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Firstly, hello, new to OcUK and glad to be here 
So let me get down to it, basically I've had my head buried in the sand for a year or two in the PC Building world. Yes i have built computers for friends but i haven't kept up to date with my CustomPC subscription
.
Anyway, at the moment i mostly use my Alu MacBook, or PowerMac G4. As for PC Gaming my PC is showing its age. Specs:
Case: Asus Vento 3600 (awww yeh.)
PSU: Hiper 580w
Mobo: Socket 939 Asus A8N SLI-SE
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2.6Ghz
Memory: 1gb of something awfull like ps2700
HardDrive: 1x250GB IDE with Vista, 1x40GB IDE of XP < (weirdly i mostly use the 40GB)
Graphics: Asus nVidia Geforce 7800GTX (I think cant remember after all was about 3 years ago!)
So anyway, was looking at the Intel Core 2's. With a P45 board (Asus probably, love there boards.) With a good 4GB ram. However, some people have been saying the AMD Phenom is now worth a consideration (Phenom 2 obviously)?
Lets set a budget of around £500, if its something epicly better for not much more thats okay.
Jason.
So let me get down to it, basically I've had my head buried in the sand for a year or two in the PC Building world. Yes i have built computers for friends but i haven't kept up to date with my CustomPC subscription
. Anyway, at the moment i mostly use my Alu MacBook, or PowerMac G4. As for PC Gaming my PC is showing its age. Specs:
Case: Asus Vento 3600 (awww yeh.)
PSU: Hiper 580w
Mobo: Socket 939 Asus A8N SLI-SE
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2.6Ghz
Memory: 1gb of something awfull like ps2700
HardDrive: 1x250GB IDE with Vista, 1x40GB IDE of XP < (weirdly i mostly use the 40GB)
Graphics: Asus nVidia Geforce 7800GTX (I think cant remember after all was about 3 years ago!)
So anyway, was looking at the Intel Core 2's. With a P45 board (Asus probably, love there boards.) With a good 4GB ram. However, some people have been saying the AMD Phenom is now worth a consideration (Phenom 2 obviously)?
Lets set a budget of around £500, if its something epicly better for not much more thats okay.
Jason.
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