Hey,

Im looking to upgrade my processor's to do some gaming. Currently Im on a Pentium D 3.0 and the 6200 turbocache.

This is the 775 board so I was looking at the Core 2 Extreme 2.93 - was that not a $1000 priced chip when first released?

But Im not really up to date on the cards, last thing I heard was something about the G8 series being released.

Budget is around 15-20K

Expert recomendations please!

Thanks.

I just installed an XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition (factory OCed) in my computer and quite happy with it. Can finally play Crysis without it stuttering all over itself. Beginning first of next year the new 45nm Intel core 2 duos/quads should be available if you can wait a few months. About 9000 Baht for the 8800GT.

I just installed an XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition (factory OCed) in my computer and quite happy with it. Can finally play Crysis without it stuttering all over itself. Beginning first of next year the new 45nm Intel core 2 duos/quads should be available if you can wait a few months. About 9000 Baht for the 8800GT.

Thanks for your speedy reply.

Im not too sure if my mobo supports 45nm chips. We'll see in the next BIOS release.

Ill take a look at the 8800.

The 8800GT is indeed an excellent card, which will provide a huge upgrade to your existing 6200.

You could get a 2.4GHz quad-core for 9.800 Baht, your board doesn't seem to support 1333MHz FSBs which the new Core2 CPUs have.

edit: Actually, it doesn't have quad-core support according to the ASUS website...and I doubt you could pick up a cheap Extreme-edition CPU, so I guess a Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66GHz would be the way to go

Buy a Intel Core2Duo E4500 and push the FSB to 1066Mhz you would be a happy camper for 1 or 2 years, and increasing your current processor speed by 4 times. To increase graphical speed I say look at a good Nvidia 8600GT or GTS with DDR3 memory, this will again do the same 4 times speed increase without paying the top price.

Buying anything else at the moment is a waist of money, as current Intel Quad processors do not support SSE4 on which the software market is concentrating its Intel/AMD Quad support.

At current any software who uses SSE instructions witches the processor in limited single core mode, many multimedia/game programmers use MMX, SSE, SSE1/A/B, SSE2 and less but not forgettable SSE3 programming. With the second Quad core every core can handle its own multimedia instructions, so it core 1 is switched into multimedia mode core 2 to 4 can still process none multimedia code