£300 or £400 to spend on a few bits

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basically my friend is looking to upgrade his computer a bit, looking for a new CPU, Mobo (atx) and Gfx Card (maybe new memory, ddr2 atm)

he has £300-£400 to spare

what's the best upgrade for that money


EDIT: it will be used for stuff like photoshop and for some gaming
 
can you squeeze £50 more?

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £147.99
(£125.95) £147.99
(£125.95)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £123.36
(£104.99) £123.36
(£104.99)
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
Sub Total : £374.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £67.28
Total : £451.74

or bang on budget.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5830 PCS+ 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £140.99
(£119.99) £140.99
(£119.99)
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 635 2.90GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £76.36
(£64.99) £76.36
(£64.99)
Sub Total : £329.00
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £59.24
Total : £397.74
 
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If he wants an Intel option and doesn't care that socket 1156 will be 'dead' soon:

Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £154.99
(£131.91) £154.99
(£131.91)
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £147.99
(£125.95) £147.99
(£125.95)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
Asus P7H55-M Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Sub Total : £384.01
Shipping cost based on delivery to Credit/debit card billing address, with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £67.20
Total : £451.21
 
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"socket 1156 will be 'dead' soon". Will it? They only introduced it last year. Not saying you're wrong, just asking for more info.

What will replace it? Will future Intel processors all move to LGA1366 or is something new coming in?
 
bit depressing isn't it? useless ****ing Intel, at least AMD make them backwards compatible (to a degree)
 
Thanks. Now I know what to Google for ...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge_(microarchitecture) "Overclocking is limited to only 2-3% over the factory clock speed due to Intel locking the speed of every bus to the base clock.", so I'm not sure it will be worth waiting for anyway! Perhaps there will be i7 equivalent versions later without this restriction. But if so, no doubt they'll be expensive.
 
dww said:
Thanks. Now I know what to Google for ...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge_(microarchitecture) "Overclocking is limited to only 2-3% over the factory clock speed due to Intel locking the speed of every bus to the base clock.", so I'm not sure it will be worth waiting for anyway! Perhaps there will be i7 equivalent versions later without this restriction. But if so, no doubt they'll be expensive.
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Of course Int*l can charge what ever they want with no competition and you will have to pay it if you want it :(

The only way will be if they release 'K' versions of the chip with unlocked multipliers.
 
How much existing DDR2 mem has he got, if he has enough you could use a AM2+ board with the existing DDR2 mem and then stulid's 1st suggestion would be on budget
 
stulid said:
1156 is being dumped for 1155, thats right! 1pin less!!!
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Not fair really is it :(

Regardless if it forward or backwards compatible, for £300 you can buy a system that will perform and last for a few years yet and by that time they'll be something else anyway but darn you Intel!
 
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