Morning all,
Not been on for a while. Hope all the regulars are doing well.
Well its budget upgrade time. Ive had my current setup (see sig) for around 2 years looking at my last few post, and the P4 is even older at almost 4 years. Its been a solid PC and has handled everything ive thrown at it but its time for a little upgrade and to give the old girl a rest...she deserves it!
Im thinking new mobo, cpu and ram but have been out of the loop for a while.
First and foremost the CPU, something along the lines of a lower end Core2Duo or maybe a budget Quad core? Something to give it some processing umph as the X1900 ive got has never realised its full potential. Im not adverse to AMD either as im thinking a dual core cpu would be cheaper than a Core2Duo....i think??
Just looking for suggestions really. Im wanting to play games but the only ones that are causing problems are Crysis (GPU and CPU need upgrading) and Supreme Commander (mainly CPU from what ive heard) Both these run ok'ish at the mo but i wanting steady 1280x720 or 1366x768 performance to go with my Panny Plasma.
Then once a CPU's been nailed, help with marrying up some ram and a mobo with it.
Budget is around £200ish ($350ish)
Thanks all for looking and cheers for any help.
Buz.
Not been on for a while. Hope all the regulars are doing well.
Well its budget upgrade time. Ive had my current setup (see sig) for around 2 years looking at my last few post, and the P4 is even older at almost 4 years. Its been a solid PC and has handled everything ive thrown at it but its time for a little upgrade and to give the old girl a rest...she deserves it!
Im thinking new mobo, cpu and ram but have been out of the loop for a while.
First and foremost the CPU, something along the lines of a lower end Core2Duo or maybe a budget Quad core? Something to give it some processing umph as the X1900 ive got has never realised its full potential. Im not adverse to AMD either as im thinking a dual core cpu would be cheaper than a Core2Duo....i think??
Just looking for suggestions really. Im wanting to play games but the only ones that are causing problems are Crysis (GPU and CPU need upgrading) and Supreme Commander (mainly CPU from what ive heard) Both these run ok'ish at the mo but i wanting steady 1280x720 or 1366x768 performance to go with my Panny Plasma.
Then once a CPU's been nailed, help with marrying up some ram and a mobo with it.
Budget is around £200ish ($350ish)
Thanks all for looking and cheers for any help.
Buz.