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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Its gonna be expensive if you plan to go PCI-E. You need to replace almost everything.
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I can vouch for that.
I spent a couple of weeks recently checking out computer stuff due to my old machine feeling a bit long in the tooth:
- AMD XP2800+
- Gigabyte NL700 mopbo (or something)
- 1GB RAM (generic)
- Antec 400w PSU
- Maxtor 160GB IDE HD (E) Maxtor 80GB IDE HD (C)
- XFX Geforce 6800GT 256MB grafix card (AGP).
After much thought I stuck with AMD...
- Athlon 64 X2 3800+ cpu (for now).
- Asus M2N32-sli-dlx nforce590 PCI-E DDR2 (socket AM2) mobo.
- Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TWINX ram.
- Hiper HPU-4M670 TYPE-R 670W ATX2.2 psu.
- Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250FO SATAII 16MB CACHE hd. (plus my old E drive as backup/storage etc)
- BFG GEFORCE 7950GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DUAL DVI PCI-E grafix card.
- vented side panel for my Akasa Eclipse 62 case and some assorted cables.
It's not an uber setup, but it does leave me with some room for improvement over the next year or two; i.e more/better RAM, better cpu, another grafix card to run two together maybe.
I thought about the conroe intel thing but decided to stick with amd as I'm familliar with their stuff
. In total I spent roughtly the same amount on this machine as I did almost 4 years ago on my original pc... so I'm happy with that. Keeping up with the jones' in the world of 'puters is a fools game - you end up buying all new stuff every few months
nice idea, but muchos expensivo.
All told I guess it was the better part of 8-900 quid. It was worth it though as I have a swanky bit of kit that ought to last through a couple of hardware upgrades in the next couple of years.
As far as AMD is comcerned socket AM2 is probably the way forward, however you can get some bargains with single core 64bit processors on socket 939 mobo's due to them nolonger being a continued line. So if you don't mind some outdated kit then the single core AMD 64's could be a good way to go.
Then there's this Intel conroe thing if you want to go for the latest fastest thing...