Hi Gang,
I managed to get some nice system components to upgrade again my aging system ...
Dunno, if I mentioned before that I got myself an XFX 7800GS EE for AGP last year, but feeding it with my olden A7V333 and a Thorton 2400+ @ 2700+ simply doesn't cut it anymore and hence I started bidding on various items on ebay.
The board:
ASRock 939 Dual SATA2
60,- Euros
The adapter:
AM2CPU
25,- Euros
The CPU:
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ EE
75,- Euros
The RAM:
2x 1GB Patriot DDR2 800MHz CL5 PC6400
135,- Euros
The PSU:
Be Quiet ! P6-520W Dark Power
55,50 Euros
The Cooler:
new AMD standard Opteron Heatpipe
20,- Euros
so for a total of ~370 Euros, I got all I need to build a more modern powerhouse to feed my 7800GS and if you'd followed the links above, you'd noticed that the mobo is further upgradeable with a PCIe gfx card (even dual GPU boards are supported) and the AM2 CPU board is also said to run with AM2+ quad cores, once they'll get released, therefore, I think this is just the perfect upgrade in the long run.
Since not all items got delivered just yet, I'll update this thread over the time and you can bet your booty that I'll try to OC the heck out of it ...
Anybody feel free to comment on my choice of items and maybe even give a few pointers to what you think it would be worth to consider.
I managed to get some nice system components to upgrade again my aging system ...
Dunno, if I mentioned before that I got myself an XFX 7800GS EE for AGP last year, but feeding it with my olden A7V333 and a Thorton 2400+ @ 2700+ simply doesn't cut it anymore and hence I started bidding on various items on ebay.
The board:
ASRock 939 Dual SATA2
60,- Euros
The adapter:
AM2CPU
25,- Euros
The CPU:
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ EE
75,- Euros
The RAM:
2x 1GB Patriot DDR2 800MHz CL5 PC6400
135,- Euros
The PSU:
Be Quiet ! P6-520W Dark Power
55,50 Euros
The Cooler:
new AMD standard Opteron Heatpipe
20,- Euros
so for a total of ~370 Euros, I got all I need to build a more modern powerhouse to feed my 7800GS and if you'd followed the links above, you'd noticed that the mobo is further upgradeable with a PCIe gfx card (even dual GPU boards are supported) and the AM2 CPU board is also said to run with AM2+ quad cores, once they'll get released, therefore, I think this is just the perfect upgrade in the long run.
Since not all items got delivered just yet, I'll update this thread over the time and you can bet your booty that I'll try to OC the heck out of it ...
Anybody feel free to comment on my choice of items and maybe even give a few pointers to what you think it would be worth to consider.
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