Upgrade paths?

Neoni · 19 Jul 2006 at 23:10

whats the best upgrade options from a:

3.2P4 Skt478 with XP-120
2048mb Ram Crucial Ballistix
Gforce 6800 GT 256mb AGP
400Gb ( 200gb x 2, Maxtors )
Creative Sound Blaster (not sure which model fairly new though)
Hyper Type-R Psu 580 Modular
Network card Pci
Akasa Eclipse 62 ( gettings air vent side panel soon )
2:1 Creative I Trigue
Razer Copperhead Tempest
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard
17" Flatron LG 12Ms
4 x 120mm Fans, Akasa Ultra Quiet
Fan Controller Akasa Pro
Fan Exhaust

best upgrade path?

limit of about 300quid right now, not bothered about going for all 3 just yet but help would be appreciated.

fenderbass86 · 19 Jul 2006 at 23:53

Is that what you have now?

Neoni · 19 Jul 2006 at 23:54

fenderbass86 said:
Is that what you have now?

Right Ok, ill save then

fenderbass86 · 19 Jul 2006 at 23:54

I meant the components.

Neoni · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:00

fenderbass86 said:
I meant the components.

you edited it! you put conroe first lol

and yes its what i have right now.

fenderbass86 · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:03

Damn, so you did see that! But yeah, only a full upgrade to pci-express and conroe would be worth it, but costing more than £300.

Neoni · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:04

fenderbass86 said:
Damn, so you did see that! But yeah, only a full upgrade to pci-express and conroe would be worth it, but costing more than £300.

Obviously its not a bad spec though atm right?

Zefan · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:06

Neon said:
Obviously its not a bad spec though atm right?

Not if it does all you want it to. Luckily the 6800GT is still a decent card and you have enough RAM to run most games. CPU is less important than RAM when it comes to FEAR, Oblivion etc.

Neoni · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:07

Zefan said:
Not if it does all you want it to. Luckily the 6800GT is still a decent card and you have enough RAM to run most games. CPU is less important than RAM when it comes to FEAR, Oblivion etc.

updated the list.

Zefan · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:07

'Tis fine although games that are yet to come out will probably struggle. I reckon the games that are out now are the last games you'll really get playable framerates at 1280x1024 and above.

quadboi · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:13

I think he could get a new graphics card now, as its a good time new games will be coming out etc...

Zefan · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:16

Yeah that's true, but unless he upgrades to PCI-E he wont get anything better than the card he has.

Neoni · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:19

im going to i28/29?

end of year id like to upgrade just before then.

semi-pro waster · 20 Jul 2006 at 01:02

You could go for something like this, taking advantage of the price drops on the X2s and keep your existing Ram and graphics card.

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£36.95 £36.95
CP-174-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-174-AM)
£199.95 £199.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£14.50 £14.50
Subtotal £251.40
VAT £44.00
Total £295.40

Or go for this which includes a new graphics card and see how far you can clock the CPU. Conroe would be better probably but you would need new CPU, Ram, motherboard and graphics card and you can't improve that much on what you have given your budget.

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£36.95 £36.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£136.95 £136.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£99.95 £99.95
Subtotal £273.85
VAT £47.93
Total £321.78

Neoni · 20 Jul 2006 at 01:13

semi-pro waster said:
You could go for something like this, taking advantage of the price drops on the X2s and keep your existing Ram and graphics card.

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£36.95 £36.95
CP-174-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-174-AM)
£199.95 £199.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£14.50 £14.50
Subtotal £251.40
VAT £44.00
Total £295.40

Or go for this which includes a new graphics card and see how far you can clock the CPU. Conroe would be better probably but you would need new CPU, Ram, motherboard and graphics card and you can't improve that much on what you have given your budget.

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£36.95 £36.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£136.95 £136.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£99.95 £99.95
Subtotal £273.85
VAT £47.93
Total £321.78

the first option gives me the benefit of going to pci next month?

semi-pro waster · 20 Jul 2006 at 01:43

Yes the motherboard has both PCI-E and AGP slots so you can go PCI-E as soon as you can afford it, the motherboard should also be up to a reasonable amount of overclocking.

Goodeh · 20 Jul 2006 at 02:10

Neon said:
im going to i28/29?

end of year id like to upgrade just before then.

OT: I'm going there also, see you in august!

And what you have now will support all the major tournement games for the I series