[mr.miyagi]

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[elstatec]

what you gonna do then miyagi? upgrade pc?

[gtboys34]

Originally Posted by geRV

Dual 1 gig 2900xt's here happy:

um, thought you had the 8800 gtx/s?

dude seriously, do you upgrade your pc like every fuckin night or some shit?

[elstatec]

WHERE DO GET THE MONEY FOR IT GERV, THE CORRECT AUTHORITIES WILL BE INFORMED UNLESS YOU TELL US.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by gtboys34

um, thought you had the 8800 gtx/s?

dude seriously, do you upgrade your pc like every fuckin night or some shit?

Can i have some of wha you're smoking? I bought an evga gtx ko edition from america which is pretty much the same as the 8800 ultra card, got it cheap because of the exchange rate being how it is, sold it on for more than i bought it for and bought the 2 2900's.

Not exactly hard to understand. eek:

[mr.miyagi]

Originally Posted by elstatec

what you gonna do then miyagi? upgrade pc?

I really don't know, I think I really need a new machine as I think the motherboard or hard drive on mine always seems to be having slight issues...

With all of these amazing games around the corner too I'd say now is the best time to upgrade if I was too. I just doubt I'd be able to sell my parts for very much at all.

Gerv has the right idea in buying parts and then replacing them quickly, selling off the older ones.......I should've done that over the year I guess annoy:

I wonder how much a solid rig would cost me now, with dual core cpu (i think quads are still a way off no?) and a half decent video card with 2 gig of ram....£400-500?

Hopefully I can afford that in the long run eek:

[ninty]

my quad core Q6600 arrived at my house yesterday and i bought it for $280 cdn. not a bad deal imo.

[mr.miyagi]

Originally Posted by ninty

my quad core Q6600 arrived at my house yesterday and i bought it for $280 cdn. not a bad deal imo.

ok well $280cdn = £130 which is good yeah?

But doesn't buying a Quad core system ramp up the prices? You'd need a quad core supported motherboard, how about Ram?


Things have changed a bit since a I last upgraded, example: PCI express, multi-core processors, etc

[KTOG]

|aM| reunion!

[ninty]

any board that supports dual core will more than likely support quad core. ram shouldn't make a difference either.

things have changed for me too. i think we may have built around the same time if i recall, i'm still using agp single core amd and i'm upgrading to quad core ddr2 pci-e so yeah.

ram is really cheap now a days too. 2x1gb for like $80

[geRV]

[quote="mr.miyagi":ff8a6]

Originally Posted by elstatec

what you gonna do then miyagi? upgrade pc?

I really don't know, I think I really need a new machine as I think the motherboard or hard drive on mine always seems to be having slight issues...

With all of these amazing games around the corner too I'd say now is the best time to upgrade if I was too. I just doubt I'd be able to sell my parts for very much at all.

Gerv has the right idea in buying parts and then replacing them quickly, selling off the older ones.......I should've done that over the year I guess annoy:

I wonder how much a solid rig would cost me now, with dual core cpu (i think quads are still a way off no?) and a half decent video card with 2 gig of ram....£400-500?

Hopefully I can afford that in the long run eek:[/quote:ff8a6]


Best way to do it is how i do it, have a card then sell it off before it loses too much of the asking price you can get for it. Cuts down the cost of the total system a ton.


You can buy a 3ghz core 2 duo for £177 from overclockers uk, more than adaquate for gaming since quads are only supported in supreme commander, even then their usage is minimal. Could probably price a system with a core 2 ,2 gig of ram and an 8800gts for around the price you're looking at paying.

[geRV]

Just checked on ocuk, you're talking around £542 for a new mobo, 2 gigs of ram, 3ghz core 2 and a 640mb gts.

Could get it down some with some compromises on cpu speed.

[ninty]

do it miyagi

[Bean 2]

whatever u do, dont get an Asus mobo, or more specifically the Asus P5N32E-SLI mobo. its giving me nothing but problems, which you know about from my thread about it.

[geRV]

Also penryn on november 11th

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8451


Mad the thermal requirements jump 40 watts for a measly 160mhz more on the cores. eek: