Kris Douglas wrote: > > > On 19/11/2007, *Rob Beard* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I think after my PC died last week it's about time for an upgrade > (especially since my other half's Celeron I'm using is painfully slow!). > > Now I'm looking to upgrade to a dual core machine. As my old PC was a > Socket 754 Athlon 64 with DDR memory I'm going to have to replace my > board, CPU, memory and video card. > > Traditionally I've been a fan of AMD. I found their CPU's > price/performance ratio was top notch, although I can't help but notice > that AMD is getting trampled on a bit by Intel with the Core2 processors > and I really don't want to have to wait until the AMD Phenom is released > and prices have come down to a more reasonable level. > > I don't play games on my machine so I don't need anything fancy like > multiple video cards. I do play videos, music, browse the net and all > things like that. I'm trying to set my budget around the £150 mark, > for > a CPU, motherboard, 2GB memory and dirt cheap PCI Express video card. > > Now the problem is, I'm not sure what is considered a good mid range > board these days. I presume for about £150 I'm only going to be > able to > get something like the Pentium Duo (or a very low spec Core2Duo), I just > wondered what would be considered a good board to match with such a > processor? > > Could anyone recommend a decent board for about the £50 mark? > > Ta, > > Rob >
Hi Kris, > Hi rob, for around that price you will probably do better with an > Athlon, good motherboard, 128-256 nvidia gfx card and 2gb ram... > I was interested in the Athlon X2 BE-2350 although it seems that the Pentium chip overclocks better according to some of the sites I've read. I'm open to suggestions though. Am I right in thinking that with the newer AM2 (AM2+?) motherboards that a Phenom chip can be dropped straight in? > have a look on aria.co.uk <http://aria.co.uk> I find they have some good > deals, and there is Overclockers.co.uk <http://Overclockers.co.uk> who > are also ok. > I bought my old Athlon 1GHz from Overclockers.co.uk. The chip died a couple of years back but the board is still going strong. I didn't realise that Overclockers.co.uk was still going. > If you would like me to list some of the components I use in the servers > i make, which are pretty cheap, just ask :) > Yeah that would be great thanks Kris. I've been trying to keep up with the hardware but it seems to change on a weekly basis! Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
