only be desktop stuff, websites and word).
Then buy 2 gig of 1066hz ram (GeIL 2GB Black Dragon OR OCZ Reaper)and take the crucial stuff over to the old but quite PC. Both machines are running WinXP PRO, I am waiting for Windo$e 7.
If I have missed any information I will be happy to answer questions just post. I am trying to achieve a near silent given the money 2nd pc and a gaming rig with a bit more poke.
Many Thanks
Gaming Rig (Almost 2 years old)
Antec Nine Hundred/Ultimate Gamer Case no PSU
Corsair Memory 620 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2
MSI S775 nForce 680i Core2 Ready ATX Audio Lan (P6N)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Socket 775 2.4GHz (currently at 3.2Ghz)
Crucial 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM PC2-6400 Unbuffered Non-ECC CL4
QuietPC SCYTHE Ninja-Plus Heatpipe (fan installed)
XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI TVo
Western Digital Raptor 150GB S150 16mb 10000rpm (on second RMA cannot fault their speed though)
Old but quite PC
BeanTec case, beige as it comes but well made steel case (more than likely hard to fit new heat sinks though? If I need a new one quite as possible given money would be great)
ASRock K7VT4A Pro Socket A KT400A ATX
AMD Athlon 3200XP (but running @ 1.8Ghz because ASRock only supports 333Mhz FSB and the dog won’t hunt on the overclocking front)
1gig crucial ram no idea on speed.
Corsair Memory 450W ATX PS/2 SATA 12V
GeForce 5600FX
Get a cheap mobo (GA-EP45-DS3 w/Artic Cooling Freezer 7 pro OR Thermalright Ultra 120a) that will clock the E6600 to 3.2Ghz again and a cheap graphics card (something fan less? No idea though, will only be desktop stuff, websites and word).
Then buy 2 gig of 1066hz ram (GeIL 2GB Black Dragon OR OCZ Reaper)and take the crucial stuff over to the old but quite PC. Both machines are running WinXP PRO, I am waiting for Windo$e 7.
If I have missed any information I will be happy to answer questions just post. I am trying to achieve a near silent given the money 2nd pc and a gaming rig with a bit more poke.
Many Thanks
Gaming Rig (Almost 2 years old)
Antec Nine Hundred/Ultimate Gamer Case no PSU
Corsair Memory 620 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2
MSI S775 nForce 680i Core2 Ready ATX Audio Lan (P6N)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Socket 775 2.4GHz (currently at 3.2Ghz)
Crucial 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM PC2-6400 Unbuffered Non-ECC CL4
QuietPC SCYTHE Ninja-Plus Heatpipe (fan installed)
XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI TVo
Western Digital Raptor 150GB S150 16mb 10000rpm (on second RMA cannot fault their speed though)
Old but quite PC
BeanTec case, beige as it comes but well made steel case (more than likely hard to fit new heat sinks though? If I need a new one quite as possible given money would be great)
ASRock K7VT4A Pro Socket A KT400A ATX
AMD Athlon 3200XP (but running @ 1.8Ghz because ASRock only supports 333Mhz FSB and the dog won’t hunt on the overclocking front)
1gig crucial ram no idea on speed.
Corsair Memory 450W ATX PS/2 SATA 12V
GeForce 5600FX
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