Asus A8N SLI Deluxe

cHk4 · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:05

Ok several years ago I built my brother a new PC, this has been stripped for parts and sold on. He no longer has a PC and I'm looking at possibly building him something on the cheap as he is using my old laptop which is rubbish.

I have a few questions
What is the best processor I could put on this board and along with that what would be a decent air cooler?
What would be a decent graphics card to put in this? Currently he has a 550W PSU I believe it is but happy to get another one if cheap
What about ram, I'd like to have 4GB in it as I want to run Windows 7 64.

Everything else he has, albeit old and just want to get him up and running on something cheap ideally

Will be used for games and ideally don't want to spend more than £200

Thanks

mp260767 · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:15

what make is the psu ?

have a look at the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro cooler, gfx card wise have a look at a nvidia 460gtx or ati 6850, will need to check if you psu has the right power connections for them.

check the members market for the memory as i would imagine ddr memory is silly money.

processor wise the Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4800+rev.E6 looks about the best bet.

edit.

if possible i'd save some extra and go for new hardware, could get a amd phenom quad core, 4gb of ddr3 memory, mobo + 460 gtx for £300

cHk4 · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:21

Thanks a lot mate,

The PSU is a turbo cool one I'm sure he imported it from America when he originally built it so many I need a new one of those too

So in regards to the pro - something like http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-281-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=803

mp260767 · 1 Sep 2011 at 17:25

that links to a processor when i clicked on it.

pro cooler is this one :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

if you were talking about a processor thats not the one cos its am3, looking on the asus website the mobo lists as a socket 939, which is why i said about going all new hardware.

cHk4 · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:05

mp260767 said:
that links to a processor when i clicked on it.

pro cooler is this one :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

if you were talking about a processor thats not the one cos its am3, looking on the asus website the mobo lists as a socket 939, which is why i said about going all new hardware.

Just saw what you said about new hardware - think it might be a good idea

Thanks