Upgrade help, what to get ?

[BEN_UK]

Hello,

My brother wants his PC upgrading.

The specs are, P4 1.8A Northwood, 512Mb RAM, Nvidia AGP Geforce FX 5900 XT 128Mb.

The system is getting old now, hes had the graphics card 2 years and the CPU and mobo are older than that.

He mainly plays games and not sure what is the best upgrade path for him.

Hes on a very tight budget. I think its best if we just upgrade the CPU, Mobo, RAM and graphics card (leave everything else)

Say £300 to spend, less is better

Thanks Ben

 

[NeptuneUK]

a modern low end pc would be better than an old mid range pc!

not sure what to get for 300 quid tho :\

definately wants another stick of 512 in it though!

Abit KN8 SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ABIT_Socket_939.html

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (this week only!!)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_This_Week_Only_25.html

PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-PC)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X800PCI_Series.html

TOTAL: £238.65 inc vat and delivery!!!

leaving you with some money to get another stick of ram. not sure what it has in at mo though. thats a v good deal!!
it will play all of todays games easily. my friend has a an X800GTO which plays fear at med settings at a TFT res

 

[BEN_UK]

Thanks for that sounds good.

Think i will change the mobo for one thats SLI, hopefully save a few pounds.

The 512Mb RAM he has now is very old so doubt we will beable to use it.

How does the ATI Radeon X800 GTO 128Mb compare to his 5900 now ?

Thanks Ben

 

[NeptuneUK]

much much better!

as far as im aware, the 5900 has 4 pixel pipelines. the x800gto has 12!!!


edit: also the 5900 is a directx 8 card i think. youll see lots of nice shiny DX9 effects!