Id go with an Athlon, and get a board with built in geforce 6100 - I love them!! You'll save Loads!
try aria.co.uk as kris says. On Nov 19, 2007 9:36 PM, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 19/11/2007, Rob Beard <[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 > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > Hi rob, for around that price you will probably do better with an Athlon, > good motherboard, 128-256 nvidia gfx card and 2gb ram... > > have a look on aria.co.uk I find they have some good deals, and there is > Overclockers.co.uk who are also ok. > > If you would like me to list some of the components I use in the servers i > make, which are pretty cheap, just ask :) > > -- > Kris Douglas > Softdel Limited Hosting Services > > Web: www.softdel.net > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/