Hello everyone,
I am new to building my own system and would like to ask a few questions around this area. Firstly i own a CM Storm Case with dell 530s mobo with DualCore E5800 @stock speed (thanx to the very nice people at dell), 4x1 GB DDR2 800mhz and Asus HD6670 and 250gb Seagate and 1tb samsung hdd and OCZ modxtream 600w psu. I am not a hardcore gamer just a normal gamer but i love to multitask i.e. I produce music, browse the net, edit audio files etc at the same . as you propably could tell my pc is a bit slow for todays standard so i am looking to upgrade. However I am on a tight budget...
I was lucky enough to get my hands on a GB-890GPA AM3(says it supports AM3+ with bios updates) from a friend which saved me a lot of money... so i would like to know which is my best choice of cpu value for money that will work on this board and if it is worthwhile to do this?
Should I go for the heavily critisized BD FX series ?and if yes which one? ?? will the MB support the CPU ???
or should i go for and X4 Phenom???
Last case wait upgrade to and Intel Sandybridge once Ivybridge is releases???
I plan to keep all the other components i.e. cpu, psu but need to obviously upgrade the memory to DDR3...
THANX everyone in advance!!
I am new to building my own system and would like to ask a few questions around this area. Firstly i own a CM Storm Case with dell 530s mobo with DualCore E5800 @stock speed (thanx to the very nice people at dell), 4x1 GB DDR2 800mhz and Asus HD6670 and 250gb Seagate and 1tb samsung hdd and OCZ modxtream 600w psu. I am not a hardcore gamer just a normal gamer but i love to multitask i.e. I produce music, browse the net, edit audio files etc at the same . as you propably could tell my pc is a bit slow for todays standard so i am looking to upgrade. However I am on a tight budget...
I was lucky enough to get my hands on a GB-890GPA AM3(says it supports AM3+ with bios updates) from a friend which saved me a lot of money... so i would like to know which is my best choice of cpu value for money that will work on this board and if it is worthwhile to do this?
Should I go for the heavily critisized BD FX series ?and if yes which one? ?? will the MB support the CPU ???
or should i go for and X4 Phenom???
Last case wait upgrade to and Intel Sandybridge once Ivybridge is releases???
I plan to keep all the other components i.e. cpu, psu but need to obviously upgrade the memory to DDR3...
THANX everyone in advance!!