My latest upgrades!

Geoff

Geoff

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I decided to bite the bullet and finally build a nice gaming rig, but I just wanted to add a few upgrades.

I upgraded from a:
Sempron 2500+ to a Core 2 Duo E6300
Socket 754 micro-ATX to a LGA775 ATX
768MB DDR400 to 1GB DDR400
60GB IDE to a 160GB SATAII

The total cost to upgrade this was $285. The reason I bought the ASRock motherboard was so I could use my existing DDR RAM, and my current AGP video card. When the quad-cores and DX10 come out, I will upgrade the motherboard, RAM, and video card. The x850XT PE is still a very strong card, so I decided to keep it. My parts should be here in a few days.

:D
 
Sweeet

Makes me wanna upgrade one of my old extra systems. If only I just had $245 to waste.....oh crap.... :P I'm...not...gonna....do.....it.....can't.....justify....crap....ARRRG!!!!
LOL. Read my quote in the sig......
 
Calibretto said:
Very nice! Looks like a solid setup. Are you planning to sell any of the old stuff?
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The only thing I have left over is the Sempron, Mobo, and 60GB HD, which im planning to use for a MCE PC for our new TV.

diduknowthat said:
Now you don't have to run CSS at the same fps at min and max graphics anymore :)
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Yay! :D

Burgerbob said:
Talk about a bottleneck though, that doesnt really make any sense.
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Theres virtually no difference when it comes to games between DDR and DDR2. in fact, some low latency DDR outperforms high clocked DDR2 in terms of FPS. I chose that motherboard because I didnt want to sepdn more money on DDR2 RAM, and a PCI-E video card, when my DDR and AGP card will be more then enough. Besides, this is sortof my "temporary" rig until the Core 2 Quadro and DX10.
 
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