What to do with £200

[A5H]

Well, it's my birthday coming up, and as a result I'll have £200 or so to spend.
My current rig is:

3200+ venice S939
1GB corsair 3200 RAM (2x512 unfortunately)
Gigabyte NF4 jobbie. None SLI. S939 (Unsure on exact model number)
Sapphire 256mb X800GTO PCI-E graphics

Now my question is, would it be wise to stick with S939 and go dual core? Probably a 4600+ X2. Or would you wait, save the money and go to conroe?

Mostly used for photoshop etc.

Cheers,
Ash

 

[A5H]

What are you finding slow?

Nothing really.
To be honest I just fancy an upgrade before I go to uni.

I think after reading peoples replies I'll stick with S939. May aswell get the most out of it before I move on.

I'm guessing a 4400+ X2 with a decent PCI-E card and 2GB RAM would play games at an acceptable level?

Would it be worth selling my current RAM and CPU? How much would they get me approximately?

Cheers for the help,
Ash

 

[A5H]

I think you would be lucky to get 100 quid for the pair, but I could be wrong.

4400+ is a fine CPU, however if you are on a budget I would go for the 3800+. It has a smaller cache than the 4400+ but it clocks like a beast. 2.6 and 2.7GHz is very common.

SiriusB

I'd rather have decent stuff so I guess I'd just have to upgrade in steps.

Is S939 stuff going to become hard to get anytime soon? It is end of life right?

I could buy the 4400 X2 and sell my CPU and RAM to get a 2GB kit (aswell as the change from the 4400). Then just wait to get a graphics card. TBH, I've not played any games recently anyway.

Thanks for the help