looking for advice on mother board+CPU

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 391

looking to upgrade my mother board and cpu any recommendations for something at a reasonable cost

Cheeers Dave

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:00 am

Hiya m8. What have you currently got and how much, roughly, is your budget?

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 391

The mother I havent a clue buts its fairly cheap one that came with the computer and the CPU is a dual core 6300 @1.86Ghz 1.87Ghz as for budget some where around £200 hopefully cheaper or would it just be easeir to upgrade the CPU and better Ram I have to 2GB but its only 633

Chears Dave

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:41 am

Well usually, the cheaper opition is an AMD CPU.

Well £100 will buy you the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ which is a 3 GHz dual core CPU.
£65 will buy you the 5000+ version of the above and that runs at 2.6 GHz.

A single PCI Express AMD AM2 mobo can cost from anything from £40 to £80. i.e. the AMD 690 mobo's are a great AM2 board, here's a link to a bunch of them, for a good price mind Wink

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.ASP?CatID=28&FilterCategories=501&Thumbnails=yes

Going down the Intel CPU route is a bit more expensive, but worth the dosh.
The best you'd get at around £100 mark is a Core 2 Duo (65nm) that runs at 2.4GHz.
Stretch that £100 mark a little further and you could a Core 2 Duo (45nm) E6550 CPU that runs at 2.66 GHz. though it may have a slower speed than the fastest AMD, the Intel's cache size is bigger.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?&groupid=701&catid=6&subid=793&sortby=priceAsc

As regards motherboards for these Intel CPU's, again a single slot PCI Express board is easy to come by- i recommend a single PCI Express P35 mobo chipset.

Hope that helps Wink

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Best value intel mobos are Foxconn at the mo - pair that with a Q6600 (economy version oc's to 3.2ghz on air alone) need to know yer budget really

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:16 pm

Read the post starsk you lazy git, up to £200 Razz

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 391

This is what I have

mother board
PCI, AGP, PCI Express
Manufacturer ELITEGROUP COMPUTER SYSTEM CO.,LTD.
Model 945P-M3
Version 3.0
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00 PG
BIOS Release Date 02/02/2007
BIOS Properties Plug and Play, Flash

cpu

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
Manufacturer Intel
Family Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
Architecture 64-bit
Internal Clock 1.9 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 1.9 GHz
External Clock 266.0 MHz
Socket Designation Socket 775
Upgrade ZIF Socket
MultiCore 2 Processor Cores
HyperThreadingTechnology N/A
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, PAE, NX
Version Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
Caches
Level 1 32 KB
Level 2 0 B

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-157-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-010-FC&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

I would go for these with that budget tbh - although waiting a bit you could get an X38 mobo.

That CPU will oc to 3.ghz on air with no problem - unfortunately all the mobos under 100 are not PCI-e 2.0 which is the new standard for graphics cards - like i said m8 better off waiting or putting extra bit into budget - no matter what tho this entry level CPU is a little monster and you cant go wrong - but you really need to invest in a strong mobo

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 391

so mother board wise if i put a bit to it say upto £150/£175 what then would be my choices
or what about this bundle
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-101-OK

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:41 pm

that's the bundle am lookin to get in a couple of monthes

but the problem for me is the cooler it;s alittle to tall for my case as i have 2 fans on the side of my tower

just check your width first before you buy

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-003-OK&groupid=701&catid=339&subcat=791

i been readin this is probley slightly better ramm and cooler and alitlle cheaper

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Dont buy a kit like that

Do you really need to change right now cos in a few weeks prices will go down!

Best cooler on the market is the coolermaster hyperx cheap as chips and quiet

You might as well go PCI2.0 end of this month the Nvidia 98oo comes out go figure the mobo range comin out and price cuts in different ones! If yer happy to waita few weeks whether you go for PCI2.0 or not prices will be lower and more choice!

I too am upgrading at the mo and dont really know what to do!!