Is This The Right Time To Upgrade???

[caleb]

Wow...that's a lot of info to take in akshay...but I appreciate it very much. Anyway I made a dry run today to Lamington Road, Mumbai, asking each vendor for the following:
ASUS A8NE or Intel 945GNTL
AMD Athlon X2 3800 or Intel D805
GeForce 7600GT

Every dealer in Lamington road does have ASUS A8NE (this looks like a VERY popular card).
But NO ONE has AMD Athlon X2 3800 processor or Intel D805 processor or 945 GNTL mobo (I visited 20 different vendors), for some reason almost every vendor was trying to get me to buy Athlon 3200
Only one vendor said that he could get 7600GT if I could wait for 5 hours.
But to my surprise I found an AGP version of 7300GT DDR3

At the end of it I was so fed up that I was ALMOST tempted to buy the XFX GeForce 7600GT DDR3...but all the advise & suggestions from all of you held me back, and guess what, now I'm planning on upgrading when the DirectX 10 & Vista comes in (akshay had a point i.e. sell my current PC or parts, say for about 10k???, plus save up some more money, say another 10k, and then upgrade...that'll give me Rs.40000:
My curent budget Rs.20000+10000??from selling my current PC+another Rs.10000

What do you folks think?...you think Rs.40000 will get me a decent mid range gaming PC in 2007 i.e. after Vista & DirectX10 come in???

[akshayt]

1)A year down the line that hardware won't sell for as much, anyway your future savings will balance that out.

2)By 2007 end you will get what you are looking for. But the thing is that it is better to upgrade today, sell tomorrow and upgrade again after a yr. You won't get a decent mid range PC ever in 40k, but a lower mainstream PC with a mainstream/upper mainstream GPU.

[caleb]

Gentlemen,
One of my friends is having a distress sale for the following box packed items (all new never used, including the OS), so i want to ask you folks if this is a good buy:
Processor: Intel D805
Mobo: Intel D101Ggc
HDD: Samsung 120Gb SATA
Memory: 1Gb (512x2) Ram 400Mhz DDR (manufacturer is DYNET)
Graphics card: XFX GeForce 7300LE 256mb (can support upto 512mb when the sys memory is 1Gb)
PSU: Power Safe 400 Watts
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition
Pls respond ASAP...Thanks in advance

[Stalker]

^^wats the price 4 that??

[caleb]

Originally Posted by Stalker

^^wats the price 4 that??

Ooops forgot to put in the main thing: it's for Rs.19000/-
Well here is the whole thing again:
Gentlemen,
One of my friends is having a distress sale for the following box packed items (all new never used, including the OS), so i want to ask you folks if this is a good buy for Rs.19000/-:
Processor: Intel D805
Mobo: Intel D101Ggc
HDD: Samsung 120Gb SATA
Memory: 1Gb (512x2) Ram 400Mhz DDR (manufacturer is DYNET)
Graphics card: XFX GeForce 7300LE 256mb (can support upto 512mb when the sys memory is 1Gb)
PSU: Power Safe 400 Watts
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition
Pls respond ASAP...Thanks in advance

[akshayt]

No it is not a good buy. Don't get that CPU, I am unsure of the mobo as well. Don't need to get that HDD either. Everything is crap.

Do onething. Please give a final budget, requirement and usage. I will tell you what to do. Which city are you from?

[caleb]

Originally Posted by akshayt

No it is not a good buy. Don't get that CPU, I am unsure of the mobo as well. Don't need to get that HDD either. Everything is crap.

Do onething. Please give a final budget, requirement and usage. I will tell you what to do. Which city are you from?

Currently my budget is only Rs.20000/- (around 6 months down the line it'll be around 30k) I'm from Mumbai

[dOm1naTOr]

I think u can do it with ur current PC for that long. Get more mem to last that long. Intel's gonna launch quad core. Who knows u can even get some quad core or even more for that price after 6 months.

[akshayt]

you have 30k today after selling old components. actually it is much better to spend 40k 6months down the line

[rockthegod]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Well, I guess so too, the 7600GT will be better than the 6800GT, but maybe not 6800U
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yup.. its rite... 7600GT with its 12 pixel pipelines beats 6800GT with 16 pixel pipelines hands down due to much better core architecture and dX9.0c features support !!! Tested that fact myself and was extremely disappointed .... but 6800 Ultra is still unbeatable by 7600 GT becoz of its xtreme clock speeds[]

and my query is abt. AGP cards.... thr is only 7800 GS 256 MB AGP card retailing for abt. 300 USD... and I can't find ne other AGP card of 7x series.. IS it advisable to upgrade to a 7800 GS rite now or wait for the DX 10 cards to release so that I may need a complete system overhaul to welcome PCI-E architecture []

[akshayt]

7600GT should be more or less as good if not better. Don't both for such small differences.

[dOm1naTOr]

Ya...7600GT oc like hell. Its very stable after xreme oc nd the temp dun go beyond 60c even at 680/1600 core/mem. Tried that speed for a lil time only as the card is a brand new one i dun need that muh power currently in todays games with my monitor supporting max of 1280*1024. So now runnin at 620/1500 nd the temp is down at 50c even at full load.
I think an oced 7600GT could beat a 6800U.

[akshayt]

It depends, my friends 7600GT BSODed I think around 650 with ati tool

[rajat263]

hi,i have intel845gl motherboard with 256MB RAM.i want toknow upgrade my configuration & add 1GB RAM.should i add this to my present motherboard or buy another one bfore upgrading

[akshayt]

This is not the best time to upgrade, but for you it would be better to buy something now and do upgrades(major) soon after selling this stuff.