Best Budget Mobo
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Anything from this page is as good as you will get for budget LGA775 . . .
Best bet would be to sell the LGA775 chip and buy an AMD Athlon II/785G combo, you get so much more tech for your money!
Best bet would be to sell the LGA775 chip and buy an AMD Athlon II/785G combo, you get so much more tech for your money!
Big.Wayne = AMD's Pimp!!!
Maybe so, but he's right. At that end of the price scale, you get a lot of bang for your buck with AMD.
Lol sorry if I am pimping too much but I'm convinced the Athlon II's are good news, in a similar way to how the launch of the Radeon HD4850 and HD4870 was good news for gamers on a budget, at that point nVidia were resting on their laurels and charging big money still for old tech! . . . look what happened . . .nVidia had to start slashing the prices of their goods as everyone jumped aboard the AMD wagon!
The Athlon II is to processors what HD48xx series was to GPU's, I would hope to see a lot more forum users building one of these systems soon and I would also hope to see Intel respond as nVidia did, with a price slash on their old hardware because at the moment it is very overpriced compared to AMD!
The Athlon II is to processors what HD48xx series was to GPU's, I would hope to see a lot more forum users building one of these systems soon and I would also hope to see Intel respond as nVidia did, with a price slash on their old hardware because at the moment it is very overpriced compared to AMD!
You are right Wayne, I was just fooling about.. thought you guys had a sense of humour but obviously I was wrong! 
Like I said, before this rig, the only chips I used in builds were Athlons, they have always been excellent bang for your buck, I was with them from Socket A right up to my AM2 6000+ X2..
Like I said, before this rig, the only chips I used in builds were Athlons, they have always been excellent bang for your buck, I was with them from Socket A right up to my AM2 6000+ X2..
I don't follow? . . . I took no offence from you calling me a pimp?thought you guys had a sense of humour but obviously I was wrong!
You are right Wayne, I was just fooling about.. thought you guys had a sense of humour but obviously I was wrong!
It's late - if I've not tickled your funny-bone in my responses or seemed to be suitably amused by your good self, put it down to tiredness please.
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looks like a regular plural to me . . .have to watch words on the web as they are literally taken at face value!thought you guys had a sense of humour but obviously I was wrong!
I've got that exact combo!
The reason I moved over to AMD is for under £100 I was able to purchase a triple core Athlon II 425 (which seems to be a more capable processor) *and* a AMD® 785G chipset . . . . . the main advantage to this combo (dual vs tri CPU debate aside) is the AMD® 785G chipset, it totally makes a mockery of Intel® G31/G41 Express Chipset! . . . The 785G has a superior feature set in every single way, PCI-E 2.0 slot, SATA Raid options, eSata, very tweaker/overclocker friendly BIOS, (overclockable) Radeon HD4200 IGP, 8-CH High Definition Audio, DDR2-1200 support etc
The only disadvantage is the added premium but the asking price from AMD for the 785G makes it a complete no-brainer, steal, bargain of the decade etc
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