upgrading to conroe

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well exactly as it says in the title im looking to upgrade to a conroe chip sometime soon, well if i get my wage rise at the end of this month then i will be ordering straight away.

My current pc is these specs:

ASUS A8N-SLi SE
AMD 64 3700+
2GB Geil value
NVIDIA 7900GTO 512MB

afaik from reading not only will i need a new motherboard but also new memory, DDR2 is what im looking at, correct me if im wrong. So i was looking at upgrading the setup to the 6600 chip and this is currently in my basket

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - £169.99 (£199.74)
Asus P5B-E Plus (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £74.99 (£88.11)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) - £84.99 (£99.86)

firstly this all work ok, and secondly will i need to upgrade anything else.
my psu is a Enermax 600W Noisetaker, and ive got 2x 160gb SATA-II hard drives.

thanks :)
 
I'd go with what masslac said about the RAM, as for the mobo, you can get any of the P5B, DS3/4, or maybe even the P5N-E SLi, I don't know if you plan to go SLi (most people don't) but it's nice to have that option :)
 
another question, ive made brand new builds before (all stuff new etc) but never swapped out a mobo and cpu, will i have to do a total clean install or could i swap the mobo and cpu without losing everything on the harddrives :confused:
 
more questions do you recommened to buy a new cpu fan or is the one supplied good enough? i wont be overclocking because i dont know how to (or trust myself doing so :p )
 
bailey12856 said:
another question, ive made brand new builds before (all stuff new etc) but never swapped out a mobo and cpu, will i have to do a total clean install or could i swap the mobo and cpu without losing everything on the harddrives :confused:

Unfortunately you would have to do a clean install, it can be done without, but sometimes its just not worth the hassle :)

The Intel stock HSF is good enough if you're not going to be over clocking, hell its good even when you are clocking :D I had mine @ 2.5 on the stock cooler until I decided to buy a Freezer 7 Pro. If you change your mind about over clocking (believe me do it!!) then you could always buy a new one at a later date :)

Kiz
 
masslac said:
FYI, SLI is pretty much a total waste of time.

yeah dont think i would ever decide to go SLi in all honesty, but it is always nice to have the option, but think im gunna stick with the P5B-E plus mobo.

Just gotta wait till Friday see if i got the wage rise then will order the stuff :)
 
i have to say about ram here guys, perhaps im lucky here lol, but i was advised to get good memorey, ect ect, at the time i could not, so i had to plump for corsiar value select ram, it is very good ram, maybee not in the same leage as others, but i have overclcoked mine easily form ddr2667 to ddr2 800 without any problems whatsoever, the only thing i had to do to it was buy some heat spreaders for it, apart from that it is brilliant ram, so it proves you dont always have to buy the dearest ram going.
yes i will most likeley purchase some higher spec ram at some point , but atm im quite happy with it.
 
anyone know at what point i am able to access the members market, just i dont like selling stuff on fleabay and ive heard about the members market on here been a good place to sell components etc.
 
bailey12856 said:
anyone know at what point i am able to access the members market, just i dont like selling stuff on fleabay and ive heard about the members market on here been a good place to sell components etc.


there is a part in the rules, i think of hand its 250 posts
Hope it helps
 
bailey12856 said:
ah long time away with my average post rating :rolleyes: might just stick the old parts on fleabay then
i have sold a few thins on there i do not liek to do it , you have to pay back to them a persentage of what you get, if you use the better options, although there is a big user base on there, i have bought a fiar amount of stuff of it meself
 
I just swapped out a motherboard, and managed to get away with doing a repair install of windows.
I used drivercleaner to clear out all the old drivers.
Had to reinstall\repair a few bits of software (.net framework had issues), but basically it works pretty well and has preserved all my settings.

A clean install is the best option though, just not the only one :-)
 
tripitaka said:
I just swapped out a motherboard, and managed to get away with doing a repair install of windows.
I used drivercleaner to clear out all the old drivers.
Had to reinstall\repair a few bits of software (.net framework had issues), but basically it works pretty well and has preserved all my settings.

A clean install is the best option though, just not the only one :-)

yeah a mate mentioned this to me about just repairing windows, i reckon i might do this, as id rather do this than loose a lot of game & software installs etc. what sort of software did you find you had problems with or was it just mainly the .net framework
 
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