<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 19/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Beard</b> <<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi folks,<br><br>I think after my PC died last week it's about time for an upgrade<br>(especially since my other half's Celeron I'm using is painfully slow!).<br><br>Now I'm looking to upgrade to a dual core machine. As my old PC was a
<br>Socket 754 Athlon 64 with DDR memory I'm going to have to replace my<br>board, CPU, memory and video card.<br><br>Traditionally I've been a fan of AMD. I found their CPU's<br>price/performance ratio was top notch, although I can't help but notice
<br>that AMD is getting trampled on a bit by Intel with the Core2 processors<br>and I really don't want to have to wait until the AMD Phenom is released<br>and prices have come down to a more reasonable level.<br><br>
I don't play games on my machine so I don't need anything fancy like<br>multiple video cards. I do play videos, music, browse the net and all<br>things like that. I'm trying to set my budget around the £150 mark, for
<br>a CPU, motherboard, 2GB memory and dirt cheap PCI Express video card.<br><br>Now the problem is, I'm not sure what is considered a good mid range<br>board these days. I presume for about £150 I'm only going to be able to
<br>get something like the Pentium Duo (or a very low spec Core2Duo), I just<br>wondered what would be considered a good board to match with such a<br>processor?<br><br>Could anyone recommend a decent board for about the £50 mark?
<br><br>Ta,<br><br>Rob<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
</a><br><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Hi rob, for around that price you will probably do better with an Athlon, good motherboard, 128-256 nvidia gfx card and 2gb ram...
<br><br>have a look on <a href="http://aria.co.uk">aria.co.uk</a> I find they have some good deals, and there is <a href="http://Overclockers.co.uk">Overclockers.co.uk</a> who are also ok.<br><br>If you would like me to list some of the components I use in the servers i make, which are pretty cheap, just ask :)
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kris Douglas<br> Softdel Limited Hosting Services<br><br> Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a><br> Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">kris@softdel.net</a>