Your Help needed with upgrade advice

[Barts76]

Hi there.

I want to upgrade my current desktop, trouble is i'm a bit overwhelmed with all the proccessors, ram speeds etc, i built my system 4-5 years ago and haven't kept up to date since.

My current set up is amd athlon 4200 x2 with a gig of ram and windows xp me. and a geforce 8800gt, i currently use my system for games mostly and web browsing, and the occasional music download.

I basically need a new CPU, RAM, and new MOBO. and possibly a new graphics card, but i think the one i have is currently not too bad.i have no idea whether to go for a quad core, or stick with dual core, and what ram i would need for the latest games

my budget without a graphics card is upto 300 quid. Thanks for any help and advice you may be able to give

 

[jak731]

im assuming your HDDs and PSU are also 4-5 years old, so i included those into the spec, since a hdd from 4-5 years ago will be a major bottleneck compared to drives today.

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £56.99
(£65.54) £56.99
(£65.54)
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS) £54.99
(£63.24) £54.99
(£63.24)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £53.99
(£62.09) £53.99
(£62.09)
Seasonic Silverpower 500W Power Supply £49.99
(£57.49) £49.99
(£57.49)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500 Gold Edition 4GB Dual Channel (OCZ2G10664GK) £37.99
(£43.69) £37.99
(£43.69)
Sub Total : £253.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.99
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £39.44
Total : £302.38

 

[Barts76]

sorry, i think i must have made a bit of exageration when i said 4-5 years old, i built it when the amd athlon 64 dual core 4200 came out, so possibly 4 years ago at a stretch.

my psu is a 550v and i have a maxtor 250gig HDD which isn't past the 100gig of usage yet