That time of the year - upgrade my machine!! - Page 2

# 16 19-07-2005 , 04:42 PM

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F%$* !!!

Thankfully its a typo

Overclockers sell it for £140

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# 17 19-07-2005 , 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by matt4068
... whats ur current cpu? ...

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I currently have an AthlonXP running at 2.8, more than enough for me at the moment.

The bottom line is this, I'm in dire need to reinstall windows, my hdd is about to fail and windows is completley 'on its arse'. My 1 gig of ram has now become 512 since one stick was damaged and is worthless, and finally my GPU is ok but im am seeing some lag in games such as GTA:SA. I would love to be able to crank up the settings play at really decent resolution.

The windows reinstall needs to be asap, and as such it seems such a waste of time to rebuild it, then buy some more parts (key to this point - motherboard) in a few months then rebuild it all over again.

I just thought that getting decent stuff now would keep my going for 12-18 months.

Are the upcoming new technologies completly radical and provide so much upgrade that its worth working with a 'hunk a junk' for 6+ months?

p.s. I would much rather upgrade sooner and have control over backing up my C drive, rather than have the drive fail on me in 2 months time losing all my data. For me the change has to be soon, even tho the new tech is just around the corner.

pps - agreed, cool typo :bandit:

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# 18 19-07-2005 , 05:58 PM

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Socket A

Abit AN7 nForce2 (Socket A) £44.95
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 (Socket A) £44.95

Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) £139.95
Connect3D ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) £179.95

GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC4000 Ultra Platinum CAS2.5 £89.95
Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200XL Platinum TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 £114.95

Overclocks.co.uk (You need to add vat)

Socket 939

Abit AN8-V nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard £59.95
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail £124.95
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC4000 Ultra Platinum CAS2.5 £89.95
Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6800 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) £154.95

Overclockers.co.uk (add the vat)

Plus Harddrive and better PSU for both. You could add :-

Maxtor OneTouch™ II 200GB External Firewire/USB 2.0 Hard Drive £111.95

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Last edited by Tubby; 19-07-2005 at 06:02 PM.

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