Raghajabooy's Rig

raghajabooy · 02-28-2006, 07:44 PM

My current Computer is a Athlon 64 3200+ socket 939, with 1gb of DDR Corsiar Dual channel, 120gb Seagate barracuda, Radeon 9550, Intergrated sound card (my Soundblaster live 5.1 digital died

). I am planning on upgrading it before june/july, so as its ready for Vanguard.

Neatton · 02-28-2006, 08:28 PM

Sounds alot like the rig I just upgraded from. How extensive are you planning on going with your upgrade? As far as Creative and there sound cards go dont get me started. I own an audigy simply because there is no other option. They killed the market

Down with creative!!

raghajabooy · 02-28-2006, 08:41 PM

I am planning to spend about $1500 - $2000(alot of money for me, still at school), I don't know what I am going to upgrade to. But i would like a dual core cpu and at least, I would like a SLI ready sytem even if only running 1 card.

Flagg · 02-28-2006, 10:22 PM

finally someone who has a worse comp then mine atm although sounds like yours might be better then what I plan on upgradeing too 8(

Neatton · 03-01-2006, 12:22 AM

With 2k this summer you should be able to build an entire new comp to about where my new comp is I would imagine prices will have dropped a little so that should be about right.

raghajabooy · 03-01-2006, 03:13 AM

I Hope the Prices hav dropped by then also.

rabb1t · 03-01-2006, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by raghajabooy

I am planning to spend about $1500 - $2000

You could buy a full system for that much.

Seriously, what you have is by no means poo. I recently got my X2 4600+ for ~$525, sold my old 3500+ 1st gen core for $140. If you do something similar, you are still only at around $400. Pop in a high end GPU, that's another $500. If you absolutely must by a new 939 board (which I don't see why you'd need one unless you are on AGP) that's another ~$150 (though if you are going to change the MB you likely would just want to build to an AM2 with DDR2-800), add on another gig at ~$100, bam, that is what (not counting MB) like ~$1,000 total.

You aren't all that behind save for graphics.

I'd say do that - up to X2, +1 gig ram, + new GPU - and then save the rest for a major upgrade at/beyond '08 when the next socket comes out and has DDR3 with PCI express generation 2.

Jaeth · 03-01-2006, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Flagg

finally someone who has a worse comp then mine atm although sounds like yours might be better then what I plan on upgradeing too 8(

I'm still on a laptop - and that's all I have. Feel better now?