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semlethe3rd   12-09-2007 at 09:28:33 PM

I was wondering if it would be worth buying new cpu/motherboard/ram with only $500 to spend. I may be able to go slightly over $500 especially if I sell my old parts. My current setup is:

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-60 Dual Core Processor (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Motherboard: 939Dual-VSTA
Memory: 2014MB RAM

1. Will be used for gaming.
2.$500-$550
3.USA
4.Was AMD-fanboy but looking towards intel.
5.Can still use 500watt powersupply,case, and 8800GT
6.I have been searching through threads.
7. I may overclock slightly but nothing to intense.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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chookman   12-09-2007 at 11:33:33 PM
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IMO dont do it...

looks like you use this box for gaming mostly... getting say a Q6600 mobo and ~4gb ram isnt going to improve your games all that much atm... save your money and wait for either new penryns and new highend GPU's and buy a new rig ... or if you can hold off nehalem should be awesome.

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nightscope   12-09-2007 at 11:55:58 PM
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Yeah man what you have at the moment is pretty good and it's a waste to upgrade. Just use what you've got and wait for the next big thing (like chookman suggested).

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Dejunai   12-10-2007 at 12:43:05 AM
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I also agree,

With your current setup, as a gamer, until you must upgrade your GPU to a GPU that wont fit your MoBo, there is no need to upgrade further...

Some Quick and Easy tips for performance increases follow:

[1] Separate your OS drive from your Game drive...
( keeps the OS from doing a background task that stalls your in game experience ) ( make the game drive the fastest interface you have )
[2] Max out your RAM as available/appropriate...
[3] Upgrade the PSU only if a new Video Card requires it.
[4] Create a partition on your fastest non-game drive at 4GB ( 4128MB ) and set it to the only VM on your system, never use it for any other purpose... Even if buying a new additional HDD is required. ( Most people dont buy into this theory, but it has proven time and time again to me to be helpful... )
[5] And of course max out your MoBo to the top CPU possible.

These choices should keep you budget conscience... Until you have the $1250+ to do a full and significant upgrade to the base architecture.

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semlethe3rd   12-10-2007 at 01:04:14 AM
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Well i knew my cpu was a little older, but I was more concerned about my memory. Being on a 939 socket mobo, I'm still running older ddr memory. Do you think upgrading everything.. having a little faster cpu and memory would help me that much?

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sharp910sh   12-10-2007 at 02:37:31 PM
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chookman wrote :

IMO dont do it...

looks like you use this box for gaming mostly... getting say a Q6600 mobo and ~4gb ram isnt going to improve your games all that much atm... save your money and wait for either new penryns and new highend GPU's and buy a new rig ... or if you can hold off nehalem should be awesome.




Penryns is for mobile pc, ie laptop not desktop.


but yer there is no need to upgrade

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chookman   12-10-2007 at 11:52:36 PM
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sharp910sh wrote :

Penryns is for mobile pc, ie laptop not desktop.


but yer there is no need to upgrade



Wolfdale or Yorkfield then... around here most have been lumping the whole arch under the penryn name.


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