upgrading, need advice

Sniipe

I'm looking to upgrade my system and possibly (if affordable) to get a dual processor... AMD or Intel, I'm easy going, just looking to get biggest bang for my buck.
I've a hard budget of 400euro and I need the following upgraded (bare in mind I'm an avid gamer)
Motherboard + Processor (currently Socket 754 and AMD64 3200+)
Graphics Card (currently ATI X800Pro)

As I said I'm hoping for a dual core or something drastically faster than what I have and prob a pci-E motherboard and card. Also my memory has been recently been upgraded to OCZ 1024mb(x2) - pc3200 I think. I assume this ram will be compatible and will hold me for another while.

Here is something I came up with quickly, its a tad over budget, so I should go for a cheaper processor.
Motherboard = Euro106.06 Asustek AM2 nForce 570 SLI ATX Audio Dual Lan DDR11
Processor = Euro177.02 AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ AM2 2.8GHz
Graphics Card = Euro146.34 Sapphire Technology Radeon X1950GT 512MB GDDR3 PCIE Dual DVI 500/600

Can't believe how cheap graphics cards have gotten... Hope ^^ that sort of system will do for a good while game wise.

challengemaster

Intel are miles ahead of AMD currently and possibly will be for another while

i reccomend this

and

this

instead of what you have there - with a good cooler you'll overclock that cpu easily

poggy

all new configerations use DDR2 ram so urs wont be compatable i'm afraid

Sniipe

eek, ****. I only just bought them.. ah well more money...thanks for pointing it out Poggy

hopeful

poggy wrote:

all new configerations use DDR2 ram so urs wont be compatable i'm afraid

Not strictly true. There are a couple of Asrock boards that take Intel Core2Duo cpu's and DDR RAM...they also have AGP as well as PCI-E slots.

See HERE

poggy

cool looks like ur safe snippe sorry for the scare.

Sniipe

LOL my poor heart. I'll have to try and get a board like that for the core2duo