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07-11-2006, 02:56 PM
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2006
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|  upgrading on a budget hi i am interested in upgrading my pc for gaming and photoshop type work I am from the uk but i put my buget into a currency converter and i have about $480 (£260) to spend on a new pc I want to upgrade my cpu, RAM, motherboard and my psu (my other components are fine) I would preffer to go amd rather than intel please could you give me a good upgrade route...  |
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07-11-2006, 03:11 PM
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| On deployment  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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| Slightly more expensive, but worth it... Barebones kit http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...bb-a37615b&P=1 - 181.81 Video Card http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?BFG-76GS - 72.00 RAM http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?RAM-40/512 - 25.00 |
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07-12-2006, 03:10 AM
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| Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 326
| im not familiar with prices over there but try a thermaltakeor antec psu and if u want to do ocing go for an msi mobo if not then gigabyte also an athlon 3500+ should be okay and 1gb of corsair select has served me well
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07-12-2006, 04:25 AM
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| Monster Techie Join Date: Jul 2005
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| that agp video card is gonna limit what you can get. because of the agp card, you will have to stick to socket 939 or earlier, and because of that, you'll have to stick with DDR ram and not DDR2 ram... i can show you how you can get a new video card and still be able to get quality parts with that budget... http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/111285/rb/20376392614 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/110732 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/63626 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/101478 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/90615 thats $308.75 total INCLUDING VAT. don't let the video card limit ALL your components...
__________________ No CPU No RAM Seagate 200GB 7200rpm 8mb No Video Card MSI K8N Neo4-F Socket 939 (currently getting RMA\'ed..) X-530 Audigy 2 Value |
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07-12-2006, 04:33 AM
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| Admin Das BanHammer  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South
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| Nice combo, aliasaid... even if it is an ATI.
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07-12-2006, 04:38 AM
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| On deployment Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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| Barebones kit http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...l?bb-a8vmx&P=1 - 191.65 RAM http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?RAM-40/512 - 25.00 and later on you can upgrade the PSU/video card... Generic PSU's in general stink, but you won't be pulling that much juice... or you could throw this in for an extra 42.00 http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...html?ENE-EL400 That's 258.00 total. |
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