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My 24/7 main PC recently decided to fail on me (AthlonXP 3000+, SoYo KT400 Platinum MoBo, 1Gb OCZ PC3500 in a PC-7 Case), it won't boot unless I set it to 12x 133 (Usually 16x if I remember correctly)...

As it's my birthday soon, the GF has pledge me up to £500 for system upgrades, I want reliability, stability and quietness in the whole (PC is in living room). I would love to go with water cooling but think this will have to wait (XMas maybe ). I have four ATA drives that I would like to use and three optical drives that are not AS vital to the system (Not all anyway), would also like SATA as a future upgrade.

I am not a gamer really but like to have power on hand when needed and think I am going to have to upgrade the GF3 Ti500 that is still doing all I want it to (AGP boards don't seem to offer as much choice). Onboard sound is fine, need plenty of USB ports, not bothered about firewire and at least one COM port would be required.

Could any of you PC Guru's out there perhaps recommend me a CPU/MoBo/GPU combo that would give me a noticable jump in peformance but not go over my budget?

TIA...D-an-W

saxperience

Dell seem to be selling cheap deals at the moment. Saves the hassle of building and setting up your own system.

You could get alot for £500!

saxperience

Sorry, didnt see you wanted to 'upgrade'

lightning101

Athlon 64 bit 4200 dual core socket 939 £193+vat

^^ You cant use AM2 with your existing memory.

Asus A8N SLi motherboard - 10 USB2 Raid etc etc £62.08 + vat

7900GT Graphics Card £178+vat



£516 inc vat and delivery

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iTrader: (1)

DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ / 2.2 GHz Dual-Core - Socket 939 - L2 2 MB (2 x 1 MB)

ASUS Extreme N7300GS/HTD - Graphics adapter - GF 7300 GS - PCI Express - 256 MB DDR II - Digital Visual Interface (DVI) - HDTV Out

Thats a list I came up with, where did you get your prices from m8y?

Thanks too

lightning101

www.ebuyer.co.uk

lightning101

That 7300 is only a 64 bit graphics card and couldn't cut the skin off a rice pudding

Its worth £20 tops.

Daz34

ATI X1800XT now around £140+vat as well

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iTrader: (1)

Yeah, I wasn't wanting gaming GFX's just something to "Get me going" (Currently use a GF3 Ti500!), you recommend a slightly better one on a budget?

lightning101

X800GTO2 £105 inc vat

Make sure it is the '2' version as it has all 16 pipelines unlocked and the same memory and chips ans the X850XT PE

It also comes with the software to clock it to the same rate on stock cooling.

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Tnx, will take a look (EBuyer again I assume?)

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BTTT now Conroe is out...Anyone used one yet and recommend me a system including one for approx £500 (CPU/MoBo/GFX/RAM)