okMy mate would like to up grade his computer, so this is what he needs: Mobo (must be PCI-E) CPU RAM HDD (150gb at least ...) His budget is £200, is that possible? Also he know hes wants and AMD, but i know the AM2 has jsut be realeased, how are they looking? thanks EDIT- Also he will be building in his Dell dimension case (yes super cool ) , now is taht a mATX case or a normal ATX??
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3000BPBOX) (CP-117-AM) £72.79 Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK) £43.42 OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK) £56.34 Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A31637) (HD-001-HI) £50.47 Total inc VAT: £223.03 Overclock that and you have a winner for that price!
Impossible, especially considering this... Apart from that, what else does he have: GFX, keyboard, etc?
Further to hp7909, i was under the impression that Dell used non-standard cases and PSU's. Is this not the case? Is that what you're alluding to?
Nice little AM2 rig CP-162-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.80GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-162-AM) £66.95 £66.95 MB-145-AS Asus M2NPV-VM Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-144-AS) £59.95 £59.95 MY-000-PA Patriot Signature 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (PSD21G667K) (MY-000-PA) £55.95 £55.95 HD-025-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD040GJ 40GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-025-SA) £25.95 £25.95 Subtotal £208.80 Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.25 VAT £37.99 Total £255.04
pretty good, thanks he changed it to some generic one coz he added a PCI graphics card, toa 500W , would that be enuff?
the AM2 performance is comparable to the same named 939 chip, marginally quicker but nothing you'd notice. HOWEVER the advantage of going AM2 is that you get the current, therefore longer supported, socket.
It won't really be a bottleneck as you should be able to overclock the venice (bare in mind that nobody has a clue about how AM2 motherboards overclock atm) I'd also consider a larger hard drive if you prefer BigDom's AM2 spec which is more future proof and upgrade-able. Bare in mind that AM2 holds a 1% performance gain over socket 939, so a 3000+ venice on the new socket AM2 will be perform virtually the same as a 3000+ venice on the mature socket 939
ok cool, but how about the DDR2 ?? is that much faster than the normal DDR?? i will try and persuade him to get a smaller HDD ...
