Upgrade time - Spec me!

Prophet

Prophet

Prophet

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My PC is playing silly buggers so its time to upgrade.

I'll need the following:

CPU
HeatSink
Motherboard
Ram
Graphics Card

Looking to spend around £300.

I'd need the Mobo to have a few IDE connectors for existing devices.
 
This should do for you, spend the remaining £15 or so on an IDE controller card as almost no motherboards now come with more than 1x IDE port.

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £51.99
(£61.09) £51.99
(£61.09)
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Sub Total : £231.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £42.16
Total : £283.07
 
I've just realised I have a dual port PCI ID Controller so I'm OK with the board not having many ports :)

Thanks for the spec s-p-w :)

I guess I'd be able to clock that system a little to without any problems?
 
Yep, shouldn't be any problem, depending on how far you want to take it you might need to change for an after-market cooler, the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro would just fit into the budget.
 
I don't mind stretching to a TT cooler tbh. I'd like the system to be as quiet as possible.

Do you know if the OcUK 8800 is fairly quiet?
 
I'm afraid I don't since I don't know who is producing them for OcUK at the moment, I'd guess it is probably the reference cooler but you could perhaps drop OcUK a webnote to find out more.
 
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