Okay, my current system is:
Gigabyte socket 754 mobo
AMD 64 3000+
Radeon 9550
512mb Crucial ddr pc3200 ram
250mb maxtor IDE hdd
Pretty standard dvd/cdrom drives.
I'm looking to upgrade significantly, I'm a keen gamer and my current setup just isn't cutting it with the games I play,(halflife 2, doom 3 and World of Warcraft.)
First of all I was just going to buy extra ram to boost it up to 1gb and buy a Geforce 6800 GT, but then I thought of the future. Socket 754 has limited upgradability now (as far as I know) so I'm considering building a 939 system.
With the future in mind, I decided SLI would be the type of system I would build, starting off with one Graphics card, and then when the future demands, adding another one to boost performance, rather than having to spend loads building a completely new system over again.
I was thinking of this spec.
Asus nf4 SLI mobo
AMD 64 3500+ socket 939
1gb Crossair XMS pc3200
xfx Gf6800 gt pci-e
Keeping my current hard drive/disk drives.
New case (undecided)
New powersupply will probably be required too.
Another of my worries is the sheer sound output that this system will create, would it be possible to make this pc ridiculously quiet? I'm willing to pay extra for that privaledge but I really do require it to be as quiet as possible (within my budget of course.)
Any suggestions, input?
My budget will be £1000 for this project, but would prefer to spend around £800.
Gigabyte socket 754 mobo
AMD 64 3000+
Radeon 9550
512mb Crucial ddr pc3200 ram
250mb maxtor IDE hdd
Pretty standard dvd/cdrom drives.
I'm looking to upgrade significantly, I'm a keen gamer and my current setup just isn't cutting it with the games I play,(halflife 2, doom 3 and World of Warcraft.)
First of all I was just going to buy extra ram to boost it up to 1gb and buy a Geforce 6800 GT, but then I thought of the future. Socket 754 has limited upgradability now (as far as I know) so I'm considering building a 939 system.
With the future in mind, I decided SLI would be the type of system I would build, starting off with one Graphics card, and then when the future demands, adding another one to boost performance, rather than having to spend loads building a completely new system over again.
I was thinking of this spec.
Asus nf4 SLI mobo
AMD 64 3500+ socket 939
1gb Crossair XMS pc3200
xfx Gf6800 gt pci-e
Keeping my current hard drive/disk drives.
New case (undecided)
New powersupply will probably be required too.
Another of my worries is the sheer sound output that this system will create, would it be possible to make this pc ridiculously quiet? I'm willing to pay extra for that privaledge but I really do require it to be as quiet as possible (within my budget of course.)
Any suggestions, input?
My budget will be £1000 for this project, but would prefer to spend around £800.