Worth upgrading

Beerbaron · 22 Dec 2006 at 09:04

As work is so dead today i am going to try and spec me an upgrade for sometime in the new year. The machine will mainly be for gaming. I will have between £750-£1000 to spend. I'll be looking for a psu, mobo, cpu and graphics. It has been a long time since the last upgrade. My first question is, is it worth me upgrading at this time or is it worth waiting?

Ive always been an Amd guy but have read some good things lately and may go for intel. Are more people moving over to intel?

clv101 · 22 Dec 2006 at 09:14

Beerbaron said:
As work is so dead today i am going to try and spec me an upgrade for sometime in the new year. The machine will mainly be for gaming. I will have between £750-£1000 to spend. I'll be looking for a psu, mobo, cpu and graphics. It has been a long time since the last upgrade. My first question is, is it worth me upgrading at this time or is it worth waiting?

Ive always been an Amd guy but have read some good things lately and may go for intel. Are more people moving over to intel?

Worth waiting? There'll always be the next best thing or price cuts just around the corner. Me? I'm waiting until mid-Feb for an upgrade to pick up Vista at the same time.

For that kind of money and for gaming I wouldn't look at AMD. I'd base it around the E6600 CPU, 8800 GTS, Corsair HX 620W and an Intel 975 motherboard. Do you not need new RAM?

Beerbaron · 22 Dec 2006 at 09:47

yeah oops. Ive got 1gb (2*256 and 1*512) ocz platinum and kingston pc4000... i think

i wasnt sure if there was anything going to be released early new year.

clv101 · 22 Dec 2006 at 10:02

Ah - You'll really want to be looking at 2GB of DDR2, PC5300 or PC6400 if planning more serious overclocking.

Beerbaron · 22 Dec 2006 at 10:09

yeah definately, i wasnt looking at anything less than 2gb. will probably do a little overclocking. my xp2500 is currently running at 2.2Ghz.

Beerbaron · 22 Dec 2006 at 15:34

Ive made a quick list, will probably change it when i actually get around to buying it. so here goes;

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £215.01 inc VAT

Asus P5W64-WS Pro Intel 975X (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £187.99 inc VAT

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Titanium EPP-Ready Edition DDR2 (OCZ2T8002GK) £193.86 inc VAT

Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Black UV £64.61 inc VAT

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £299.61 inc VAT

TOTAL: £961.08

What do you think?