New Card & ram

[Wab]

OK On my way back to the UK for 5 days in n 2 weeks time and I wanna upgrade my ram and GFX card.

The card I have now is the 6800LE with all pipes opened and I have 1.5GB Kingston value Ram

Want 2 GB Dual ram and a graphics card that will last me a few years running games at pretty much top level (not SLI as don't want to replace MOBO)

My mobo is the new Asrock dual sata.will OC the ram and card so needs to be good stuff, and I play PC games

Ok any advice would be great - also wher to buy at best price wanna spend no more than £300 ish

 

[FragTek]

Errr... Spending over 300 is going to be necessary if you want good ram and a vid card that will "last you a few years".

If you were going to do it right I would suggest an x1900xtx and 2gb of Mushkin Redline or some nice G.Skill, Geil, OCZ, or Crucial in the high end department.

Id be prepared to drop at least 4-500.

 

[Tec]

Well for 300 as Fragtek said you cant buy a decent card that can play top level in few years time as well as 2gb ram to overclock. if your budget is really tight get a Geil value ram 2gb for around £100 i think and Sapphire Ati Radeon x800GTO2 (£120 ) and unlock that and overclock it ( Might wanna check if new cards can be unlocked and overclocked ). Tough u wont have shader 3 and all the fancy image settings but as in speed it should last you for few years. Of course depends what you call top level tbh

 

[Ham]

I don't know about ram but how about the Leadtek 7800GT?

 

[Dav0s]

yeah, £200 for a 7800GT

and you can get decent 2gb kits for just over £150, kemp will know more about the pricing. i'll have a little look around for ya.

 

[FarFarAway]

Yeah you can get some nice GSklill PC4000 for £150 over at overclockers.co.uk for around $145ish. And a 7800GT is good for £200

 

[chudley]

Doesn't the country you are in now sell decent PC stuff? If not you may be able to get it tax free if you live there more than 6 months of the year and order it from amazon or somewhere, and that should help keep the cost low.

 

[Wab]

You gotta be joking Im in Spain at the moment and everything here is a year or 2 behind and over priced

Good idea about the tax As I have lived here about 2 .8years now

Looking at this ram?

OCZ 2GB DDR2 667 CL4.0 DUAL CHANNEL GOLD GX XTC

Memory>>DDR2

Type : DDR2 667

Size : 2GB (2x1GB)

PR Rating : PC5400

CAS Latency : CL4.0

Model number: OCZ26672048ELGEGXT-K

Weight: 0.1Kg

£152.31 (Ex VAT)

How good is it and will it work with my set up

 

[Ham]

DDR2 dosn't work with any of the current AMD CPUs i don't think.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Nope, DDR2 doesn't work with the 939 platform. Upcoming AM2 platform will have support though

 

[Wab]

ram - must buy today

OCZ 2GB DDR400 CL2.0 DUAL CHANNEL GOLD GX XTC RET

Click to enlarge Product Information

Quick Find #: 904

£155.27 £182.44 inc vat

what about this ..and no anywhere cheaper ... just bought the G15 KEYBOARD from Komplett.co.uk

have to buy ram today as I leave for england 2morrow

 

[FarFarAway]

Looks pretty good stuff mate. OCZ always makes good RAM IMHO

 

[Wab]

Looks pretty good stuff mate. OCZ always makes good RAM IMHO

cheers for reply,

any ideas on something better or cheaper :0

 

[WC Annihilus]

Would help if you would tell us where you're ordering from so would could look around. Unless you don't really care where you order from. Here's a review of those sticks...: 3200 XTC Kit Review at Overclockers Online

 

[Wab]

Would help if you would tell us where you're ordering from so would could look around. Unless you don't really care where you order from. Here's a review of those sticks...: [URL="http://www.overclockersonline.com/index.php?page=articles&num=339"']3200 XTC Kit Review at Overclockers Online[/URL]

MMMM y send me a USA link when Im in the UK as the first post in this thread pointed out

 

[FarFarAway]

This is good stuff:

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_5261.html

Very cheap and guaranteed DDR500:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=291360

some nice Mushkin:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Mushkin.html

 

[WC Annihilus]

I know you're in the UK, I'm just pointing out a review man, not a price. Just giving you an idea of what that kit can do. For the Corsair stuff, what results I've seen have bee quite good, with average of 270-280 and a few who could hit 290 and even 300. Course there were a few bad kits that could only get 255-265, but it's always a gamble anyway. To give you an idea of what each kit can do, see this thread

7th and 8th post for results of Corsair stuff

You can just look around here for plenty of results on all different types of RAM

 

[Wab]

This is good stuff:

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_5261.html

Very cheap and guaranteed DDR500:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=291360

some nice Mushkin:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Mushkin.html

Of those 3 and the OCZ ones which would you buy as for the mushkins ones I would only buy the

The Mushkin Extreme Performance Black Series as the other is a tad expensive.

so of the 4 above I need a winner :yumyum:

 

[Wab]

I know you're in the UK, I'm just pointing out a review man, not a price. Just giving you an idea of what that kit can do. For the Corsair stuff, what results I've seen have bee quite good, with average of 270-280 and a few who could hit 290 and even 300. Course there were a few bad kits that could only get 255-265, but it's always a gamble anyway. To give you an idea of what each kit can do, see this thread

7th and 8th post for results of Corsair stuff

You can just look around here for plenty of results on all different types of RAM

aye sorry mate my bad and thanks for info

 

[WC Annihilus]

If you want well proven stuff, go for the Mushkins or G.Skill. Consistent 270 and frequently go to 280 and sometimes 290. Corsair normally has a fairly bad reputation for OC, but from what little I've seen, that kit does well. Still a large unknown though