philgr

Posted on behalf of a friend.
Current PC as follows,
PII 550,
512meg 133 RAM
Geforce Pro
40gig HD
What he is after is an increase in performace for Games playing, His current games of choice are Counterstrike , RTCW, & MOHAA, he is currently experiencing slowdowns when playing,
Budget avail for upgrade is approx £250
Come on Guys help him out !

Regards
Phil G

IanW

The Memory and HDD should be good still, have a look at an AMD Athlon XP motherboard and CPU.

This should improve performace during the game play.

Steve Perriam

i paid £150 for an athalon xp1700+, 95 for a m/b for it. (incl VAT)

your ram should be ok in the new m/b.

and u could get a lesser chip than a 1700 and prob a cheaper motherboard to ?

mega_stream

Have a look on www.ebyer.com

Cheap AMD chips.

ChrisB

Be aware that some of the newer Athlon boards use DDR RAM rather than PC133 SDRAM, so choose the mobo with caution.

DominicA

Just bought an Athlon bundle from aria.co.uk 1333mhz (266fsb), ECS K7s5a Mb, Globalwin FOP32-1 H/S + FAN with 256MB DDR for.....

£190 all in

And it all works well.... the MB is a Sis735 chipset and will run ALL the current XP chips....

DominicA

This board will also run the PC133 RAM if you wanted (not at the same time as the DDR stuff tho)... remember he'll need a good 300W PS if he's going athlon route.....

ChrisB

Argh... SIS... Nooooo

DominicA

ChrisB LOL

Tiggs

got my AMD 1700xp from CCL for £120ish

philgr

BTTT

Katana

www.dabs.com or www.scan.com

This is the two places I buy PC parts from...

ebyer screwed with me once to many times by being late or parts that broke way too soon (like DIMMS). Dabs is the best choice for me because somehow, my parts always arrive the next day...



[Edited by Katana - 1/26/2002 10:19:39 PM]

Scotty Boy

www1.novatech.co.uk/NOVATECH/Home.html

www.overclockers.co.uk

also reliable sites, with good bundle packages that should meet your budget