upgrade advice

[Keaton]

Ok, I know I tried this before, but since I don't have any experience with computer hardware, I'll let you talk it through me.

I have a budget of about £500, but that is flexible if need be, and a 5 year old computer. The computer is too old to be of any use, so I want to just replace most of whats in the case, besides my DVD/CD-R drive and floppy drive, at the moment I would like to keep them to save a bit of money.

I was thinking on the lines of AMD 64 bit CPU, for price and future proofing, but I really don't know much about hardware, but I am trying to learn, honest! The machine is to be used for college, games, online games and 3D studio max/Maya (for college).

I do realise that this is my second thread, so if it is not welcome I urge the mods here to delete it. I am also doing this from a library, my pc dosn't go online until the 22nd, 500k broadband is the best I could afford

 

[IAM_7154]

newegg.com
if you dont need a case or any optical drives, you should be able to do ok, and you dont need to rush on the amd64, wait for the price drops

 

[MasterJason]

get a amd 3200+ 90nm, A nforce 4 board , a 6600gt and some good ram

 

[Keaton]

newegg only ships to america, but is it still a good place to compile a shopping list?

 

[MasterJason]

overclockers.co.uk

 

[Keaton]

Forgive me for copying long details, but you mean this:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-097-AM) (Socket 939) £129.95

Which would mean I would want a socket 939/nforce 4 mother board, right?

 

[MasterJason]

Forgive me for copying long details, but you mean this:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-097-AM) (Socket 939) £129.95

Which would mean I would want a socket 939/nforce 4 mother board, right?

Yes thats it.
Yip you would need a nforce 3 or 4 board

 

[Keaton]

Could you recommend a board, or should I expect to pay avout £108 for something like this:

Asus A8N-SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard

 

[neosteve]

Well if your not getting SLI then get a nForce 4 Ultra chipset motherboard.

The DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D should do perfectly then.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Socket_939.html

And yes you could expect to pay £108 or more for that asus board

Neosteve

 

[MasterJason]

That board is ok, But try get a MSI Neo4 or a DFI nf4 Ultraboard if you can fit in in the budget