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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/Produc...82E16813128072
Proc - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115052
RAM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820141300

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 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/showpr...%20Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...)%20-%20Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...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...0000&InMerch=1
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx...0000&InMerch=1
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...150,4294959063

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.