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Yeah, I think I should make some upgrades to my gaming rig.. What do u people recommend? :p Now it has:

Lapped Intel C2D E6400 @ 2.75GHz (hits 3.5GHz easily, but not with this motherboard..)
Asus P5KPL-AM EPU (G31, LGA775, 2xDDR2 slots, PCIE x16 1.1 etc..)
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Hec 300W PSU (heh, this one has run a oc'd HD3870X2 with no problems ;))
Hyundai 17" TFT (no need to change, this is good for me :))
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Don't need new speakers, mouse or kb... These are ok :p

But I would want some recommends from people :)


Sorry for my bad english :D
 
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at least a new psu, look at corasirs offereings
 

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No sense of it if you're not willing to upgrade your display.
 
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It's hard with what you have there to think at one specific component. I personally wouldn't put any more money into that configuration but then again a new competitive biuld will get you to at least around 800 Euro. If you still want to game on that system you need a new GPU (maybe 6850or GTX460 1GB) and definitely a better PSU.
 
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Have you ever used a RAID setup?
 

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It's hard with what you have there to think at one specific component. I personally wouldn't put any more money into that configuration but then again a new competitive biuld will get you to at least around 800 Euro. If you still want to game on that system you need a new GPU (maybe 6850or GTX460 1GB) and definitely a better PSU.

His 4850 is fine with that res on the monitor.

OP i would pick up a new 775 mobo and a c2q. Depending on your budget you can find a p5n-d for around 50 and a q6600 for around 100. Or if you wanted to have a amazing skt 775 platform a ud3p would be sweet with a q9550. It all depends on your budget though.

EDIT: and a new psu with any of these upgrades.
 

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Have you ever used a RAID setup?

No, I haven't. This mobo doesn't even support it...

Hmm, no sense if not buying a new display? Myself I have thought, that I should get a used quad-core CPU first... Playin' GTA IV sometimes... :p Better ideas on u guys? I'm sure that quad-core would still run on this PSU with this configuration, as this PSU had run HD3870X2 @ 900/1000 with no problems :D
 

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His 4850 is fine with that res on the monitor.

OP i would pick up a new 775 mobo and a c2q. Depending on your budget you can find a p5n-d for around 50 and a q6600 for around 100. Or if you wanted to have a amazing skt 775 platform a ud3p would be sweet with a q9550. It all depends on your budget though.

EDIT: and a new psu with any of these upgrades.

Hmm, thought about something like that. An used P35/X38/P45 mobo & Q6600 is something that should be fine..?
 
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yes but the again you will need a better GPU (GTA4 needs that besides the four cores...). Oh, and the PSU...
 

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Hmm, thought about something like that. An used P35/X38/P45 mobo & Q6600 is something that should be fine..?

Yeah im running on a q6600 and a 750i chipset. The 750i isn't known for it's high OC capability's with C2q's but i have mine clocked to 3.6. I was running only 1 8800gts for a while and i think your 4850 is equal to it or better and i could pretty much run most stuff at 1920x1080 pretty easily. I could play bc2 at low setting 1920x1080 at 60fps or i could run medium pretty easily too. I just upgraded to SLI yesterday and noticed a pretty big performance difference.

Honestly id just get a used q6600 and a better board P45 chipset's are where it's at and then you can Crossifre later on if needed.

You might be able to still run that psu on the q6600 and board but why risk it? You would be getting a new board that is a pretty stinkin good board and a q6600. If your PSU goes bad, boom it could take your mobo out too beings that its a crappy PSU. So you could spend like 50-70 bucks on a new psu that will run your rig fine and won't take out your components :cool:
 
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Definitely your PSU at the very minimum.
 

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Yeah im running on a q6600 and a 750i chipset. The 750i isn't known for it's high OC capability's with C2q's but i have mine clocked to 3.6. I was running only 1 8800gts for a while and i think your 4850 is equal to it or better and i could pretty much run most stuff at 1920x1080 pretty easily. I could play bc2 at low setting 1920x1080 at 60fps or i could run medium pretty easily too. I just upgraded to SLI yesterday and noticed a pretty big performance difference.

Honestly id just get a used q6600 and a better board P45 chipset's are where it's at and then you can Crossifre later on if needed.

You might be able to still run that psu on the q6600 and board but why risk it? You would be getting a new board that is a pretty stinkin good board and a q6600. If your PSU goes bad, boom it could take your mobo out too beings that its a crappy PSU. So you could spend like 50-70 bucks on a new psu that will run your rig fine and won't take out your components :cool:
Alrighty.. So, you're saying, that P45 mobo, Q6600 or other quad-core and new psu? Well, that sounds ok.. :)


...maybe later another 4GB RAM and another Radeon HD4850, those are cheap nowadays :)


btw, I oc'd this E6400 to 3.5GHz with a nF650i SLI mobo (MSI P6N SLI Platinum), but it broke up when I was setting up SLI (GF8800 GTS 320 & 640MB) :(
 
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I have a p45 and a q6600 and its grand
 

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Id get a Monitor an power supply right now

Then when amd releases their 6950 and 6970 then id get a either a new nvidia card for ati card
 
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Yeah, I think I should make some upgrades to my gaming rig.. What do u people recommend? :p Now it has:

Lapped Intel C2D E6400 @ 2.75GHz (hits 3.5GHz easily, but not with this motherboard..)
Asus P5KPL-AM EPU (G31, LGA775, 2xDDR2 slots, PCIE x16 1.1 etc..)
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AOpen PATA dvd+/-rw drive
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Hec 300W PSU (heh, this one has run a oc'd HD3870X2 with no problems ;))
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Win7 Ultimate 64-bit

Don't need new speakers, mouse or kb... These are ok :p

But I would want some recommends from people :)


Sorry for my bad english :D

Mobo, CPU, RAM and PSU the latter first!!
 

