£200 for CPU Motherboard and Ram HELP!

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Thats right Guys I got £200 (maybe an extra tenner if needed) to buy myself a new CPU Motherboard and Ram Combo!

Already have Hard drives (2x 640Gb WD) GFX (XFX5770 XXX edition) and PSU (OCZ Stealth 500w).

Only just Bought the 5770 and my system will not post with it installed then realised the motherboard (Sapphire 3200Adv) is so old it probably does not support PCIe2.0 :( I Have always gone with AMD kit as 99% of what I do is games but If you can give me an i5 for under £200 then I would probably go with that :D.

I have found this

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 640 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 640 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £76.36
(£64.99) £76.36
(£64.99)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £58.24
(£49.57) £58.24
(£49.57)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £56.39
(£47.99) £56.39
(£47.99)
Sub Total : £162.55 ex vat

and was wondering if you guys could come up with a better solution?
 
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@RJC Board wont post unless I Fully reset the BIOS every time I want to boot the system and even then its not fully stable! Managed to play Force Unleashed 2 for an hour on High Settings with no problem, tried BC2 and it crashed, rebooted (with full Cmos reset) and left on for 5 mins to go get a cup of tea and it had crashed by the time i got back.

So not really sure what's up with it.

@Cookeh I was joking :D
 
Liampope said:
That's a single 4GB stick. Get this...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-041-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
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Is it?
Crikey, go for RJC's spec then.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Better renowned than the Patriot stuff and a tried and tested set of RAM.
Proven to overclock very well, low heat sink so will fit under the vast majority coolers easily, oh and its got lifetime warranty!
 
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Order Placed

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 640 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £64.99 1 £64.99
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £51.99 1 £51.99
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £49.57 1 £49.57
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day): £0.00
VAT: £29.15
Order Total: £195.70

Cheers guys :)
 
Nice, very decent price for what will be a solid performer!

Assuming that due to lack of cooler you aren't going to be overclocking? :(
X4's get to 3.7 or 3.8 GHz pretty easy.
 
I got a Freezer 7 pro v2 on my X2 at the moment so will use that I think. Should produce better results than the stock cooler.
 
Anyone have a clue why OCUK might prefer to sell the GA-880GM-UD2H rather than the better spec'd GA-880GMA-UD2H with SB850 rather than SB710?

Havent seen any evidence to indicate the older board is better than the newer with newer Southbridge?
 
What's up with everybody recommending the 'avarage performing and overpriced' corsair memory when the patriot OCs better, has tighter timings AND IS CHEAPER?
 
The XMS3 was cheaper at the time as it was no this week only!

Think there has been availability problems with the GMA board.
 
PhoenixUK said:
What's up with everybody recommending the 'avarage performing and overpriced' corsair memory when the patriot OCs better, has tighter timings AND IS CHEAPER?
Click to expand...

The patriot needs 1.7 - 1.9V, so chances of actually getting that speed and those timings stable without going way over Intel absolute max RAM voltage and frying your i5/i7 IMC might not be good.
 
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