Socket 939 Mobo's

G~MAN

G~MAN

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Whats up with the complete lack of CPU's for sale these days for this socket! It's old now obv but only two years! I cant find a decent CPU anywhere for my mobo!

What and where can you recomend I go, kinda looking to do a little upgrading on my comp

Check my sig for specs, but was assuming another gig of ram, 8800GT and a new CPU would do the trick to run COD4 and possibly Crysis even if it isnt at top gfx!
 
Whats your budget? May be worth saving and building a new rig as your gonna upgrade the core components.
 
Im not sure if I can suffice to building a new rig! So much moneys involved!

I mean, to play COD4 to a decent standard on my lil moniter, what dya think I should get? budget, well i dont really want to spend over £200 but I can push that up, need suggestions really on what you would do :)
 
And my gosh! I googled it and checked on some sites I know, all they had is the 3800!
 
If you can track down a FX-57 or 60, get it.
i upgraded from a 3500 to a FX-57 - not big jump, but it made a difference in games and apps
 
It has better performance im guessing, but the fact it isnt duel core kinda puts me off ... or is that not an issue
 
G~MAN said:
Im not sure if I can suffice to building a new rig! So much moneys involved!

I mean, to play COD4 to a decent standard on my lil moniter, what dya think I should get? budget, well i dont really want to spend over £200 but I can push that up, need suggestions really on what you would do :)
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TBH, £200 including an 8800GT dont leave a lot for the rest of the kit mate.

What res is your monitor?
 
Right mate, imo, if you can stretch to £250 or a little more then you should be able to do it. :)

Heres £220 worth of gear, add another 1gb RAM and your there.

What RAM do you have at the mo? Corsair what? Value? This maybe?

Part of the reason i said maybe you should save and upgrade id because 939/DDR kit is actually quite expensive now! That stuff i linked to about is £35 for 1gb DDR 3200. You can get 2gb of Geil DDR2 6400 from OcUK for £35!! THIS

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Personally i'd save your money, then go C2D, 8800GT etc and sell your old gear on ebay. I cant see the point in upgrading old tech personally. But its your money. The 8800GT's should come down in price sooner or later, as the new GTS's are out in a month or two.

But you pay your money you take your chance. :)
 
I dont pay VAT on a lot of computer things I buy so I guess I am lucky! If i bought that kit I wouldnt pay VAT so I think £200 or there abouts is alllll good

And my screen is TINY small small atm, I am looking to get a 19inch widescreen for xmas though.

And I understand your point, with the replacing and stuff, but i dont want to look at spending another £500 - £600 at the mo, even though I could use some of my old computer parts ... like the HDD, PSU and Case

How much would a rig like mine sell for? WOuld i be better off selling it as one unit, or selling the parts seperatley :O May be worth myself popping onto Ebay and finding out :P
 
Well if you want to buy something now, maybe get the GT and then get a new MB, CPU, RAM etc later

What size if your monitor atm? 15" 17"?
 
G~MAN said:
I dont pay VAT on a lot of computer things I buy so I guess I am lucky! If i bought that kit I wouldnt pay VAT so I think £200 or there abouts is alllll good

And my screen is TINY small small atm, I am looking to get a 19inch widescreen for xmas though.

And I understand your point, with the replacing and stuff, but i dont want to look at spending another £500 - £600 at the mo, even though I could use some of my old computer parts ... like the HDD, PSU and Case

How much would a rig like mine sell for? WOuld i be better off selling it as one unit, or selling the parts seperatley :O May be worth myself popping onto Ebay and finding out :P
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Get friends and family to chuck some xmas cash in the pot and go for one of the 22" Samsungs , you won't regret it .
Hasn't Mike the crunching king got a box full of dual core 939's he isn't using ?

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Mike heyyyyy - who is this Mike you speak of? Tell him he may have a customer! :P

And a diddy little 15 at the moment, it's so cute!

So if i were to get the GT, would the rest of my components bottleneck it a lot?
 
Mike's the American guy that camps at PCR now and again. :)

Your CPU and only having 1 gb RAM will bottleneck the card imo, I still say hang on, and save your cash imo.

But its up to you.
 
Hang on for what though?

May wait untill Febuary, b'day then! More money to spend :)

Well il buy COD4 and see how it runs, if its crap and lame il buy a 8800GT :p
 
Hang on until you got the cash to build a new pc. You managed until now aint ya?
 
I know, but I wanna play COD 4 without being ****ed off at how much the gfx sucks compared to Belloni's machine!

Not that I have COD 4 yet so I have no idea what it will run like on my rig :O Im assuming pretty poor, but you know may get lucky :p
 
Guess not, lemme borrow your disc tomorow when I pick you up then, just to see if it works! :p
 
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