Hi All,
I'm looking for a minimal $ upgrade to my current (and quite old) PC.
What I have right now is:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz
MB: Gygabyte 939 socket
RAM: 2GB DDR2
GPU: Nvidia 8600GT DDR3
At this point my system does run all of the more/lessthe modern games (Fallout3, AVP, STALKER), but clearly not in high details. But I do lack the multi core capability in day-to-day life and Starcraft 2 is about to be launched...
So, I was thinking, is there any way I can reuse some of what I already have, to maximize the boost/$ coefficient. Maybe get some x2 core CPU for 939 socket (if such thing exists at all) whould that do any good to my system?
Maybe reuse the memory I have. And I sure do hope I wil be able to use my GPU (it sure isn't top of the line, but it's not too bad either).
Any comments are welcome.
I'm looking for a minimal $ upgrade to my current (and quite old) PC.
What I have right now is:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz
MB: Gygabyte 939 socket
RAM: 2GB DDR2
GPU: Nvidia 8600GT DDR3
At this point my system does run all of the more/lessthe modern games (Fallout3, AVP, STALKER), but clearly not in high details. But I do lack the multi core capability in day-to-day life and Starcraft 2 is about to be launched...
So, I was thinking, is there any way I can reuse some of what I already have, to maximize the boost/$ coefficient. Maybe get some x2 core CPU for 939 socket (if such thing exists at all) whould that do any good to my system?
Maybe reuse the memory I have. And I sure do hope I wil be able to use my GPU (it sure isn't top of the line, but it's not too bad either).
Any comments are welcome.