Upgrade

Jayman · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:00

Hi, im in need of a little advice regarding upgrading my PC. Currently im running an AMD 2600 with 1gb ram on an asus a7n8x mobo with a geforce 6800 gfx card (agp). I have 2x sata HD's that I upgraded to at the end of last yr so there fine but think the cpu could do with an upgrade having scored 3.5 on the vista cpu test, vista also does seem abit sluggish hence why I think its time to upgrade.

So some advice would be greatly appreciated as im abit out of touch with these things these days, I mainly use the pc for music & internet & dont want to spend too much on it £300ish I guess, dont mind going abit higher if its worth it, thanks.

Will_3rd · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:15

if you want to keep your current system your best bet would be to upgrade your RAM to 2GB and update your GPU to a AGP 7600 etc

t31os · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:18

If you want to keep the 6800 then something like this fits the budget.

Then sell your old ram and change the graphics later on or when you like...

Will_3rd · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:20

Would go for t31os spec in retrospect

t31os · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:21

The ram is on special, so it might not stay that low..... but there's usually a decent 2gb kit from around the same price, as like the other on special this week.

Jayman · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:22

Well if possible id keep/utilise what bits I already have if they are decent enough, like I say kind of lost touch abit so for all I know my gfx card could be dog slow or not compatible with whatever mobo I need to get :confused:

Will_3rd · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:28

The C2D M/B that is speced above is AGP compatible which iirc you seem to have.

The 6800 is fine for Vista and what you want to do.

bluebox · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:29

I had 1 Gb RAM when I first upgraded to Vista and it was paging all the time. Upgraded to 2Gb and its flying. Adding RAM - within reason - has always been, and probably always will be, the easiest way to speed up Windows.

Jayman · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:57

Yes im thinking 2gb of ram is the way to go here, however if I just upgraded my ram from 1gb to 2gb which would be very ideal on the wallet!

im guessing it wouldnt cure all my problems & that the cpu is the real prob with my current setup?

Will_3rd · 29 Mar 2007 at 13:19

The CPU is probably the main problem, it isn't great

tried overclocking it all?

Jayman · 29 Mar 2007 at 14:52

Nope, havent overclocked it & I think its coming upto 4yrs old now so it has had a good innings!

t31os · 29 Mar 2007 at 21:50

If you want new tech, you'll be forced onto DDR2 either way, Intel or AMD, i choose that board so you could at the least carry over the graphics card, heck you could even use DDR in there, but you'll only have 2 slots.

So you could just buy the CPU and Board and still get a good increase in performance.

I've not used the board personally, but it fits the budget nice...