£200 upgrade spec please?

Jamous · 11 Jan 2008 at 19:14

Thanks to all who post in these "spec" threads!!

I'm upgrading an Athlon XP3000 set-up.
I've got a £200 budget for:
Power supply
Motherboard
RAM
CPU
Card Reader (not desperately important)

I can use the old AGP FX5200 graphics card or on-board? It is only really a net-surfing machine, no gaming or encoding stuff.

Is there any point in going for E4500 above E2180 for this type of system? It won't be overclocked as the owner knows nothing about that, so must be stable and reliable.

Thanks!!

Jamous · 11 Jan 2008 at 19:16

Forgot to say it currently has 1 DVD drive (IDE) and 1 120gb Hard Drive (IDE)

Jamous · 11 Jan 2008 at 23:26

The motherboard has died, so advised the owner to upgrade instead of trying to get a new board for socket A technology.
Thanks a lot for the above spec lists, are any of the 4*00 cpu's worth going for?

Jamous · 12 Jan 2008 at 17:57

Jonny- I like that spec, thanks!!