upgrade time-help

tumbleweedldc · 14 Nov 2009 at 13:39

the time has come to upgrade my P4 d 3.4 rig with a old x800 graphics card
what i need is a new board cpu 3 to 4 gig of ram and maybe a new graphics card to run a 22inch display at 1680x1050 res also if the budget runs to it 2x80gig hdd to raid 0 and a new opperating system not sure if to go 64bit need advise on that dont do much gaming budget around £550 for the above i will be keeping the case disc drives and storage drives from my old rig and onbourd sound will do me fine
thnks in advance
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95thrifles · 14 Nov 2009 at 13:42

When you say you dont do much gaming, how much do you mean? If its none then an integrated gfx solution would be ideal, so AMDs AM3 785G chipset, this will still run all things fine on your screen including any HD content, just it wouldnt cope with modern games. If you do game occasionally then you'll still want a reasonable gfx card in there, something like a 4870 would suffice
You say you dont game much but what do you do with the PC? Can give much better recomendations this way. I would definitely recomend w7 64 bit, and re your HDDs 80gig??? dont think they make them that small anymore, lol, unless youre on about SSD's which would rapidly eat into your budget

tumbleweedldc · 14 Nov 2009 at 13:53

Hi thanks for that just a thought would my old x800 run a display at that res,i play a few driving games thats my gaming needs do a lot of photo work and some vid encoding i only looked at 2x 80gig hdd to raid0 but no problem going up in size for both of them if the x800 is no good dont want to go to mad on graphics card
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95thrifles · 14 Nov 2009 at 14:21

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £211.99 (£184.34)
Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £144.99 (£126.08)
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) £126.99 (£110.43)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £37.98 (£33.03)
Total : £555.95

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This is probably your best bet then, assuming the old gfx card is PCI-E? If you plan on OCing you'll want to add an aftermarket cooler, you could at a later date add another 6 gig of RAM which would benefit your photo work