Been think about upgrading my old athlon 4600+ system for a while now. It has a twin nvidia 6600gt, 4 gb ram. It runs windows 7 ultimate quite well but it has been giving blue screen of death error very frequently(unexpected clock interrupt from the secondary processor).

Anyhow I was reading about these new sandy bridge processors with inboard hd3000 graphic an was wondering if it would be as fast as my twin 6600gt card. If I can get away without forking out for an up to date graphics card it will keep the cost down.

I will need a new 1155 main board, processor, CPU fan, new ram, and was thinking of a small ssd for my windows installation.

I dont play games at all, just surf, burn the odd DVD, stream a load of **** to my 50 inch plasma via my media box, iTunes, sync my blackberry and android phone, that's about it.

So my questions are

1. Anyone any experience with hd3000
2. Have I forgotten anything in my upgrade

 

if you decide to get rid of your old ram let me know neil

 

Hi there these CPU are fast and very good for overclockers(on my friend running 4.9ghz),about the GPU Intel HD3000,if you not gamer,these GPU will fast as your old(and in some games still fast as Ati HD5450)
Here is good review
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...2000-3000.html

And about the components,you will need DDR3 and i would recommend Corsair XMS3(i've run these XMS3 1600Mhz)still are for good money and very good also for overclocking
Motherboard you will need new one,Asus are my favorite,but Gigabyte also good..
HDD you may go for SSD,but if not go for good WD Black or Blue edition/Samsung are also good


Jura

 

There are 2 versions of this chip, the locked version and the unlocked version.
Basically if you want to overclock then you need the unlocked version, then there are 2 chipsets available to you, the H67 and the P67, the latter is the one you need if going for the unlocked chip otherwise the H67 will do.

Tony