I am having a few problems with my system freezing up and have tried many things to stop it. The only thing that seems to work is under clocking my system running the bus speed at 100 rather than 133. It wasn't a very hight spec machine any way so now I think I am going to upgrade.
Basically I want advice on what to get and make sure it all fits together nicely and is compatible. Ok here is what I need to buy:
MotherBoard
CPU
Power Supply
DDR Ram
Sound Card
Extra CPU Fan ???
Windows XP?
Here is what I want to keep from my current system:
The Case
Graphics Card (Radeon 8500LE)
Floppy Drive
CD ROM
CD RW
80 Gig HDD
20 Gig HDD
USB Stuff
I really want to have a system that is going to last me the next couple of years so maybe 2ghz plus with 3/4 to 1 gig of memory. I mainly use it for games and am quite happy with my graphics card at the moment even though it is getting out of date. I think I want to update the rest of the stuff first and can't really afford both.
Any suggestions of places to buy cheap kit (I am in the UK) and recommendations of what to buy would be great. I hope to keep to a budget of around maybe £300 but could stretch to a bit more if needs be.
Thanks in advance.
Basically I want advice on what to get and make sure it all fits together nicely and is compatible. Ok here is what I need to buy:
MotherBoard
CPU
Power Supply
DDR Ram
Sound Card
Extra CPU Fan ???
Windows XP?
Here is what I want to keep from my current system:
The Case
Graphics Card (Radeon 8500LE)
Floppy Drive
CD ROM
CD RW
80 Gig HDD
20 Gig HDD
USB Stuff
I really want to have a system that is going to last me the next couple of years so maybe 2ghz plus with 3/4 to 1 gig of memory. I mainly use it for games and am quite happy with my graphics card at the moment even though it is getting out of date. I think I want to update the rest of the stuff first and can't really afford both.
Any suggestions of places to buy cheap kit (I am in the UK) and recommendations of what to buy would be great. I hope to keep to a budget of around maybe £300 but could stretch to a bit more if needs be.
Thanks in advance.