upgrading to conroe

bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 09:48

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

bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 09:59

oh well ive changed the RAM, i doubt i would go SLi but like you said always nice to have the option, will have a look at the mobos

bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 10:02

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:

bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 10:06

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

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bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 10:17

right cheers for that, looks like ive got a lot of backing up stuff then before i install

bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 11:14

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

bailey12856 · 21 Mar 2007 at 12:37

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 · 21 Mar 2007 at 12:43

DataVampire said:
there is a part in the rules, i think of hand its 250 posts
Hope it helps

ah long time away with my average post rating :rolleyes:

might just stick the old parts on fleabay then

bailey12856 · 22 Mar 2007 at 09:08

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