Upgrading current machine

[PSGamer]

Okay, So i have a HP pavilion thats starting to fall behind in terms of performance, initally i hoped that it'd be a simple enough job of just sticking a new processor in, but its not socket 775 so it can't accept dual core processors, so that's quite a speed bump.

anyway, im looking for an upgrade for about the £150-200 range , i would want to just build something new but it seems a waste, anyway, id like to salvage the hard drive and the optical drive in it, and perhaps just upgrade the motherboard , the CPU and the ram, i did install an AGP nvidia graphics card and a larger HD, but AGP seems a bit behind now, but i guess a dual core would make up for it.

Both my HD and DVD drive are IDE, but it seems you can get an adaptor for IDE to SATA so would it be reasonable to just get the adaptors and save a little? less hassle in my opinion. I did replace the HD anyway so there's plenty of space. Also put an extra stick of ram in it, so it has 1gb of ram.

anyway, i was thinking of recasing just to get better airflow and a more powerful PSU just incase it is needed. So I think this would do :

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £82.24

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail - £68.14

Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU - £61.09

Total - £218.45 (with delivery etc. vat included)

Does this seem a wise choice?

Comments and Critisms welcome.

 

[PwnDirect]

Bit more info would be helpful

Full details of your current spec

mobo,gfx, hdds, psu etc.

Also what will be the main use of this pc? what games ? what res?

by the way your grapics ram etc will not be compatible so you will need to get new stuff.

DRR 1 ram & agp cards have held there vaule well so best bet is to strip out the good parts sell them. Then sell it as a basic tower then put the proceeds to a full new build.

eg:

mobo

case & psu

cpu

gfx

hdd

ram

£333.94
£384.03 inc VAT

 

[PSGamer]

They may have held there value, but not enough to push me up into that budget,

i was thinking of a simpler setup, seems alright for its price :

Intel Celeron E1200 1.6Ghz Dual-Core Processor (LGA775) / Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H GeForce 7100 Micro-ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express Motherboard / GeIL 2GB PC2-6400C4 800MHz Bundle - £124.74 inc VAT

Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU - £61.09 inc VAT

Akasa AK-965 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) - £12.91 inc VAT

Total : £208.65 (with delivery etc.)

From the reviews ive read all the components seem good for their price, The celeron can apparently hit 3ghz with ease, and im not much of a hardcore gamer so the cache wont be too much of a stuggle for me, is this a good budget setup? (still planning to keep the HD and DVD and use IDE to SATA adaptors.)

in terms of my current computer, its a 2.8ghz p4 single core, AGP Nvidia Geforce fx5500, 1gb ram, hope thats enough, i think it will still be an upgrade jumping to a dualcore with 1gb more ram.