£350 spec

[Reed]

Hey guys been thinking about an upgrade (well pretty much a new computer now ) for the last couple of months and figured I'd seek your advice. I have monitor, keyboard, mouse etc already so no need to worry about that. The £350 is just for the mobo, memory and CPU as I'll be purchasing one of the new nvidia or ATI GPU's when they're released to replace my aging 8800 GTS 640mb.

The machine is used primarily for gaming on a dell 2407. I was thinking of grabbing vista 64bit and then going with 4GB of memory but im not sure what specific memory is best. The old duel vs quad has also been on my mind and tbh from a gaming perspective it does look like something like a 8400 would be best. Motherboard I have absolutely no idea about so im trusting you guys whole heatedly with that

 

[Ben M]

Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £99 inc VAT
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail - £132.76 inc VAT
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) - £70.49 inc VAT
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler - £32.89 inc VAT

although tbh I'd wait until mid next month when the p45 chipset is released.

 

[neoboy]

Abit IP35, 4GB OCZ RAM, E8400, spend the rest on ice cream.

 

[Reed]

although tbh I'd wait until mid next month when the p45 chipset is released.

I'll be waiting till then to get my new gfx card anyway so thats not a problem. The P45 will fit within my price range as well ?

edit: just checked prices on ocuk (didn't realise they were listed )

 

[Ben M]

I'll be waiting till then to get my new gfx card anyway so thats not a problem. The P45 will fit within my price range as well ?

They're meant to be a direct replacement for the p35, so should be the same price.

 

[neoboy]

Pre-order prices for Asus boards are reasonable.

 

[Reed]

Am i right in saying that the difference between the P5Q Pro and the P5Q-E is the extra PCI-E slots or am i missing something else.