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Upgrading help

Danfalc

Danfalc

Danfalc

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Hey guys

My Birthday is coming up, so I was thinking of upgrading my Graphics card. But my cpu is only a E2180 2ghz and people have told me it would just bottleneck a newer graphics card.

Right now I am looking at the E6700 which is 3.20ghz and only like £66 which is affordable for me. I have heard some really good stuff about the E8XXX series, but the cheapest starts off at like double the price, £120, and they go up to like £160 :(

I'm thinking the E6700 is a lot more reasonable price wise, and would probably give me a good boost as it is?

So you guys know what I'm looking to do,I pretty much only use my pc for gaming, I game a lot. Right now I don't play In high resolutions but I would like to eventually play my pc through my HDTV.

Also I should maybe ask this is another thread, but would anyone recommend a graphics card In the range of £150? I will be upgrading from a 8600 GTS
 
cmndr_andi said:
May I ask what make and model PSU you are using so we can check that it's powerful enough to support one of these graphic cards?
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Yeah sure I never even thought to check those things!, it's EZcool 500w. Also the motherboard is Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H. I hope that helps.

I never really thought about getting more than a dual core, but seems like a wise idea even if it ends up costing a tiny bit more.

I get so confused over all these different graphics cards, there is so much conflicting information, but thank you for the links, I will do a little research on them but also work out how much I feel comfortable forking out. Weird question, I noticed newer graphics cards come with 6 pin slots for power, where as my current graphics card uses 4 pins. Is this just a simple case of using some sort of adapter?

Thank you for the quick response btw.
 
Hey thanks both of you. Given me a lot to think about.

Though I am a little confused now as there seems to be conflicting data. But if the AMD chip is faster for gaming then that's what I would want. To get a 3ghz quad core for my current mobo your talking £200-300. And the Q6600 is like £130 brand new and is only like 2.4? Surely that would slow it down on games which don't use multiple cores yet, and it's surprising how many don't.

So yeah the AMD seems like a good choice to me. I also have a spare PSU, which will likely be higher quality than the one I'm using so I'm sure I will be ok power wise.

As for memory, I think I currently have like 4gb but it is DDR2. Which graphics card did you mean Hazkirby, or just that all three were good choices for their respective price?

Anyway thanks again, you have both made me think of things I might of over looked otherwise.
 
*edit, never mind. I checked my old pc In hopes that I could use the mobo out of that, but it's ancient. 939 socket and uses ddr1.
 
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Hazkirby said:
Note: 955 is also a good choice :D
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Haha gah, my head hurts now :D I guess this is one of the reasons I have put of upgrading for so long, I use to build PC's when I did work experience, but it's still a nightmare for me.

No seriously thank you lol. Both helped a lot.
 
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