CPU Athlon 7850 Upgrade. RAM and GPU upgrade.

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  1. Kronos

    Kronos Multimodder

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    Looking for advise to give someone else a reasonable upgrade from the Athlon 7850 and Asus M3N72-D and also looking to upgrade from 2 x 9500 GPU's all for the princely sum of $400 (£250). Oh and at least double the RAM. He currently has 3 x Kingston HyperX 1GB (PC2 8500).

    I no nothing of AMD hence I am seeking advice here. Over to you folks.
     
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    i presumed they were in the US since you quoted a dollar budget?
     
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    Yep I think so.
     
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    I'd ditch the am2 stuff and go am3+, at least it leaves you with an upgrade path of sorts plus gives you ddr3 ram

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...80&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20

    Just make sure it supports 125w cpu's eg:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135314 ECS A960M-M2

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134131ECS NGTX560TI-1GPI-F1

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104277Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3

    $374.96
     
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  7. Kronos

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    Thanks for taking the time to do look out the above.
     
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  8. The_Crapman

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    good spot davvy. I'd go with that over my suggestion.
     
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