upgrading need help with

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hi chaps
wanting to replace my old am2+ athlon rig with somthing new. but i dont know what? i would like a i5 or i7. the PC will be used for gaming, surfing ect and i only need a cpu,mobo and ram my budget is £300-450

My rig now is

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz

4GB of giel DDR2 black dragon ram

Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe

XFX GTX260

antec 902

corsair HX 850w

corsair H-50

2x 1TB spinpionts f3s

win 7 X64

all i need is the CPU,mobo, ram i would like corsair ram but thats not importent
i would like to have usb,sata 3 but thats not to importent
also the rig WILL be overclocked :D
 
Your board can take a Phenom II 945, so you could see if you can pick on of them up. You could always email Asus & ask them if you would get away with putting a 955 in there.

That would be the cheapest option unless you want to get a new motherboard as well

how can my board take a 945 thats am3 not am2?
 
Are you aware that both of Intels current sockets are dead next year. 1156 in Q1 2011 and 1366 in Q3 2011. AMD makes much more sense in terms of future upgrades.

whats intel bringing out next year then? i heard that 1156 and 1366 will be around for a lot longer? (sorry double post)
 
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Best to give it a bit of a search if you can get away with a 955 as that is a black edition & better for over clocking where's the 945 is not a black edition & there is only roughly £15-£20 price difference

no it dose not look like i can get a 955 to work with my mobo, thanks mate ;)
 
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