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12-01-2007, 08:48 AM
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| Cisco Techie  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: 88.109.186.176
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 |  Upgrading Is now a good time to upgrade my socket 939 athlon system? Im gonna keep my 8600GT and upgrade to a 8800GT when the prices come down in the UK, what i am planning to is: i have an old packard bell computer but the motherboard has seen better days, im gonna remove that mobo and put my mobo in which has a athlon 3800+, 2GB DDR and onboard graphics, for christmas im getting these parts which i will put in my current case: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ CPU - Cheap at Ebuyer! Asus M2N-E SLI Nvidia nForce 500 SLI MCP Socket AM2 8channel audio ATX Motherboard - Ebuyer Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL4(4-4-4-12) E.P.P. Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty - Ebuyer Thermaltake TR2 500W PSU 12cm Fan 12vATX 20+4pin - Ebuyer Use current 8600GT all good?
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12-01-2007, 11:48 AM
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| Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2005
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 |  Re: Upgrading Gaming? It looks decent.. Its your money so you can decide Intel vs. AMD, BUt ppl are going to come into this thread and try to bash you for choosing AMD... Looks pretty solid to me..
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12-01-2007, 11:54 AM
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| Super Techie  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London, UK
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| Re: Upgrading hi mate. how much cash can you splurge out on this? 
__________________ Gaming Rig Intel Core 2 E6600 @ 3Ghz -Upgrade- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro 25C/35C Asus P5N-D Nforce 750i 1333FSB Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB DDR2 800MHz -Upgrade- Crucial Ballistix Tracer RED 2x2GB 800Mhz 2x SataII, 2x IDE Total = 1.1Tb EVGA 8800GTS 512mb 'Crysis Edition' @ 750/1900/2000 Onboard Realtek 8.1 Sound Jazzy! Hiper Type-R 580w -Upgrade- Gigabyte ODIN GT 800W Modded iCute -Upgrade- Antec 900 19" Iiyama CRT -NEXT Upgrade!- Samsung SM-T260HD 26" w/ Digital TV Tuner / Samsung SM-T240 24" 3DMark06 Score- 13k |
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12-01-2007, 12:10 PM
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| Wizard Techie Join Date: Aug 2005
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| Re: Upgrading Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 Socket 775 2.4GHz (800MHz) L2 2MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor - Ebuyer MSI P31 Neo-F iP31 Socket 775 8 channel audio PCI-E ATX Motherboard - Ebuyer E4600 have much more overclocking potential than 5600+ And even if you don't overclock E4600 would be similar to the performance of 5600+ at stock Here is a review for E4600 Legion Hardware
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12-01-2007, 12:24 PM
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| Master of the Donkeypunch  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: your mom's house
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| Re: Upgrading i would go with a 5000+ black edition if you are going to stick with AMD. AMD Black Edition Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Socket AM2 2.6GHz Energy Efficient L2 1MB (2x512KB) Retail Boxed Processor - Note does not include heatsink or fan - Ebuyer its cheaper than the 5600 and the e4600, and should overclock like a beast. e4600 will be faster, though. especially if it will overclock well. i dont know which consumes less power, i cant find any consumption charts on the e4600.
__________________  q9450~3.75 very fast ghz~~asus P5Q Deluxe~~2 x 2gb OCZ reaper 1066~ ~Sapphire HD4870 1gb~  * folding rig * AMD x2 3600 : 2gb OCZ ddr2 800 : EVGA 8800gts 512 : Asus M3A78-EM 780g Last edited by Nagasama; 12-01-2007 at 12:34 PM. |
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12-01-2007, 12:25 PM
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| Cisco Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: 88.109.186.176
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| Re: Upgrading hmm ill think about the intel option but i want to get a Sli mobo just incase  are these respected 775 mobos? ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 eSATA 8channel Audio ATX Motherboard - Ebuyer one other thing which kinda sucks is i wont have enough money for either CPU so im probarbly now looking at a 4400+ :S
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12-01-2007, 12:28 PM
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| Kudos/Post Count Padder  Join Date: Dec 2006
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| Re: Upgrading yes Asus p5k's are good... and its not the VM so its good
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12-01-2007, 12:53 PM
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| Super Techie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London, UK
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| Re: Upgrading save your cash from xmas and upgrade in january.
__________________ Gaming Rig Intel Core 2 E6600 @ 3Ghz -Upgrade- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro 25C/35C Asus P5N-D Nforce 750i 1333FSB Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB DDR2 800MHz -Upgrade- Crucial Ballistix Tracer RED 2x2GB 800Mhz 2x SataII, 2x IDE Total = 1.1Tb EVGA 8800GTS 512mb 'Crysis Edition' @ 750/1900/2000 Onboard Realtek 8.1 Sound Jazzy! Hiper Type-R 580w -Upgrade- Gigabyte ODIN GT 800W Modded iCute -Upgrade- Antec 900 19" Iiyama CRT -NEXT Upgrade!- Samsung SM-T260HD 26" w/ Digital TV Tuner / Samsung SM-T240 24" 3DMark06 Score- 13k |
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12-01-2007, 01:26 PM
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| MetalHead Techie  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minnesota
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| Re: Upgrading better dual cores will come out that would go great with your build idk if there are budget ones like the e2*** series tho
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