New set-up

[Rutski]

Hello guys,
 
I finally decided to upgrade ye olde PC.
I built it about 9 - 10yrs back (865PE Neo2-P Platinum Edition with 3.0GHz P4 and RX9800PRO) and realise there's only so far it can go now.
 
The fact that I'm restricted to a AGP graphics card was the biggest push.
 
Anyway... I've took the plunge and ordered some bits n bobs to upgrade and in true Rutski style have decided to ask for some advise when it's too late
 
I've ordered...
 
Asus M3A78-EM AMD 780G (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 920 2.8GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme CPU Cooler
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ "Superclocked" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) (I intend to add another in future)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Dual Channel Kit
Thermaltake Aguila VD1000BWS Black Middle Tower
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
 
Choice was made a lot with cost in mind. Rest of the bits im gonna salvage from old rig and from various boxes that seem to be accruing in the garage. Hopefully the new board should allow me to add and upgrade for a few years before I need to change again.
 
Please feel free to tell me where I went wrong and how I've just wasted loads of cash :crying:.
 
Anything else you would advise adding or which of these bits you would look to upgrade first? I will no doubt feel the need to spend some more money on it in the near future.
 
 
Cheers,
 
 
Rutski

[kregoron]

Hello guys,
 
I finally decided to upgrade ye olde PC.
I built it about 9 - 10yrs back (865PE Neo2-P Platinum Edition with 3.0GHz P4 and RX9800PRO) and realise there's only so far it can go now.
 
The fact that I'm restricted to a AGP graphics card was the biggest push.
 
Anyway... I've took the plunge and ordered some bits n bobs to upgrade and in true Rutski style have decided to ask for some advise when it's too late
 
I've ordered...
 
Asus M3A78-EM AMD 780G (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 920 2.8GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme CPU Cooler
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ "Superclocked" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) (I intend to add another in future)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Dual Channel Kit
Thermaltake Aguila VD1000BWS Black Middle Tower
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
 
Choice was made a lot with cost in mind. Rest of the bits im gonna salvage from old rig and from various boxes that seem to be accruing in the garage. Hopefully the new board should allow me to add and upgrade for a few years before I need to change again.
 
Please feel free to tell me where I went wrong and how I've just wasted loads of cash :crying:.
 
Anything else you would advise adding or which of these bits you would look to upgrade first? I will no doubt feel the need to spend some more money on it in the near future.
 
 
Cheers,
 
 
Rutski

Its a good build tbh, even tho, some might complain about the AMD processor, i still say its a fine piece of CPU, really a lot of performance for the money tho i might swap the 9800GTX+ out for a ATI variant, as you will be able to increase performance with things like Hybrid Crossfire (you run crossfire with the ATI gfx card and the onboard gfx card, around 5% added fps, but up too 15% in certain games)

[sulky_uk]

if you can afford it i would swap out the 9800 and get a 4 series ati or a gtx260/80 as the 9800 is just a rebadged 8800 according to a wide range of web sites including
 
toms hardware, guru3d, pcgamer among others
 
i know cause i had the same dillema when offered an upgrade from 8800 to 9800 when my comp bust, i went thru a lot of reviews to be told the same thing--- rebadged 9800
 
so i asked the company for a gtx260 oc as i felt 2x 9800 in sli didnt really give me an improvement over 2 x 8800 in sli!!
 
just my opinion
 
otherwise nice rig:D
 
but hell of an upgrade from what you had if you keep it the same

[GhostMjr]

I heard through the grape tree that the amd phenom 2 is currently as fast or slightly faster in some ways to the i7 chipset.

Also the amd motherboards are much cheaper around £60 for a top board.

[kregoron]

I heard through the grape tree that the amd phenom 2 is currently as fast or slightly faster in some ways to the i7 chipset.

Also the amd motherboards are much cheaper around £60 for a top board.

Indeed it is, in certain aspects its faster then Chipzillas i7
The Phenom II is actually a far more advanced CPU then i7, sadly thats the same reason they arent on top, they arent near the potential of the Phenom II architecture

Same reason i often refer to ATI over nVIDIA, the 48xx series is more advance and has a lot more potential to be unlocked


Im no DAAMIT fanboy, i just hold a great respect for the little firm