Upgrading comp to use 5850, please advise on compatibility

[maxim.mitrokhin]

I'm upgrading a comp for my friend. The main upgrade is for the graphix card ATI radeon 5850 and I would like to check if all the other details will be adequate.

Processor - DualCore Intel Pentium D 930, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Mobo - Asus P5K SE (2 PCI, 3 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Ram - Hynix HYMP564U64BP8-Y5 512 Мб DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM X2 (1Gb total)
PSU - 350 W

if anymore details are needed please ask. I think i covered the most important items.

Thanks in advance

 

[maxim.mitrokhin]

So wats the main difference between lets say:

DualCore Intel Pentium D 930, 3000 MHz

and

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail

thank you for the replies so far

 

[maxim.mitrokhin]

I could go into detail on how the core 2 uses a much newer/faster architecture, uses a smaller/better manufacturing process and and overclocks like a beast. But this chart explains it pretty well, In PassMark (CPU Mark) the E8400 is around 3 times faster than that Pentium D. Not to mention cooler and overclocks far better.

thanks a lot for that, this chart should help

what do you think is the weakest processor for not limiting that card and playing most of the games with good fps with 5850

 

[maxim.mitrokhin]

Thank you for more useful replies, the reason for such a wierd upgrade is that a gift from me is 5850, and the rest the guy is upgrading, because he wanted to do an upgrade anyway, but there is budget involved on his side. So by buying this card he can spend the budget on some more powerful things. This what we came up with so far:

So far we decided on a Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz
and 4gb of 8500 ddr2 ram, can't remember exactly which make
for psu I was thinking 550W - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-014-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

what would you thoughts be on that?
Once again thank you for your input

Edit: As you can see I assumed the budget would be smaller, but turns out to be its about 11/15 of the total budget, so saves him some money as well.

 

[maxim.mitrokhin]

That corsair PSU looks great, definately worth the investment.

I wouldn't usually pick a Q8000 series chip, but for £125 I must admit that it is a good deal. Just make sure you get a decent cooler and overclock the chip.

If you are looking for RAM recommendations, this is the stuff you want.

Ah sorry that was a stupid mistake to make on my side, we did decide on the Q9400 and thanks for the ram suggestion