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Upgrade help with old mobo hunt

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/upgrade-help-with-old-mobo-hunt.96756/

choudang
choudang Original post #1
Aug 30, 2008 at 7:17 PM
guys.. i need a help from you...

1. I had a Intel org D865GBF motherboard (2003) which was totally not repairable due to some R&D by my yng bro. Now he is using P4 HT 2.8 Gh with a 845 motherboard which now leading some serious issues while doing some high system using works like playing games, running pinnacle, Maya etc.

---- I am not able to find out any resources here @assam as i have been informed that this piece of mobo no longer exists, but i bliv it could be found @delhi/Bang'r etc. Can some one let me know abt this with cost, i will be going to Delhi on next week for office purpose and will try to find out.

2. I am trying to upgrade my pc for next 3 yrs for gaming/animation. so i need 4 important comp'nt.. Processor, Motherboard, RAM and PCI graphics card.... my budget is 20K for this 4 pieces. C2D with 965/975 mobo along with Nvidia/ATI.. will it be possible.
ps: games will be DIRT, GRID, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, upcoming NFS, Far Cry etc.

Thanks
Psychosocial
Aug 30, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Intel C2D E7200 + Palit N73 + 2GB DDR2 RAM + NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB GDDR3.

All games will run at maX on this.
choudang
Aug 31, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Thanks buddy... what will be the cost for these pieces....
Psychosocial
Aug 31, 2008 at 3:22 PM
C2D - 5.5k
RAM - 1.8k
Mobo - 4k
GPU - 8k