Upgrade.

Ye, obviously the specs that he gave will be a bit faster, but he said his budget is tight and I would then be looking at these pasts, cause the AMD 6000 isn't that slow and I know I struggled to get a C2D for that price with decent performance.
 
Aaahhh, wait, just remembered, he has a socket 939 mobo, so the 6000+ won't work on it. My argument was that he already had the mobo, but obviously he will need another mobo for the 6000+ as well.

Brawler, go with the specs you have. If you can find the R500 somewhere, I would go for the ATI 4850.
 
Yup. The whole 939 thing sucks.

Might just get a 4850 now and upgrade the rest properly at a later stage.
 
Will work, but you CPU will then be your biggest bottleneck with crysis. Also keep in mind the power requirements for the 4850.
 
Brawler said:
Right. PC needs upgrading.

Currently Athlon X2 3800+ s939, 2gb corsair ddr1, 8600GT, Gigabyte k8n-sli, 320gb sata, dvdrw sata, Aopen 400W, Thermaltake case

Would like to play most new games, ie COD w@w 1680x1050

Budget: tight

Heres what I have come up with so far:

-Intel Pentium E5200 - Dual Core 2.5GHz R1041 @landmark
-GIGABYTE® "S Series" G31 & ICH7 Express Chipset - Socket LGA775 R780 @ Prophecy (In my experience not worth buying top end board unless overclocking or have extreme hardware)
-Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 - XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 R600 @ landmark
-Inno3D 9800GT 512MB nVidia GeForce 9800GT GPU R1750 @ landmark (would prefer 4850, but its quite a bit more $ atm)

Any thoughts/suggestions?
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The 4850 is 2.1k at prophecy
 
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