I wanna upgrade

Richard Dower

Here is my current specs;

Gigabyte GA-8KNXP revision 2.1, FJ BIOS
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2Ghz 800MHz FSB o/c to 3.37GHz
Corsair 2GB, TwinX PC3200XLPT @ 2-2-2-5 DDR400 @ DDR420
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 4.5ms, x2 - RAID 0 Array 128k stripe
Leadtek 6800 Ultra 256MB GDDR3 425/1100MHz
AOpen H700a full size tower
Plextor PX-712A 12x DVD+R, 1.05 firmware(waiting for a Plextor 716A to be re-released, not the botched crap sold at Best Buy in the US)
Lite-On SOHD 167T 16x DVD-ROM, 9S19 firmware
Digital Doc 5+ controlling eight 80mm Vantec Stealth fans
Thermalright SP-94
Panasonic PanoFlo 92mm
Arctic Silver 5
Sony 3.5" floppy drive
Eircom Cayman Netopia 3341, latest firmware
Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite
Creative I-Trigue L3450 speakers
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB
Coolermaster rounded floppy and IDE cables
Antec TruePower 550W PSU
Microcool Northpole Northbridge cooler
Hewlet Packard monitor cooler
HP Deskjet 5650
Windows XP Professional - SP2 slipstreamed.


So i was thinking, what is the easiest and cost effective way to upgrade and be top of the food chain again?

Now obviously you have the soon-to-be-released nForce 4 motherboards with SLI, then you have the 952XE motherboards. But based on numerous reviews it seems the only way to go right now is AMD and the FX-55.

So keeping this in mind and not wanting to have to buy all new hardware, such as PCI Express, DDR2, PCI-E power supply etc. i think the easist way to to do something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-254&depa=0

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-492&depa=0

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/thxpforinp4.html

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/pa12mesp.html



Whatcha think?, best Socket 939 nForce 3 motherboard, FX-55, XP-120, PanaFlo 120mm.....at least this way i get to keep the majority of my current rig and be on top once again, and it should be easy to o/c the FX-55 to 2.8GHz on air with the cooling setup i've chosen.

All i have to do then is come back on Boards and sell my old motherboard/CPU/Heatsink/Fan.......

tuxy

wtf thats a real high spec pc and will run any game you throw at it with ease

can you realy not find anything better to spend your cash on?

boo4842

Can't you see he wanted an excuse to post his system spec on the board?

lol

I have half a million in cash sitting in the bank, whats the best way to get to a million? Bonds? Stocks? Property?

Mac daddy

The GFX card that you have picked out is this one AGP or PCi express ??

Richard Dower

tuxy wrote:

wtf thats a real high spec pc and will run any game you throw at it with ease

can you realy not find anything better to spend your cash on?

Such as?, hey...we all have hobbies, what can i say?

I'm a slave to the upgrade.

Richard Dower

Mac daddy wrote:

The GFX card that you have picked out is this one AGP or PCi express ??

It's AGP 8x, which is why i choose nForce 3 Ultra. It supports AGP and DDR memory, thus i can retain the majority of my current components.

Besides, PCI-E offers no performance increase over AGP.

tuxy

Richard Dower wrote:

Such as?, hey...we all have hobbies, what can i say?

I'm a slave to the upgrade.

ya but that much money for an fps so small you can hardly tell the difference