New upgrades

[bigdan676]

Hi all, I am looking to upgrade my current PC my budget is around £400, and I don't need a Graphics card as I will be keeping the 8800GT. I thought about these,

CPU - E8400
MOBO - Abit IP35 Pro
HDD - Samsung F1 750GB SATA HDD
Case - Antec 1200
And Vistaa 64Bit

Any ideas/improvements?

Regards
Dan
:)

[PeterStoba]

Only thing I would change personally is the motherboard!

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+(Intel)/Asus+P5Q+PRO+iP45+Socket+775+Motherboard+?productI d=32295

More features for less

You could, but not needed, upgrade to 1TB for £21.15 more

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/1TB+Samsung+Spinpoint+F1+SATA2+7200RPM+32MB+cache+ ?productId=30998

Nice upgrades though! :)

EDIT: if you aren't planning on using the old components for anything you could sell them and upgrade to a 4850...

[bigdan676]

Thanks for the reply, i doubt i will need that much strange, i have got a file server with 1TB and with all four computers plus two laptops and i am not filling half that.

What features does that ASUS motherboard have over the Abit?

Not bothered about a new GFX card yet as this one does everything that i want it too.

Regards
Dan
:)

[PeterStoba]

New P45 chipset, more overclocking headroom, more sata/usd ports etc, crossfire support

[marsey99]

its a p45 chipset so it pretty much has everything, offical support upto ddr1200, 1600 fsb, pcie 2 and a host of overclocking options that arent open to misuse on older boards :)

[Mul.]

I'd spend the extra £6 buying the Asus P5Q-E over the P5Q Pro
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/Asus+P5Q-E+iP45+Socket+775+Motherboard+?productId=32296

Better board layout and has most of the features of the more expensive Deluxe.

[bigdan676]

I'd spend the extra £6 buying the Asus P5Q-E over the P5Q Pro
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/Asus+P5Q-E+iP45+Socket+775+Motherboard+?productId=32296

Better board layout and has most of the features of the more expensive Deluxe.

Thanks mul, yea i agree on the motherboard layout, I will look more into that motherboard and then il take it from there.

Regards
Dan
:)

[marsey99]

nice mul, thats alot of board for the price.

[Mul.]

If money allowed and Nehalem wasn't round the corner I'd probably quite like to buy one of those P5Q-E's. My DFI's been coughing and spluttering for a while now. :|

£89 is indeed very decent for a board with this feature set. Quite like the Asus based linux idea as well (Express Gate).