Mobo/Cpu/Ram upgrade help

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Bigjmaster18

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Well I want to upgrade my mobo ram and cpu

i currently have an old intel pentium processor and want to get quad core with 8 gigs of memory and will get a 4870X2 when it comes out

what is the best quad core for the price and ram?
 
  • What is your budget? Are shipping and/or taxes included within that budget?
  • Where do you live? Where are you (planning on) buying everything at?
  • Which components do you already have? Which components are you going to reuse (from older builds)? (Be as specific as possible.)
  • What are you going to use your computer for? Which games/programs are you going to use?
  • Do you plan on overclocking? Are you going to use water (or some other form of "exotic") cooling?
  • Which monitor are you using? What resolution do you use? Are you using multiple monitors? Do you plan on buying a new/multiple monitor(s) any time soon?
  • Which features do you want on the motherboard?
  • How long do you want this system to last? Are you (planning on) making any incremental upgrades during that time?
 
Please answer Tiraides' questions fully or we cannot help you.
 
I currently have a monitor that does 1920 by 1080 and I want this to last me for 3-4 years and I do not plan to overclock. And I will be reusing everything from my old computer besides the mobo cpu and ram. And the only incremental change i will make is the video card if the 4870X2 becomes crap next year.

My budget is $500
 
Danny Bui said:
Please answer Tiraides' questions fully or we cannot help you.
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tiraides said:
  • What is your budget? $500 Are shipping and/or taxes included within that budget?
  • Where do you live? Where are you (planning on) buying everything at?
  • Which components do you already have? Which components are you going to reuse (from older builds)? (Be as specific as possible.) everything from my old computer besides the mobo cpu and ram
  • What are you going to use your computer for? Which games/programs are you going to use?
  • Do you plan on overclocking? I do not plan to overclock Are you going to use water (or some other form of "exotic") cooling?
  • Which monitor are you using? What resolution do you use? 1920 by 1080 Are you using multiple monitors? Do you plan on buying a new/multiple monitor(s) any time soon?
  • Which features do you want on the motherboard?
  • How long do you want this system to last? 3-4 years Are you (planning on) making any incremental upgrades during that time? the video card
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...almost there. You answered 4 out of 15 questions (you didn't really answer the one about which parts you'll be re-using). At least answer the ones in Red.

The best bang for buck parts would be:
$180 - $200 :: Q6600
$95 - Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L
$85 - 4GB G.Skill DDR2-800 CL5
$85 - 4GB G.Skill DDR2-800 CL5

Since you didn't tell us what your old vidcard is, it may or may not work on this board. Since you didn't tell us how many IDE drives you have, a separate controller card was not suggested. You'll only be able to use 2 IDE devices on this board. Since you didn't tell us if tax/shipping is included, nor where you plan on buying from, I didn't put a total and assumed newegg. Since you didn't mention what features you needed in a mobo, I went for the cheapest solution that didnt sacrifice performance. Since dhc recommended the Neo3, I changed my recommendation to the DS3L, to give you options, lol.
 
II dont really know much about ram but is there much of a difference between the timings of them?

and what is all this business with pc3200 pc6400 etc

And I only use one hard drive i have a 550 watt power supply a 7950gt a pci Audigy 2zs soundcard
 
You still haven't answered all of our questions yet. Please answer them or we cannot help you.

PC3200 and PC6400 are the RAM speeds. Ram timings do not matter that much. So don't worry about them.

And what 550W PSU do you have? And are those parts you listed gonna be reused with this rig?
 
Bigjmaster18 said:
II dont really know much about ram but is there much of a difference between the timings of them?

and what is all this business with pc3200 pc6400 etc

And I only use one hard drive i have a 550 watt power supply a 7950gt a pci Audigy 2zs soundcard
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Which model 550W?

No, there's no performance difference between CL4 and CL5 with DDR2 RAM. You won't notice a difference between CL4 and CL5, unless you're running benchmarks (and even then, the difference is negligible), so don't pay a huge price premium for lower latency.

DDR-400 is the speed of the RAM, PC-3200 is the bandwidth rating... so, in short, 8x400 = 3200 = 3.2GB/s is the bandwidth... thats for DDR-400. For DDR2-800, the bw rating would be 6.4GB/s.
 
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