Recent content by JonnyConcrete

Hi folks So having a newborn and moving house has taken up all my time and money. Ive got all the parts except the motherboard. I can get a z97 from argos 0% interest if I spend over £100. They only have 4 over that price and looks like this is the only one that has sli support and has...

Will that motherboard be ok to go with the 1840?

To be honest I've decided to do a more substantial upgrade. Thinking of getting these parts now then get a gtx 750 for Christmas or maybe a gtx 960 then further down the line get a i5 or i7 cpu and an ssd drive, then even further down the line another 8gb ram and maybe a second video card sli...

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OK points taken. So I'll take your advice and order the above. Now when I change out the motherboard and replace with the new gear is it simply swap the parts over? Do I want to change the parts before upgrading to win7 or after? Got any links to youtube tutorials on the whole process I can...

Ok so Im thinking I want the best motherboard suggested so I can fully upgrade the cpu, ram to 32gb and up to 2 video cards if I want too. The cpu I may as well just go with the celeron as Im only going to be using this for flight sim atm and that is rather cheap so I wont be too gutted...

Not had time to have a proper look because been at work but was thinking the same, leaning towards the MSI H97 PC MATE and one 8gb stick ddr3 1600. That mobo has crossfire which means i can eventually run 2 video cards is that correct? Not had time to look at anything else yet but I will...

Ugh I knew this was a bad idea. I should just stick with my PS4 :o Right looks like I'll be doing some serious research over the weekend trying to get my head back in the game, it's been so long. I really ought to get a mobo that is totally future proof as I do want to get back into pc...

If I upgrade in the future the 4gb stick will be worthless like my 2gb and 1gb is now, if I get an 8gb stick then I can always get another if I end up, upgrading the cpu and gfx card.

Ahh I assumed it had 4 as that's what my current mono has. Right, I might just get an 8gb stick to start with if I can stretch to it.

Looks like Im going over budget (dont tell the wife) When I want to upgrade the Ram I just buy another (the same) 4gb Kingston RAM stick until I have 4 = 16gb?

Ill get 7 and upgrade to 10 asap

Sweet. Thanks a lot for the help. Ive posted this question on 6 of the most frequented forums I could find and this forum has given me the best answers, Much appreciated.

OK so looks like the mobo can take 16gb ram and i7 cpu so for the same price its probably a good bet to go with it in case I want to upgrade in the future.

The chips are very similar in this benchmark http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+9750+Quad-Core http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+G1820+%40+2.70GHz