Time to Upgrade

[1921Photoelectric]

Time to upgrade, I want to spend about $1000.00 to $1200.00. I want to over clock my main use?s are chief architect, cad, and ripping video. I?m keeping my hard drives, WD raptor 74, Seagate120 and a Maxtor 200, my dvdrw, My power 400 watt Enermax, and my 2 gig Corsair XMS memory. Basically I need CPU, MB, Video card/ cards. What are your suggestions? Right now I have a geforce 5900, a 2.8 Pentium oc to 3.2 and a Abit ic7g mb. As far as cpu?s Amd or Intel don?t matter. I?m not loyal to either camp, thanks. P-E-A-C-E. (91post since 2000 I'm real talkative)

 

[996GT2]

CPU: AMD AThlon X2 3800+ or Opteron 165
Motherboard: DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D
Graphics card (If you don't game much and you want to save some money: nVidia 6800GT (Flash to Quadro for CAD)
If you do want to play games at high settings:

nVidia 7900GT or ATi X1800XT

Also, you could buy a 7900GTX and try to flash it to a Quadro FX4500, but I'm not sure if that will work.

Total is around $720 (less if you get 6800GT), so you should be well under budget if you just need the 3 things you mentioned.

 

[bamacre]

You mentioned video cards, but not gaming. Do you, do you not play games?

 

[1921Photoelectric]

No I don't playgames, unless you call Solitaire a game. my uses are pretty basic the three I said above. Chief Architect,CAD and ripping. 996GT2 about flashing to quadro, thanks have to search the fourms more on that idea.

 

[Bobthelost]

4600X2
4GB value RAM
A8NE
Graphics card of some sort.

CPU = same clock speed as the 4800X2, the cache rarely makes all that much difference.
RAM = I'm assuming you use more than 2GB at the moment, if not then either reuse your current stuff or get 2GB of RAM, Value RAM is the best bang/buck, but faster RAM wouldn't hurt you either.
Motherboard = Assuming no overclocking so all you have to do is find one with the features you like, don't go SLI for god's sakes.
Videocard = The cheapest there is for you, nicer cards have better graphics outputs and hardware decoding for some videos, but i'd just get a X300.