350 to spend need help upgrading

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etzelr1990

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Im looking to upgrade my current system on a tight budget, any advice would be great.

Intel Dual Core Pentium 2.5ghz E5300
2gb supertalent 800mhz
gigabyte intel G31 chipset
bfg 8600gt superclocked
500 watt stealth stream power supply ocz
 
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Fatback

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Here is what I would do

New motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128342

New CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103648

New RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227199

New Graphics Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102824

Extra Hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136113


Total comes to around $340+shipping which should be only $8-$9 because everything has free shipping but the HDD. With these upgrades you will be able to do just about anything you won't.
 
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etzelr1990

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Recently been just gaming not hardcore because ofcourse I cant I had a budget of around 300 dollars for a full computer when my power supply sparked im looking for something around the build suggested by lovely however my currently mobo doesnt support pci express 2.0
 
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etzelr1990

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etzelr1990 said:
Recently been just gaming not hardcore because ofcourse I cant I had a budget of around 300 dollars for a full computer when my power supply sparked im looking for something around the build suggested by lovely however my currently mobo doesnt support pci express 2.0
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id like to be able to play waw currently im stuck on source and worse games
 
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daisymtc

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Are you currently got the PC at your sign? Or you already got the E5300 set-up?

If you already got E5300, i suggest you OC E5300 and upgrade Video card to ATI 4870 512MB
 
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lovely?

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etzelr1990 said:
Recently been just gaming not hardcore because ofcourse I cant I had a budget of around 300 dollars for a full computer when my power supply sparked im looking for something around the build suggested by lovely however my currently mobo doesnt support pci express 2.0
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it actually doesnt matter. the video card will use PCI-e X16 instead of 2.0 then.

the other build would be ok, but the ram, video card, motherboard, and hard drive are all lackluster. the 250gb would probably perform much worse than your current setup.
 
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etzelr1990

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Is there honestly a huge difference between the two or just i should upgrade to 2.0 when i can. And yes I already have the 5300 setup. also i forgot to list that I still have the 250 gig hard drive.
 
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daisymtc

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etzelr1990 said:
Is there honestly a huge difference between the two or just i should upgrade to 2.0 when i can. And yes I already have the 5300 setup. also i forgot to list that I still have the 250 gig hard drive.
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I don't think it worth upgrade to another LGA775 mobo just for PCI-E x16 2.0 as LGA 775 come to dead end soon. The differnece is not huge.
So, upgrading video card should be fine.
Saving up the money, your next upgrade would probably be core i5/ phenom II with DDR3 RAM
 
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etzelr1990

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daisymtc said:
I don't think it worth upgrade to another LGA775 mobo just for PCI-E x16 2.0 as LGA 775 come to dead end soon. The differnece is not huge.
So, upgrading video card should be fine.
Saving up the money, your next upgrade would probably be core i5/ phenom II with DDR3 RAM
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Okay thank you very much
 
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