and this is what happens when i dont upgrade for a long time...

i start to forget my roots
o.k story is i got £126 to spend on upgradeing my rig (amd 64 3400+ 1 gig ram . dfl nf3 mainbord x800 gfx card) so i'm looking for a c2d but i dont know what maindbord to get do i got an NF bord again or an intell chipset ?!?!?
help me bit-tech your my only hope !!!!!
oh and i'm upgradeing becasue of bioshock

 

£126 for CPU & mobo or just mobo?
& presumably then you'll be needing DDR2 RAM as well?

 

cpu and mainbord, ram i'l get later

 

E2140/E4400 and uhhh... something for £50-60. Look at a P965 motherboard: Gigabyte DS3, Asus P5B or MSI P965 Neo or Abit IB9? http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=P965

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/pro...ore2Duo_E4400_2x1_8GHz_800FSB_LGA775_2MB_cac/

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/38000523/Intel_INTEL_PENTIUM_DUAL_CORE_2x_1_60_1M_800MHz/

To be honest for the same money you could pick up a 5200+ and something AM2 for a similar price and likely a similar performance. Check this: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/02/01/intel_core_2_duo_e4300/1

 

thanks guys
i went for http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/35890039/Intel_Intel_CPU_Core2Duo_E4400_2x1_8GHz_800FSB_LGA775_2MB_cac/ witch some how komplett'd site say's it's a 2ghz a perfer abit over gygabytend a http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/31959291/ABIT_ABIT_IB9P965Socket_775GbLAN_ATX4xSATAIID_/
have gone a bit over £140.70 in total with postage but i thik i can scrounge £20 off mum to make it up

 

Good choice! Nice setup for the moneys.

 

Yep, that's a typo. The E4400 (which I have here) is rated at 2x2.0GHz. It's the E4300 which runs at 2x1.8GHz.

 

Wot about GFX? You'll need something better than an x800 for bioshock...

I know its too late for you, but for someone else considering something similar, imh(amd-biased!)o, a better grafix card with perhaps an X2 processor would have been better for a game - games tend to be more grafix-limited than cpu (to a degree).

Anyway, just my two-bits worth, not a criticism of what you want to do.

 

gfx, well that comes on payday probley get ram one mounth then gfx the next
i'l get teh game yes, but i wont be playing it for a bit

 

bumping this thread because i'm looking at some gfx cards, bio shock says 8600 or better, all i got to say it gt or gts and 256 or 512 ?

 

GTS is a faster card and I don't think you'll need more than 256MB of VRAM on a mid-range card.

 

Club3D GeForce 8800GTS 320MB any good ?

 

should be more than fine