Need help upgrading

[ding5550123]

I needed help upgrading. I have a 450 Watt PSU, in a case that looks like it can have upto about 6 expansion slots. I have a CD drive, and floppy drive. I have space for 4 hard drives. Case cooling is good, to the point where it needs no other fans.

I have a budget of around $350-$400.

I have a motherboard that i want, (here)

This memory (<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820609084)

I was thinking a Pentium D 805 smithfield core (<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819116001--->here</a>)

An ASUS Graphics card with ATI GPU (<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814121551--->here</a>)

A segate Barricuda 80 GB SATA ([L=here]http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148107">here</a>)

XP PRO (i can get it my town)

A linksys PCI WIFI card (i'll try to use wired, but it hasn't worked yet)

Good? Crap? Please let me know so I don't buy a crap machine.

EDIT: I will add on as time goes on.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Is this for gaming?

Is that the most you can afford to spend?

How soon would you have more money, and how much then?

 

[ding5550123]

I have $200 now and will get $300 around Christmas,

It would be used for casual gaming (sim city, ect),
and Software programming (it states you need a 1 GHZ or faster processer with 512 MB of memory)

 

[DaveSimmons]

The dual-core would be nice for programming though it's a bit slow at stock speed for heavy gaming.

The X1300 isn't great for gaming compared to a $100 7600GT but it would be twice the cost.

With that budget I'd be tempted to go with a single-core socket 939 CPU (probably a 3700+), a Biostar TForce 6100-939 and use the onboard nvidia 6100 video until I could afford a good video card. Sadly socket 939 dual-core isn't a good value now that the X2 3800+ isn't $150 any more.

That would offer better gaming potential but costs you the second core for non-gaming use.

 

[Emoe]

Do you have a CPU already?

If you're going to be running budget C2D, maybe this mobo will do ECS P965. For $69.99 AR, it's a pretty good mobo.

Also, I hear that the Asus 1950pro for 164$ on newegg is coming back in stock pretty soon. But really, if you're just doing casual gaming, maybe a 7600GT will do just fine. Newegg has an evga 7600gt for $109.99 AR.

 

[ding5550123]

Originally posted by: Emoe
Do you have a CPU already?

If you're going to be running budget C2D, maybe this mobo will do ECS P965. For $69.99 AR, it's a pretty good mobo.

Also, I hear that the Asus 1950pro for 164$ on newegg is coming back in stock pretty soon. But really, if you're just doing casual gaming, maybe a 7600GT will do just fine. Newegg has an evga 7600gt for $109.99 AR.

no. ( have a socket pII and a celeron (old, around 1 GHz. neither of witch are good for anything)

 

[ding5550123]

The motherboard requires the 6 or 8 pin ( iforgot) CPU power connecter (not the molex)

can you get an adapter, cause i don't want to switch PSU's

 

[ding5550123]

I have a question. I'm going to get another $100 or so dollars, and Xeons have caught my eye.

Has anyone had good experiences with dual Xeons. I can have the space. And I have a 450 watt psu.
Will it work with my setup

I know it's little out of what it's going to be used for, but i can change that.

It WILL not happen, though does it work?