What to get for upgrade

Carth

Carth

Carth

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Hi

With all the new games coming out it's time for an upgrade. I want to be able to play games like UT3 and Crysis smoothly. Here is my current set up:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
CPU: AMD Athlon64 3200+
GPU: ATi Radeon X800 XL 256MB
PSU: Akasa 400W ATX 2.0
Memory: 1GB PC3200 DDR Dual channel

The motherboard is socket 939. Probably the only thing I can keep is the PSU?

I am not going to overclock anything myself, so getting something that overclocks well will probably be a waste. What should I buy to get best performance to last me, whilst spending as little as possible? :)
 
This would do nicely.
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I included the GTS as a placeholder for the upcoming 8800 GT which should cost about the same and outperform it.

What is the current rating for your existing PSU? My guess is that it won't have the oomph to get the job done but it might, thus saving you 68 quid.
 
Above looks good. Only change I'd make, since you said you were looking for it to last and be future proof (as far as possible) I'd get the Q6600. And I'd have to agree a new PSU is going to be needed, the Akasa might cut it for a while, but I think it'd go eventually, and it might take other stuff with it
 
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