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Casper312

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So i recently sold my backup computer to a friend for $150 (helluva deal when you see the specs). He was asking me that he has some extra cash since i sold it cheap to him and wonders what he should upgrade next. I have been out of the tech scene for a while and only know about video cards at the moment.

As for info on him, Hes a hardcore gamer that practically lives on his computer. The most he will do is game on the machine and watch hd movies. He games on 1280x1024 and prefers close to max or high settings with some AA. As for his budget he says he has around $200 to get something new for his new system.

Specs: 100% stable, Tested for 5 hours before i handed it over.

E5200 @ 3.9Ghz @ 1.445V / Tuniq Tower 120
G.Skill Pi Black 4GB (2x2GB) @ DDR2 960 @ 5-5-5-12
Gigabyte GA-P45-UD3R
Evga 9800GTX 512M @ 815 (Core)/2025 (Shader)/1225 (Mem)
Western Digital WD2500JBRTL 8MB Cache
OCZ StealhxStream 600W (OCZ600SXS model IIRC)
Creative Audigy 2ZS


What do you guys think? So far myself im thinking a new hard drive, the WD 640GB AALS should be a good upgrade from the stone age 250GB and would expand his storage space since he loves storing his movies on his computer but im also thinking of going a bit cheaper on the hard drive mainly around 50 bucks and leave some amount open for a new monitor since newegg has some decent monitors up for $150 and would fit perfect for his budget meaning 150 for monitor and around 50-60 for a new hard drive.
 
Just curious. Is there any difference between that superclocked E5200 and an E8600? I mean, it's clocked faster than an E8600, but is there any difference in architecture?
 
Only difference is amount of L2 Cache it has. 5 series has 2 MBs and 8 has 6 MBs. But 5 series are out classes by Athlon2 CPUs.
 
Yep what i had in mind, i looked up the ST3500418AS and according to reviews, its double the performance of the current 250Gb the rig had. As for the monitor we had a similar monitor that we looked was the Acer P224Wbd.

As for the cpu discussion, like shiro said only difference is the cache that each series had. As for my opinion i upgraded to a E8400 for a few weeks from that E5200 and clock for clock i noticed no extreme difference from either, granted the E5200 capped on me @ 4.1Ghz with some major tweaking while the E8400 did past 4.75Ghz.


Anyways thanks for the advice pretty much the deals on the egg were right on time for him. We are gonna visit mc today and see if we can find some better deals before he orders.
 
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