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Hi,

Just a thought but would me upgrading from AMD 4450B CPU to a Phenom ii x4 9600 be worth Â£115 ?

Aparently it is the best processor for my m/b, the rest of my specs are:

Asus M2N68-LA (Narra3)
Windows 7
OCZ 700w psu
Corsair 4gb RAM
OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB ssd
Western digital 1tb h/d
XFX HD 4890

I dont think the rest of my system is to shabby, just picked up things a bit at a time did'nt wanna spend to much on it but manged to get some bargins :) i've managed to get that lot for under Â£200 threw work, friends and ebay, but i know it's not bad but also starting to get old, I mean it's not even DDR3 which is making me think do i just hang on and save abit more then start with a new m/b ?

http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productde...categoryid=484

This is the cheapest place i can find one, if anyone can think where it might be cheaper that'll be great, but also is it worth it ? What do you guys think ?

Have a look on overclockers.co.uk Seems to be a whole lot cheaper than the site you posted.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...d=6&subid=1943

Thanks, but dont think it'll work, i cant have more than 95w and has to be am2 socket...

Whether it is worht an upgrade will largely depend on what you are trying to do with your PC. For example if a lot of your requirements are graphic based, especially reasonably modern games, you might find a different video card, that can support Windows 7 DX11 standard offers better value.

I would say the 2 main things is gaming and running music software such as reason 5...i'm very much into music production which can get abit cpu hungry when there's alot going on

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I mean it's not even DDR3 which is making me think do i just hang on and save abit more then start with a new m/b ?

Yeah, that's what I'd do if I were you.

With the cost of ddr3 so low compared to ddr2 I'd go for an am3 motherboard

Thanks, this was purely just an idea, I think I'll leave it and wait till after Xmas and start with a new m/b. again thanks for the input :)

The only time I've seen a cpu-only upgrade make any significant difference was whan I got Black Ops. Changed a dual core for a (slower) quad and it made the game play a lot smoother. Doing anything else on the machine I was hardly aware of any difference.

I would agree with others and go for the new board at the moment DDR 3 has come down really dirt cheap and DDR 2 has gone up in price.

I would have though Intel would have been better for a CPU upgrade if you are into music production there CPU's tend to be better than AMD but at a price of course

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Originally Posted by DaiNasty (Post 35324006)

B-ops was the reason I got a CPU upgrade I was running a geforce 260 with a 2.6 dualcore black edition over clocked to 3.2 and B-ops still ran laggy even on low settings.

I changed to a quadcore and it ran smooth as anything although I think I need a new graphics card as this geforce 260 doesn't like running battlefield 3 on ultra settings have to put things down to high and med setting