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    Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    Some of you might be aware that im buying/building my new pc after christmas however i cant stand how craptactular my current pc no surprise since its a fair few years old

    anywho im looking to spend as little as possible (£30- per part) to try and get my pc into a useable status with games, i dont mean brand new ones but currently i cant even run things like city of heroes or neverwinter nights 2 without having serious problems thats how bad it is.

    Current pc setup:
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    1 gb ram
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    300gig samsung hard drive
    stock psu
    stock fans and everything else.

    Anyone got any ideas?

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    A model number would jelp alot

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    If I was you, I'd start from scratch.

    Assuming the Case and PSU, hard drive and optical are resuable.

    Asus M2A-VM ~£35
    Amd 4850e X2 ~£38
    2GB PC6400 ~£30

    9500GT for games?

    But you could do the case and PSU for not much. An Antec NSK3480 would be perfect for the uATX setup above and it's only £53.

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    For gaming just an upgrade in the graphics card would make the biggest difference. Problem is that you'll be on agp cards rather than pci-e so it won't be worth upgrading really.

    Either get some £5 retro games and sit it out, or fleabay/Hexus classified for an old card that will give you a little boost.

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    If I was you, I'd start from scratch.

    Assuming the Case and PSU, hard drive and optical are resuable.

    Asus M2A-VM ~£35
    Amd 4850e X2 ~£38
    2GB PC6400 ~£30

    9500GT for games?

    But you could do the case and PSU for not much. An Antec NSK3480 would be perfect for the uATX setup above and it's only £53.
    i am starting from stratch just after xmas when i have the money

    hate to sound like a complete twonk but model number of what?

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    Model of your advent so he can google for what parts it's using I would imagine.

    Is it really worth doing anything to it then, the money would be better saved towards the new one I would think, unless you have a very high budget.

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    when i do get round to the new build my budget will be fairly high (4870 graphics, q6600 processor etc)
    advent 3316 pretty sure thats what your after

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    You've got a current budget of around £200, I'd forget the upgrades and do as Mike said, keep the money and put it towards a new rig next year, with i7 coming soon prices will crash

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    Quote Originally Posted by nukeman8 View Post
    Some of you might be aware that im buying/building my new pc after christmas however i cant stand how craptactular my current pc no surprise since its a fair few years old

    anywho im looking to spend as little as possible (£30- per part) to try and get my pc into a useable status with games, i dont mean brand new ones but currently i cant even run things like city of heroes or neverwinter nights 2 without having serious problems thats how bad it is.

    Current pc setup:
    Advent PC
    pentium 4 3.06
    1 gb ram
    radeon 9600xt-vio graphics
    300gig samsung hard drive
    stock psu
    stock fans and everything else.

    Anyone got any ideas?
    I recently upgraded my friends Medion pc which probably is similiar to your Advent pc as some of them used the same chassis and similiar components. The Pentium 4 3.06ghz was a socket 478 cpu and the ATI 9600XT is AGP only.

    I assume that your PSU is probably a 350w FSP one?

    I would personally upgrade the PSU to something a bit newer if you intend to put in a better card.

    Something along the following lines would be a good upgrade(from Ebuyer using the free Supersaver postage option):

    PowerColor X1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 VGA DVI TV Out AGP Graphics Card £35.85

    SilverPower 400W PSU - 2x PCI-E 2x SATA £24.99

    Corsair 2GB (2x1GB) DDR 400MHz/PC3200 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL3 £49.03


    Total:£109.87

    It maybe worth putting the money towards your new build but I suppose 3 months is still a reasonable time to wait.

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    not sure where this £200 has come about,
    all i wanna do is upgrade a couple of things (graphics and ram im looking at)
    just to last me until christmas so i can play all the games i got sat on the shelf doing nowt
    mirrowind obvilion is the highest top end game that i own right now as an example

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    £30 per component you said, 6 main bits = £180, anyway.

    As Cat-the-fifth said, it'd cost you alot to upgrade AGP and socket 478 bits, as they're old. You could get an e1200, 2GB ram, cheapish mobo and a £50 ati card for a bit more than he has said for them bits, upto you really.

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    ah right i get ya, surely i could nab a second hand old graphics card and some old ram, i cant see it costing alot

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    Try to get something like a X1950pro as these should be fine for Oblivion. and was one of the faster AGP cards made. Being AGP you have far less cards to choose from and Oblivion was quite a demanding game in its time. You will need to get 2x1gb DDR1 RAM sticks as your motherboard only has 2 ram slots.2x1gb of DDR1 ram is similiar in price to 2x2gb of DDR2 which most modern motherboards take. If you get something like a X1950pro AGP(NOT the PCI-E version) you may need to get a new PSU as they have considerably higher power comsumption than a 9600XT has as they need an extra molex connector.

    You can get a new x1950 pro AGP off Ebay for £60:

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/256MB-ATI-X195...d=p3286.c0.m14
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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    thanks alot for the info, any idea which ram to get?

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    There's and AGP HD3850 as well.

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    Re: Help upgrading my pc using as little £ as possible

    Corsair and Crucial usually are good makes and has good compatability. I just looked at the specs of your computer and it says that it will only take pc2700 ram(ddr333) ram.

    According to the Crucial online tool each 1gb PC2700 dimm will cost £21.14.So 2gb will be £42.28 including postage:

    http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/list...spx?model=3316

    If you buy from Crucial you can get 7% cashback from Quidco!!

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