new pc options ?

[fudge]

i have now been looking at building a new pc again.
mine is now about 5 years old

i would be keeping my hdd's, dvd drives and PSU from my current one.
i have spec'd this one

1 x Asus M5A97 PRO 970 Socket AM3+ 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
1 x AMD FX-6 6100 Black Edition 6 Core 3.3Ghz Socket AM3+ 8MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
2 x Corsair 8GB (2X4GB) DDR3 1866Mhz Red Vengeance Memory Kit CL9 1.5V
1 x Cougar 6XR9 Case - Red
1 x EXDISPLAY Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
1 x Sapphire HD 6570 2GB DDR3 DVI VGA HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card

this will be about 400-450
does anyone have any other surgestions of what to do

[vauxsqueeks]

Hi,
Not really, but you will probably find that a performance bottleneck in that system would be your old hard disk. I would suggest that you do buy at least 1 new SATA3 hard disk ( 6mbps ) transfer speeds+ for the operating system.

Also, check what the fastest ram you can plug I to your new motherboard is and buy that, front side bus speed is also important if you are gaming and want to squeeze as much out of it as possible.

As an example, my last computer was a n Intel p4 3ghz, average graphics card, 1gb hard disk. I was not playing any very new games but first person shooters is my preferred style.

I was getting around 25 frames per second on graphics and it was a bit choppy every now and again. So I bought a Gygabyte Geforce DDR3 460chipset 1GB card. This improved the FPS to around 33, so better and wasn't choppy any more.

I later upgraded to an AMD 3.2 6core processor, mother board, 4gb ram. As a test I used the old graphics card and got about the same FPS, around 33 as the old computer. When I plugged in the new graphics card then I was seeing FPS rates of up to 300.

If you are not looking to squeeze every last bit out of it, then what you have will be good. If not..

1. FSB, this is the speed that the data can travel between components like, CPU, memory, graphics card
2. At least SATA3 spec hard disk or it's like having an F1 car, with a Fiat 126 engine. You'll get there eventually.. ( make sure the motherboard can support it also)

3. Running slower ram will force the motherboard to run at the speed of the slowest component.

All depends on what you will do with it. Also remember if the software you use does not take advantage of multicore processors or threading then you'll be running on 1 cylinder for that program.

4. Update you os to x64 bit to take advantage of other features..

[fudge]

well i dont use it for any high end games. i am just going for a new one, as mine is starting to go, slowly
and as for hdd's i was going to get some one ones after i had the pc up and running.
as mine i have got no prob with the 5 hdd's im using.
just think it is the time to upgrade
and for ram, it is not the farstest speed it will support, but it is the farstest with that cpu

[PaulHooligan]

Me and a load of my gaming mates have all upgraded recently and after a lot of deliberation and research we all agreed that the best "bang for buck" upgrade was roughly as follows...

Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3 Z68 Socket 1155 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
16GB of Crucial 8GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz Ballistix Sport Memory Kit
Intel Core i5-2500K
120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD

We went Sandybridge CPU as opposed to Ivybridge as there have been rumours of the new CPU producing LOTS of heat.

Hope this helps

[fudge]

apart from i want to stay away from intel cpu's that sounds ok,

[PaulHooligan]

Now why stay away from Intel? Over the past few years they have stolen a march on AMD and pound per meg they run faster.. Dont let old opinions or bias cloud your judgement

[vauxsqueeks]

I would just like to add that I bought my AMD 3.2 x6 core PC before I started working for "an Intel" company

So we all know what my next upgrade will be..