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Alrighty.. So, you're saying, that P45 mobo, Q6600 or other quad-core and new psu? Well, that sounds ok.. :)


...maybe later another 4GB RAM and another Radeon HD4850, those are cheap nowadays :)


btw, I oc'd this E6400 to 3.5GHz with a nF650i SLI mobo (MSI P6N SLI Platinum), but it broke up when I was setting up SLI (GF8800 GTS 320 & 640MB) :(

Yeah if you get a p45 board you can crossfire on the ud3p and some other ones. So adding another 4850 for cheap wouldn't be bad either. 4 gigs of ram is plenty right now man don't bother with that.

Just get a ep45-ud3p and grab a intel c2q. Come ask us for one's your looking at and wether its a good buy or not.
 

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1 more vote for Quad core! You will feel this difference the most, and then upgrade your graphics card when you are going for a better monitor.
 

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1 more vote for Quad core! You will feel this difference the most, and then upgrade your graphics card when you are going for a better monitor.

Exactly! Cause if he gets new gpu's and is still running the c2d he's gonna run into bottlenecking and at low res its more cpu dependent anyways.
 

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You said existing build. If going new mobo/cpu/ram, make it worthwhile. Core ixx or am3.
 

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Hmm... So you guys are saying that I should move to ddr3..? Wouldn't Phenom II X4/X6 (or X2 @ X4) be ok with ddr2 mobo? With CF support of course ;)

Anyway, I had been thinking all the recommendations that you all have given, and thought something like this...

Option 1:

An used X38 or P45 motherboard with DDR2 support
Q6600 or Q9xx0 -processor
Another 4 GBytes of DDR2-1066
Another HD4850 to Crossfire
Corsair's cheap PSU (450+ Watts)

Option 2:

AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 & Crossfire support
Phenom X2 555 BE or X4 9x5BE (model depends of budget... i'm a poor guy :D)
Another 4GBytes of DDR2-1066
Another HD4850 to Crossfire
Corsair's cheap PSU (450+ Watts)


Or something else? Just wouldn't like to sell these DDR2 sticks and get DDR3... :/
 
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1 more vote for Quad core! You will feel this difference the most, and then upgrade your graphics card when you are going for a better monitor.

quad core is good but most of apps just utilize 2 of them, quad core is nice if you plan to get high end system
i guess you need to upgrade graphic card and psu, the rest just leave it, if you still have spare money you could upgrade the monitor to 19 inch or larger for better gaming ;)
 

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quad core is good but most of apps just utilize 2 of them, quad core is nice if you plan to get high end system
i guess you need to upgrade graphic card and psu, the rest just leave it, if you still have spare money you could upgrade the monitor to 19 inch or larger for better gaming ;)

But my CPU would be an insane bottleneck for better GPU than this overclocked HD4850..? :wtf:

Anyway, one friend from irc is selling me an Antec NeoHE 430W PSU at 15 euros, and I think that it's a wonderful deal :)


...and I'm going to buy a GeForce 7800GS AGP from other friend to rig 2 :D
 
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But my CPU would be an insane bottleneck for better GPU than this overclocked HD4850..?

yeah, quad core will give you much power but it wont utilize 100%, but if you want to run your rig on the max it could be considered
if you need power much and want to avoid bottle neck take quad core, if you on the middle take dual core :ohwell:
 

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Hmm... So you guys are saying that I should move to ddr3..? Wouldn't Phenom II X4/X6 (or X2 @ X4) be ok with ddr2 mobo? With CF support of course ;)

Anyway, I had been thinking all the recommendations that you all have given, and thought something like this...

Option 1:

An used X38 or P45 motherboard with DDR2 support
Q6600 or Q9xx0 -processor
Another 4 GBytes of DDR2-1066
Another HD4850 to Crossfire
Corsair's cheap PSU (450+ Watts)

Option 2:

AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 & Crossfire support
Phenom X2 555 BE or X4 9x5BE (model depends of budget... i'm a poor guy :D)
Another 4GBytes of DDR2-1066
Another HD4850 to Crossfire
Corsair's cheap PSU (450+ Watts)


Or something else? Just wouldn't like to sell these DDR2 sticks and get DDR3... :/

Crossfire would go to waste at your resolution. I was giving it some thought over the past day or so:

Keep existing
Upgrade GPU (GTX460 or above)
Upgrade PSU (Branded 400W or above)
Upgrade display(Minimum 1680x1050 res)

Also is this upgrade you are doing strictly for gaming? Or are there other reasons behind it?

@micropage7

Athlon II X3 4x5's are pretty damn nice for the price. You might even get lucky and get it to unlock to a quad.
 

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Crossfire would go to waste at your resolution. I was giving it some thought over the past day or so:

Keep existing
Upgrade GPU (GTX460 or above)
Upgrade PSU (Branded 400W or above)
Upgrade display(Minimum 1680x1050 res)

Also is this upgrade you are doing strictly for gaming? Or are there other reasons behind it?

@micropage7

Athlon II X3 4x5's are pretty damn nice for the price. You might even get lucky and get it to unlock to a quad.

Even if I would play games with full details on this resolution? Would still HD4850-Crossfire be waste? :S Those cards are cheap when buy as used nowadays, and it would give some performance boost..? You're saying that I should keep this crap mobo and have E6400 with slow clocks? This just won't go any further than 8x344, all tricks tried and FSB won't go any further.. With MSI P6N SLI Platinum, I ran SuperPI 8M and other benchmarks with 3.5GHz clockspeed on this CPU :D

But you mentioned AII X3... Would that be ok at unlocked? If it doesn't unlock, i suppose it still take some oc easily?
 
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