Upgrade Help

[Nicfish]

I have been wanting to upgrade my pc as my last upgrade was a year ago. Another reason for this is that my 6600GT is playing up a bit. I have a few choices to go through all with bad and good points. Can anyone give me some help? I am looking at the best performance for under £200.

Choice 1:
New AGP graphics card (7 series or similar)
Pro: Cheapest option unless i want something really good
Cons: Probably not the best performance and wont be long till it gets as dated as the 6600GT

Choice 2:
New 754 PCI-e mobo and graphics card (7 series or similar)
Pro: Good performance, Within budge range
Cons: May not be very future proof

Choice 3:
New 939 CPU PCI-e mobo and graphics card
Pro:Best performance
Cons: Bit more than i want to spend

I mainly use my pc for games and probly be alrite with just mobo and gfx upgrade but i was hoping for some opinions and best performance for as little as possible. I would like to be able to run games like crysis on average kind of settings.

Any input appreciated and any other options people can think of.

 

[Nicfish]

So do you think i will be alrite with my 754 cpu? Ive looked at some pci-e 754 boards and found them for around £40ish + VAT. So im left with around £150 to find the best pci-e gfx card for that kinda money.

 

[Nicfish]

Just a thought

Go for a setup similar to my sig, obviously to your budget. Nice thing about the Celeron is overclocked it performs really well and u can upgrade to conroe later.

How much is your setup excluding mem, hard drive etc.

 

[Nicfish]

I suppose if i keep apgrades to 1 a year then my cpu and mem might be able to survive another year. I think the main thing in my way is my gfx. It would be easier to get a new AGP. But the outdating thing is a slight issue and the PCI-e versions seem cheaper and faster than there AGP cousins.

 

[Nicfish]

Is my 1gig not enough? Or are you saying that i dont even need to take a cpu upgrade into consideration?

 

[Nicfish]

Depends on the detail you gonna run the game at. Detail destroys 1gb of mem in no time.

Im happy with average kinda detail. Playing Darkstar One at the mo and i find it a lil depressing seeing all the settings on low lol

I just found a foxconn NF4 skt pci-e on a site for £30. Any info on these.

 

[Nicfish]

Do you think i am better off trying to get a 7900GTO in the "this week only" or will they go down in sometime like nov? I dont plan to buy anythin till nov but if it will be cheaper to get now then i will.

ALSO what is the ATI equivelent of the 7900gto?