Upgrade for a friend?

munkle

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So since the Amd price cuts are coming soon I am going to upgrade my 3700+ SD to a x2 3800+. I was going to sell my old processor to a friend of mine who is running a socket A system, I think a barton 2500+. He has 2x512mb sticks of pc3200 ram so hes good there, and hes going to keep his hard drive. So these are what we are looking at to upgrade. Any comments are welcome, especially if the power supply in the case could handle the upgrade. Hes also on a Dell 2005fpw, Im pretty sure that videocard will do well on it, just not max settings in games but will handle native.

So it will have my SD 3700+ cpu and I think he has a 80gb hard drive.
This Foxconn mobo, 6100.
Nec Dvd burner.
This antec case with 380w PS
This Ati x800 video card.

Were trying to keep it cheap, he wouldn't have wanted to upgrade if I wasnt going to sell him my cpu for a good price.
 
I'd try to nab a used x850pro or XT off the forum, or a refurb from ATI.

Get a case and separate power supply, he'll thank you in the long run. Under 400W, he'll have to buy a new supply to drop in a higher-power GPU or processor in the future anyway.
 
-=Antimatter=- said:
I'd try to nab a used x850pro or XT off the forum, or a refurb from ATI.

Get a case and separate power supply, he'll thank you in the long run. Under 400W, he'll have to buy a new supply to drop in a higher-power GPU or processor in the future anyway.
Lol, he doesnt like buying stuff used because he sees on here everbody overclocks there stuff so hes afraid he'll buy it and it will die in a month, but I suggested a refurb and hes alright with that. Hes fine with haveing to change the power supply if he decides to upgrade his graphics card down the road, because that wont be for along time, but just for right now I think that power supply will do well. Where did you see the refurbished cards? newegg or ati?
 
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