Upgrade help please

[beezay]

Hi,

I'm looking to carry out an upgrade on my PC in order to increase the overall system performance and to achieve higher and more consistent fps in the games I usually play - counterstrike: source, COD4 etc.

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 4600+
Geforce 7800GTX
2GB DDR1 PC3200
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Maxtor 320GB SATA HDD (I think)

I'm looking to upgrade just the motherboard, processor and memory for some where around £300. I've been suggested the following three:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail

Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB)

Firstly, will my motherboard be compatible with old components that Im intending on keeping for the time being? (Graphics card, sound card etc.)

secondly, I'm looking to OC the processor, any particularly good cpu fans or something of that nature I will need?

and finally, will these new components fit in my case - it's a prebuild case from mesh that I bought about 2 years ago.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Rich

 

[beezay]

yeah think my case is ATX, cheers jak

 

[beezay]

I'm not too sure about memory timing, will the dominator ram be compatible with that mobo? I wasn't too sure about what memory to select, anyone got any ideas on the memory or anything else for that matter?

 

[beezay]

Ok I'll look into some different RAM possibly as I was only intending on OC'ing the processor, will it be safe to OC the processor with the stock fans and if so how high? If not then any decent reasonably priced fans etc?