Upgrade advice required

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Hodgstar

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Hi all,

seems about time I upgraded this old hunk so I after a bit of advice.I am looking at a new mobe, cpu and memory.

I don't think i7 or ddr3 will fit my budget (£250 to £350), so I'm thinking core 2 quad, with 4Gb of decent ram not sure about a mobo but i was concidering an ASUS PQ5 but there are so many different ones varients I am at a loss!

thanks in advance for all advice.
 
Id go for a q6600, some ocz ram and a biostar p45 motherboard, they're awesome and only around £90...
 
Your pretty much set at a Core 2, DDR2 and P45 mobo. Just what ever tickles your fancy brand wise.

I'd go for the DFI P45 T2RS Plus and 4GB of Crucial Ballistix myself. CPU wise either a Q6600 or E84/500 depending if you want multi thread or a higher clock.
 
Yea I also would suggest the E8400 or the quad core,you really can't go wrong with either it just depends what you want.

If you play a lot of console ported games like GTA then the quad core would be the best performance for ya as they seem to like the extra cores more over the speed.

I went with the E8400 and Asus P5Q pro a few months back for myself and really love it. I would say you would be fine with the pro or the deluxe model of the board if that's what you want if your going to be overclocking.
 
Phenom II is released on Thursday so you may wish to take a look at that. Not sure on pricing but the early indications are that it is in the same ballpark as Yorkfield performance wise.

What do you use your computer for?
 
Thanks for the replies so far guys,

I currently use my computer for Gaming. COD4, COD WaW, Assasinns Creed, and other FPS style games.

I intend to keep using my 1950XTX maybe in crossfire if i can get the slave sorted out.

I have also been into water cooling and overclocking/ benching in the past and may well dabble at this again in the future.

I don't know what would perform better for me Quad core or the higher clocks?!?
 
name='Hodgstar' said:
Thanks for the replies so far guys,

I currently use my computer for Gaming. COD4, COD WaW, Assasinns Creed, and other FPS style games.

I intend to keep using my 1950XTX maybe in crossfire if i can get the slave sorted out.

I have also been into water cooling and overclocking/ benching in the past and may well dabble at this again in the future.

I don't know what would perform better for me Quad core or the higher clocks?!?
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If its mainly games then the 8400 would do you proud :D
 
An E8400 is still a good choice for games particularly current games although there are a few games coming out now that scale better across cores.

An overclocked E5200 is also a good option and considerably cheaper than the E8400.
 
It's hard to argue with any of the comments. The dual core would be more than fine in the gaming environment as game developers in the main don't exactly know what cores are all about yet.

But if u were doing loads of office/compacting/media/recording/web/rendering/gaming and running 3 firewalls, 4 antivirus (or just norton) from the desktop, a quad would bring less pauses to ur everyday use :D
 
name='Hodgstar' said:
an 8400 would out perform a quad 6600 in games?????

or are you just trying to save me money??
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An E8400 has a 45nm wolfdale core and runs at a stock freuency of 3GHz, a Q6600 has an older Kentsfield core and runs at a stock frequency of 2.4GHz. Even when overclocked the E8400 will clock up to 4GHz or beyond depending on the chip where the Q6600 will clock up to 3GHz or beyond depending on the chip. The only advantage the Q6600 has is two extra cores. For applications that don't use those extra cores such as games the E8400 will come out on top everytime.

The only games I am aware of that make good use of a quad are UT3 and GTA IV.
 
if the newer games perform better on the quad would I not be (don't all laugh at once) "more Future Proof" with a quad???
 
I would be ecstatic to be able to exclaim YES!

However, a number of years ago, we all probably would have said that yes it's a great idea... then kept saying it.. then the years past..

Right now I could only really say - theoretically it's a good idea. Whether game devs will get the education, who knows. They're making cash pedaling their software as it is, it performs as fast as their imagination with a single core cpu.
 
As quads become more "mainstream" rather than an enthusist toy I think game developers will become more serious about supporting them and that is a process that is slowly happening. By the end of the year we will have Core i7, Core i5 and Phenom II Quads in the gaming marketplace.

Think back to the transistion from single core to dual core.
 
The Intel chipsets are P45 and X48.

If you get an MSI, Gigiabyte or Asus you probably can't go wrong. The cost of the motherboard is really determined by the amount of features crammed in.
 
name='tonpal' said:
The Intel chipsets are P45 and X48.

If you get an MSI, Gigiabyte or Asus you probably can't go wrong. The cost of the motherboard is really determined by the amount of features crammed in.
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I meant X48

I want a good overclocker , but I am quite happy to change / mod heatsinks etc if required.

I will be using ATI XTX1950 graphics cards in crossfire.

Not bothered about wifi as i will be using an ethernet cable to connect to my router.

Not bothered about sound as I will use my X-fi xtreme gamer sound card.
 
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