Pc Upgrade

[jonc]

Am looking to upgrade my pc soon if my funds work out that is.I wil have hopefully about £300. to £370. ish.I would like to try and save what i could from my pc i have at the moment to save money.I dont no much about Pc spec e.t.c but i was loking at the Amd x2 proc but am not sure which way to go with this update so any help please.Iive always gone with Amd put with the Dual core Prc- whats best now Intel or Amd

This what i have at the moment

Proc..AMD Athlon 64 Pro 3200+
MB.....cant remember
G.card....Nvidia Geforce 600Gt 256 agp
memo...2x ddr 512 [not sure what tpye it is]
2 hardddrive e.t.c

[kejot]

well i always use to go for amd for the price/perfomance ratio, but i got a dual core intel other month, and its great,and runs really cool (see other threads about that)

im in the process of changing all my pc;s over to intel, and there are some inte bargins to be had if you go for the older dual core rather than duo, there is also a few m/b's about with both agp/pci-e slots, so that would save abit without having to get new card an dif u have ddr400 it can be re-used

i would go for

intel p4 dual core/duo ( depends on budget)
asus/asrock m/b one that would take 65nm chips, so if u get dual u can upgrade when price drops
at least 1gig ddr 533 matched pair

[thetarget]

im in the process of changing all my pc;s over to intel


what you doing with your old amd boards and cpus ?

[jonc]

I want it to beable to handle the new pc games comeing out Crysis plus the usel everyday pc stuff if ye know what i mean.....whats the differnts between older dual core and the new 1

[kejot]

@the target, im selling them m8

@jonc the main differances are the cost, die size and heat output

in day to day use and gaming most people cant tell the differance, but have look here at 2 processors

_http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?il-ppd28&P=1

_http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?il-e6600&P=1

but as duo dould knock 2/3rds of your budget out.............

_http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?IL-E6300

[jonc]

Sorry about this so apart from the prize what the differnts between these 3 proc what ever pc i get am hoping it will last a good few years

[kejot]

the main differance is the die size, down to 65nm in new duo core, so less power needed and so less heat, so less fan noise/size, all processors are going to the 65nm die, so a motherboard that allows that die will have a better upgrade route, but you could get a 90nm dual core chip and m/b for about 3rd of duo & m/b setup and not really see any differance, and then do the normal upgrade path of replacing the lot later