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[jbaldwinroberts]

Hey,

Im upgrading my PC and want to get a new motherboard, processor and ram. i have got £150 - £200 to spend. i would like to have 2gb of ram. i also need a processor cooler.

Does anyone have any ideas of which will components work well together within this budget.

Thanks

Joe

[SgtM]

£200 is about $400 US right? Check this out:

Mobo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128072
Proc - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115052
RAM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141300

Total if you get 4 gigs of RAM, $283.96 (US).

[jbaldwinroberts]

Thanks for that. i will have a look at that setup plus any others people can help with and what i think could be the best.

I would have 4gigs of ram if ubuntu can use it all but im not sure on this.

Yes £200 is roughly $400.

Unfortunately newegg dont deliver to the uk though so i cant get the components off them. i am going to mainly use Dabs.com (www.dabs.com) as they seem to be cheap on most things and have a good selection of stuff, but obviously if i can get better components off other UK websites then i will do.

thanks for your help and any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[Drum Thumper]

I think you'll be a-ok as long as you use a 64 bit build of Ubuntu. A 32 bit version won't recognize 4GBs, for the same reasons as a 32 bit version of Windows won't handle it.

[crenn]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-098-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=&name=Gigabyte%20GA-73PVM-S2H%20GeForce%207100%20Micro-ATX%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-219-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793&name=Intel%20Core%202%20Duo%20E7200%20LGA775%20%27 Wolfdale%27%20%202.53GHz%20(1066FSB)%20-%20Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-086-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813&name=OCZ%204GB%20(2x2GB)%20PC2-6400C5%20Dual%20Channel%20Vista%20Gold%20Series%20 DDR2%20(OCZ2G8004GK)

All up: £195.02

[Tavarin]

Do you specifically want an Intel based system or AMD?
You can probably get an AMD one for less:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4LYB&CategorySelectedId=11143&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11143,405090000&InMerch=1
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=541S&CategorySelectedId=11147&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11147,420620000&InMerch=1
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4QDZ&CategorySelectedId=11150&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11150,4294959063

Total: 141.49 Pounds

That's 2.6 GHz dual core with 2Gb of ram, which should be more than enough for a linux based system.

[jbaldwinroberts]

Thanks for those. I dont really mind whether i go for AMD or Intel. im leaning towards Intel just because that is what i have always used, but if people think AMD has a better performance to cost ratio then im all for it.

Eventually when i have enough money i want to get a decent graphics card, spending around £150, so i need the system to be compatible with this.

Thanks.

[Tavarin]

Pretty much any mobo and system will work with any video card provided their mobo has a PCI-E bus, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

[nevermind1534]

I like Intel's performance, but recently, for all of the budget PCs that I build, I have been using AMD.