FAO those of you who still keep up with PCs

If you don't even have DDR ram then please, for the love of god, just get a new PC...

Well I posted that before I'd finished. Ebuyer were knocking out a Dual Core Athlon 64 and mobo for £200 the other day. That, 2gb of DDR for £80 off of eBay from the USA, and depending on your GFX wants (I.e. do you want to play Battlefield 2) some form of card and you're laughing.

It's capable of taking DDR ram. IIRC when I put it together I either had some normal RAM knocking around or DDR was outrageously expensive.

$ for $ you are not going to get much of an increase in speed by messing with your current hardware. I'd start again. Keep the HDD as a 2nd drive perhaps??

New base units say from Ebuyer, or Dell would give you massive performance increase for less than 300 notes.

Tim..

I'm in the same situation, but with half a terrabyte of HDD space, and another 300gig removable USB drive I have to install, to move my MP3s to.

I hav a decent Tagan PSU, so the HDDs are getting kept, and I've going to stick a new card, 2gig DDR, and a 3200-3800+ CPU/mobo in.

Get a Intel Core 2 Duo - they are cracking! Just built one for a family friend any they fly! Have a google about them, Intel have finally managed to whoop AMD... (For the moment)

Justin.

Yep, I'm running one at 3ghz stable as a rock on the stock HSF combo at stock voltage and it kicks my 64x2 AMD system from here to somewhere very far away and back. There's more to come from it once the proper cooler arrives, then I can up the voltage a little and try for a bit higher (I had 3.15 out of it but I dropped it back down for now.)

Will it benchmark faster than my 1 year old 4800 dual core x2 athlon overclocked to a real 2.7 with cas 2 corsair 4gb mem (needs 64bit operating system), pair of geforce 7 xfs graphics, raid 0 on a pair of raptors for boot with 6 more serial ata2 250gb storage drives for movies (ahem) and other real work? If it does and it will run my 64bit windows (needed for my pro engineer solid modeling soft) then my board mem and cpu is for sale? Any takers?

Thing is I dont think it would. Or would it? At least if it did, not by enough to warrant another rebuild? But if so then I will!

I have heard they are pretty quick, but I'm worried that it might be a one way path, and also too much of an upgrade for a "repair" install to successfully handle.

I'm getting seriously tempted by an Apple Core Duo machine.

The idea of dual-booting Windows and OSX appeals lots.

The idea of running most Windows applications at near-native speed on the OSX desktop rocks even more.

Oh yes... Read all about it...

I don't know but it will benchmark faster than the current 64 bit FX chip from AMD at 1/2 the price.It's only got 2 gig of ram in it and that's CAS 4 and a single X1900XT but it shifts Oblivion smoothly enough at the native

Bah I went through 4 different mother boards and 3 CPUs and a mix of ATI and Nvidia cards on a single XP install with no stability issues (mainly to see just how much abuse XP will take before falling over and the answer was a lot)

Excellent then. Might look into it.

Eastenders DIVXs or you been doing a Larry Flynt impersonation?

Yup, reckoned to be the best thing since, well, since, erm... you get the picture.

Built one other day, very very quick.

Better than that, and I'm no IT guru, but their performance is more consistent. Probably because of two cores, eh? :-s

You mean like the X2 Athlon 64 cpus?