Worth the upgrade?

Redgie

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Okay so a friend has offered to buy my PC, here's the current situation. (Only listing parts going to change)

Processor: Intel Q6600 Stock: 2.4Ghz Running at: 3.2Ghz - 8MB Cache
RAM: 4GB OCZ 800Mhz Gold Edition DDR2
GFX: NVidia XFX 8800GTX
Motherboard: Gigabyte P41 Chipset
CPU Cooler: Arctic Pro 7 Cooler (Rev 1)

Here's what I would have if I sold him the PC and bought the parts for a new one

Processor: Intel Q9950 Stock: 2.83Ghz Overclocking I'm not sure - 12MB Cache
RAM: 4GB OCZ 1066Mhz Gold Edition DDR2
GFX: XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890
Motherboard: Gigabyte P45 Chipset
CPU Cooler: Arctic Pro 7 Cooler (Rev 2)

I can upgrade all these things for the total of:

£50
1 x Kaspersky Anti-Virus License (£8)
1 x Western Digital 640GB Blue (£40)

Total Upgrade Cost: £98.

The way I'm doing this is selling my friend my components in a new case with a spare HDD and Kaspersky, my question is, is it worth spending £98 on? Will I actually see much difference in performance but most importantly, is there much point? Nothing really utilises half this stuff yet anyway.

Much Appreciated!
 
Worth it in my opinion, going from an 8800GTX to a 4890 is a massive upgrade. Plus with the faster CPU, RAM I see no reason why not to at all.
 
The only reason I've come up with so far is that if I make my friend a PC instead by buying all the parts from Overclockers, I would make a profit of about £70.

So I can spend £98 and have this upgrade, or make £70...
 
There will be some difference but the question is if you need it.
Like you said most stuff doesn't even utilise what you have already ( maybe apart from GPU change).

I'd look for just a GPU change and/or SSD if you havn't got one yet if you have cash to spare. Q6600 has still plenty of juice in it.
 
Problem is I would still need to buy a quad core, and there's only a £20 difference between the 9950 and the lower spec quads. So if I was going to buy it, I might aswell swap the processors over, increasing the stock speed by .43 Ghz and the cache by 4MB seems good for £20 :/
 
Sell the q6600 + P31 board - yes
Buy another s775 CPU and board - NO

Either do it properly or don't bother. And i'm not saying 'don't bother' is a bad option either.
 
UPDATE!

after doing some jigging around, I now have the option to upgrade to an i7 system with gigabyte motherboard, 920 i7, 6GB DDR3 1600Mhz and ATI 4890. All in for £120 plus my spare 640GB Western Digital HDD and a copy of Kaspersky.

Worth the upgrade from the quad system listed above?
 
Redgie said:
UPDATE!

after doing some jigging around, I now have the option to upgrade to an i7 system with gigabyte motherboard, 920 i7, 6GB DDR3 1600Mhz and ATI 4890. All in for £120 plus my spare 640GB Western Digital HDD and a copy of Kaspersky.

Worth the upgrade from the quad system listed above?
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I would definately go for it, as previously mentioned the jump to the 4890 alone would be worth it :D
 
SpAceD said:
Ahhhh, the glorious "selling of your parts to mates" to fund upgrades. :D
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I'm still giving him an amazing price on my stuff...sort of :) But I'm building and fitting for free, and giving them a free kaspersky :)


Thanks guys, think I'm gunna go ahead with it, can't wait for my i7 now!
 
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