recommend pro & ram.

What is your budget here? And also why an SLi motherboard? But independent of the Ram issue the best value CPUs are probably the E2180 and the Q6600, rather different ends of the price scale but they do offer excellent value for money if you are willing to overclock.
 
marlos said:
My budget is £165:00 on all 3 items.
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:D Good luck with that then, I'm not sure how many places will sell you a CPU and Ram for £0.51 but I suppose if you don't ask then you don't get.

//edit and in that case I'd be looking at the E2180 and Geil PC6400 C4, about as cheap as you will get and very overclockable. :)
 
Ah, now I see, I'd now change my advice to go for the Q6600, buy a decent cooler such as the Noctua NH-U12F, Tuniq Tower or Thermalright U120 + fan and overclock.

Ram, well you could either spend most of your budget and get 2x2gb of PC6400 or what I'd probably do is buy two of the Geil PC6400 C4 at ~£35 for 2x1gb so you end up with 4x1gb and save about £70. :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
Ah, now I see, I'd now change my advice to go for the Q6600, buy a decent cooler such as the Noctua NH-U12F, Tuniq Tower or Thermalright U120 + fan and overclock.

Ram, well you could either spend most of your budget and get 2x2gb of PC6400 or what I'd probably do is buy two of the Geil PC6400 C4 at ~£35 for 2x1gb so you end up with 4x1gb and save about £70. :)
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and for a motherboard go for p35, i'd say you should go for the gigabyte ds3, or do you want sli?
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agreed would get a Q6600 G0 + Noctua NH-U12F/Tuniq Tower/Thermalright U120 + fan, 2x Geil 2gb ultra PC6400 stuff (don't need anything more than this really) & a decent X38 mobo or that EVGA if you want sli.
 
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Thanks people for your help, i dont think i'll go down the SLI road just yet if do i'll need big power unit.
 
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Hey marlos, if you are not going down the SLI route then you would be far better of to to buy either a P35 Chipset Based Motherboards or one of the X38 Chipset Based Motherboards. Now the X38 Chipset Based Motherboards feature the new PCI Express 2.0 lanes dedicated to graphics and both PCI-Express lanes run at the full bandwidth when running in a Crossfire mode. PCI Express 2.0 is backwards compatible with current PCI Express 1.1 / 1.0 graphics cards, but when the next-generation GPUs arrive that natively support PCI Express 2.0 arrive, PCI-Express 2.0 slots will offer twice the bandwidth of current solution. However, the PCI-Express 2.0 is still farily new and isn't really something worth worrying about at the moment. Their overclocking capability’s are very similar to that of the P35 Chipsets. In my opinion, if you are not looking at going Crossfire either, then a P35 Based Motherboard will be absoutly fine. They are well known for their overclocking potential, very reliable and they are very well priced too.

Just one thing that is worth taking into account is, you will need a 64-bit Operating System to be able to utilize the 4GB of memory that you will be buying. :)
 
Fire Wizard said:
Just one thing that is worth taking into account is, you will need a 64-bit Operating System to be able to utilize the 4GB of memory that you will be buying. :)
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I'm running 32-bit vista with 3 gigs @ the mo, 64-bit vista is gonna be £120:00 more.
 
Hey marlos, it’s around the £120 if you purchase the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, which in my opinion, is not worth the extra money over Windows Vista Home Premium which is around £50 cheaper. If you would like to see what kind of extra features you get with Windows Vista Ultimate compared to that of Home Premium, then here is a great graph that compares the two along with the Home Basic and Business Editions.

Now I have just done a specification for you, it’s on budget and includes everything you will need. Just to give you an example. :)

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