UPGRADING MY COMPUTA.

[JackR]

Hi i currently own a prebuilt piece of poo as follows:

# Intel Pentium D 950 Dual Core Processor
# 3.4GHz, 800MHz FSB
# Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
# 2GB DDR RAM
# 400GB Hard Disk Drive
# VD ROM Drive + Dual Layer DVD RW Drive
# 512MB nVIDIA GeForce 7600GS Graphics
# 300GB Removable Hard Drive

I'm thinking of buying this lot:

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel
Asus P5K SE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Antec Basic 500W PSU

And adding to the above computer. This is the first time ive ever upgraded a comp / overclocked one.

Few questions:

1. is there anything else i need?

2. Is there a better way to spend my money? (totals £378.22 incl. VAT and shipp)

3. is there any way to keep the info on my HDD?

 

[jak731]

if this is your first time OCing, get the e2180, it has a higher multiplier makign higher OCs easier.

to keep the hdd data, simply make sure you dont format the drive that contains your data in when you install windows and your data will not be lost. it may be worth getting a new HDD for the OS, and use your old hdd as a storage drive

 

[iKettles]

Get an E2180 instead of a E2160, and a Corsair VX450W.