What do you think of this PC? (upgrade for DX10)

I know some of you may have seen my other topic a while ago claiming that I spent ?000 on a PC! ... :roll: Well thats my brothers PC and know that hes back from his holiday hes took back the PC to his place and now Im stuck with this:-AMD Athlon 3400+ 2.2Ghz-1024mb RAM 533mhz-POV 7600gt 256mb.......*specs below are from what Im going to uprade it to:*-Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.0Ghz OR AMD X2 5000+ (can afford both but cant choose)-2048mb RAM 677mhz-8600GTS OC-2x 160GB HDD 7200rpm Samsung-Wizzard Delux Case 600 Watt PSU + 2x 80mm Fans .......*Im hoping this new rig is good enough for Medium setting's @ 1280*1024 (19LCD) on the following games:*-Crysis-UT3-Hellgate londonWould this new rig be able to pull it of or is there something I should change.PS: I cant afford a 8800GTS at the moment but will upgrade in about half a year to it.What do you think of this PC? (upgrade for DX10)
Go with the AMD 5000Your rig will be goodWhat do you think of this PC? (upgrade for DX10)
I would suggest the e4400 due to overclocking capabilities, but wouldn't you have to get a new motherboard?
[QUOTE=''CassiusGaius'']I would suggest the e4400 due to overclocking capabilities, but wouldn't you have to get a new motherboard?[/QUOTE] Thats true, if you are going intel, you haven't said what motherboard you are going to get with it.
[QUOTE=''G013M''] [QUOTE=''CassiusGaius'']I would suggest the e4400 due to overclocking capabilities, but wouldn't you have to get a new motherboard?[/QUOTE] Thats true, if you are going intel, you haven't said what motherboard you are going to get with it.[/QUOTE] The mother boards dont need to be stated ill change them depending on what CPU I chose to get, Simple as.
If this is an upgrade for DX10, you do not want to get the 8600GTS or any of the midrange cards offered by Nvidia and ATI. There isn't any real DX10 games out yet so you can't be sure yet how they'll peform but the way it looks only the high-end DX10 cards should be bought for DX10 games, the likes of the 8600's and 2600's won't be able to cope with DX10 games. If you are going to be overclocking the E4400 if not my choice would be the x2 5000+
Go with e4400 and Overclock it, also get another PSU not that Deluxe, Corsair 520W is good enough or Antec EarthWatts 500W

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