Upgrade To Dual Core

Twist86

Twist86

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Hello everyone this is my little brothers PC he plans to upgrade.

I am buying these 3 items the budget is 200 USD and its mainly a upgrade from a old 939 socket Athlon 3000+ single core to a am2 board.

Now the items he is upgrading are these 3
Motherboard
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3672390&sku=S458-1302

Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211188

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103776

He uses a PSU my sister uses its a
430 Wat Thermeltake PSU
Link to it
http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Power/TR2power/w006970/w006970.asp


My question is can the PSU handle these items?

Also would it still be able to handle his 7900GS or a 7600GT 256mb?
 
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Provided he's not running tons of HDD and optical drives, or super-charged GPU's, yes, it will be fine.
 
Well he has like 1 dual burn drive a 160gb HD and a evga 7600GT 256mb GPU.

When he gets the funds he will upgrade the PSU and the GPU.
 
It should be fine for now, but when he gets the money, (if he only has enough money for one of them at the time). Make him get the PSU I recommend a 600W.
 
well he plans to get the PSU then the GPU but the motherboard-cpu-memory will be the first purchase.

I just want to make sure he can still do some gaming with his 7600GT GPU till he can update his PSU and then finally his GPU.
 
Twist86 said:
well he plans to get the PSU then the GPU but the motherboard-cpu-memory will be the first purchase.

I just want to make sure he can still do some gaming with his 7600GT GPU till he can update his PSU and then finally his GPU.
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Sounds good
 
vk3fcll said:
The items look fine.... just the PSU might want to be upgraded to at least 550W.... :cool:
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Nope, 430W is perfectly fine, I've had that same PSU with a 7600GT and I had no problems. ;)

As for the build, I have a better one:

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116036

RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098

TOTAL w/shipping: $201.64

The 4GB of RAM are really not needed yet. 2GB are fine for now, and will be cheaper. If you fell the comp is running slow later on, you can always add the extra 2GB.
 
Well, I don't know if this even counts but I got a 14 second decrease in SuperPI time from my X2 3800+ to the E2160, both on stock.
 
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