Upgrade?

britain · 17 May 2008 at 20:05

Evenin
Looking to upgrade my pc.ATM i have a Athlon 64 4000+ with a A8N-E,seasonic m12 700,8800 GTX,150gb raptor and 2048 mb of ram in a coolermaster cavalier case(not oc'd).It plays all the games i wish to play atm very well (mainly mmorpg's/hl2).
I'm still on xp home but also thinking of a os upgrade.
As i play mmorpg's and these being memory hungry and dx10 out, should i get 64 Vista?
I have approx £300-£400 too spend on upgrade.
Cpu/mobo/memory/os/case?

Many thanks all

jak731 · 17 May 2008 at 20:53

i would be intent on getting something like a
45nm intel cpu
p35 chipset MB
pc2-6400 RAM 4GB
Os of your choice
case of your choice

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
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Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.53GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £73.99
(£86.94) £73.99
(£86.94)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £59.99
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add case

britain · 17 May 2008 at 21:02

Many thanks for such a quick reply
Looks a very good set up.Please don't think i'm questioning you, but as i haven't upgraded for i while why don't you suggest the quad core or the ga-p35-ds3l.
Again very much appreciated

jak731 · 17 May 2008 at 21:09

i dont suggest a quad core as not many games can use 4 cores and buying a quad may not have been in your budget, depending on what case you get. i didnt suggest the ga-p35-ds3l as i havent used that mb, however if you think its a better board go for it.

britain · 17 May 2008 at 21:18

Thanks again
Do you think the latest mmorpg's will use quad (i'd av too spend more!!)
Age of Conan/Warhammer

jak731 · 17 May 2008 at 21:22

i dont really do any online gaming of any type so i wont be able to say, however if you want to spend more, i would suggest the q6600 as the quad to get even though there are newer quads out, they seem overpriced for your budget.

also add a 3rd party cooler to your spec such as the artic cooler pro 7 if you are not OCing or mildly OCing or the tuniq tower if you are trying to OC a lot

lunarwolf · 17 May 2008 at 21:25

jak731 said:
i dont suggest a quad core as not many games can use 4 cores.

I second the motion.

PS - i am playing one of those MMo in BETA (can't say which coz NDA) and you don't need quad. Instead get 4gb RAM for Vista64.

I would favour lower latency Ram PC6400C4 - any of the brands on OCuK will do