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Posted: **03 Sep 2006, 20:55**

Aha, Sabin finally registers an account.

sapphire x1600 is only about $150 CAD, shipped, taxed, etc. A good buy, for sure. It'll give you a better boost than you'll get from equivalent cost in CPU and memory.

Posted: **04 Sep 2006, 05:19**

Falknir wrote:I offer the following about replacing your CPU. You can easily, stably overclock a dual-core Intel Pentium D 805 / 2.66GHz / revision B0 / 64-bit / Socket 775 to above 4.0 GHz, which today costs around $100 USD. Of course, over clocking that particular processor above the 4 GHz barrier requires a liquid cooler of around $100 to 200 USD to achieve stability or control overheating. You can however stability overclock to around 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz with a good $50 heat pipe based cooler with fan(s), and it would equal most processors in power that cost around $750+ USD.

You would need at least a good motherboard that can manage such support for the Intel Pentium D 805, which should cost around $100 to $200 USD. If you need a list of specific motherboards from various manufacturers, I will do so, but a lot of the newest Asus Intel motherboards should support this processor and it├óÔé¼Ôäós over clocking.

The new motherboard would also open up your options for video cards (PCI-E x16 capable) and memory, well, that is if you are willing to save up a few hundred dollars. You don├óÔé¼Ôäót have to take this information to heart; it├óÔé¼Ôäós a cheap and reasonable upgrade recommendation, which you don├óÔé¼Ôäót have to agree with. It is about the best bang for your buck presently and offers a lot of upgrade potential without having to make major replacements over the years.

Okay, im wondering if its a good TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR upgrade. Im not buying an entire motha-snaken computer. And if i were to buy a new computer ( which i will ) id rather a conroe and a 7900.

Caydr , i'll keep that in mind. the x1600.

Posted: **04 Sep 2006, 21:55**

Yeah, wasn├óÔé¼Ôäót sure you where looking for a short-term solution upgrade for your computer├óÔé¼Ôäós ills or suggestions for cheap and powerful upgrades. By far, the recommendations that where made by me would put you just below the performance of an Intel E6600 ├óÔé¼┼ôConroe├óÔé¼┬Ø, but cannot remember the exact figures for an exact comparison.

Of course, with you planning on building a new computer with a larger budget at some unknown point in the future. That is a very, very different situation then what was being lead to.

Any case, Caydr is correct with the suggestion to replace your potential video card upgrade with a ATI X1600 256/512MB AGP, which has a significant performance gain over the older ATI 9600XT.

One question, when do you plan on building that new computer?

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Good computer upgrade?