I am thinking of upgradring my Pentium IV 2.4 GHz, 1.5 GB DDR, GeForce 6600GT 128MB to something along these lines:
- Asus P5B-E Plus (P965)
- Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2 MB cache)
- 2 x 1 GB Kingston DDR2-667 (CL5)
- Asus X1950 Pro (256 MB)
My thoughts are that I will only be doing light gaming (right now mostly World of Warcraft) so I don't need a powerhouse. Most components can be upgraded later (faster CPU, maybe quad-core, faster memory, faster GPU, etc).
I don't have any real need to upgrade right now but I do have a friend who is looking for mobo and CPU so I can offload my old stuff on him.
I could go down to an E6300 which would save me about 100 ?. I don't know however how that would compare CPU-wise to my current setup. I guess I could make with just 1 GB memory and even a slower graphics card to save even more.
What are your thoughts on this?
Another option I've pondered is the same mobo, E6600, 2x1 GB Corsair DDR2-800 and X1950 XT but that would increase the price by about 300 ?.
(I will be re-using my current comonents, NEC DVD-writer, 2xHitachi 250 GB SATA drives, might keep the Audigy 2, etc).
- Asus P5B-E Plus (P965)
- Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2 MB cache)
- 2 x 1 GB Kingston DDR2-667 (CL5)
- Asus X1950 Pro (256 MB)
My thoughts are that I will only be doing light gaming (right now mostly World of Warcraft) so I don't need a powerhouse. Most components can be upgraded later (faster CPU, maybe quad-core, faster memory, faster GPU, etc).
I don't have any real need to upgrade right now but I do have a friend who is looking for mobo and CPU so I can offload my old stuff on him.
I could go down to an E6300 which would save me about 100 ?. I don't know however how that would compare CPU-wise to my current setup. I guess I could make with just 1 GB memory and even a slower graphics card to save even more.
What are your thoughts on this?
Another option I've pondered is the same mobo, E6600, 2x1 GB Corsair DDR2-800 and X1950 XT but that would increase the price by about 300 ?.
(I will be re-using my current comonents, NEC DVD-writer, 2xHitachi 250 GB SATA drives, might keep the Audigy 2, etc).
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