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 Post Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:04 pm 
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Going to be building meself one once exams are finished (a few weeks) - hows this look?

Case - Antec Sonata II w/450W PSU
Mobo - Asus A8N5X
CPU - AMD A64 3200 S939
RAM - Corsiar 2x512mb Matched XMS
Graphics - XFX 7600GT
Sound - Creative Audigy SE 7.1 OEM
HDD - Maxtor 250GB 16MB S300
Optical - LG all singing all dancing
FD - Sony
Screen - LG 1740PQ
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£714.00 Inc shipping.

For about £40 I can upgrade to AM2 and DDR2 - is it worth it?

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 Post Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:47 pm 
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i'd say yeah if its only £40 newer technology, your bound to see some type of difference compared to what your getting at the moment 8)


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looks good...got that mobo and its perfect if you dont you'll need two pci-e slots.
have you got any parts you can use in the new pc? ( i used the sound card, monitor and ram from old pc which lowered my costs)
When i got advice for my pc a few people said that memory would not be a major performance booster ingames-so if you have some older memory, why not use that time being and get a better cpu (for the extra 60 quid you could get a 3500 or 3700 which might make more of a difference)

I was going to say get an x8000gto2 like me for gaming over the 7600 on grounds of better performance even if it doesnt have sm3 but to be fair, its been serious hassle (theres a duff variation that many places sell...finally got the right one and pipes unlocked to 16 and oc'd 550/1160 stable at a reasonable temp on stock cooling!)

Basically thats a good system but id advise if you can, not to spend money on components that are easily transfered and get better core components. But at the end of the day in terms of bang for buck, thats plenty of bang :)

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its all from new, most i've got is a 20GB HDD and a pair of cruddy CDRW drives =D

i'll look at AM2, trouble is theres only three mobos...lukicly one is ~£50

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http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=324963

personally id get this moniter awsell!

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Scorchedbee =GCHQ= wrote:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=324963

personally id get this moniter awsell!


well spotted....

Right, an upgrade to AM2 is £17.31, for A64 3200 AM2, Corsair XMS 667MHz 1GB and the MSI K9N Neo F NF550

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