£400 budget

[MrZippo]

Hi there
I am looking for a MOBO, CPU and Ram to build for £400-430ish
I will be using my existing PSU, Sata drives, dvd drives and case.

What can you recommend?

 

[p4radox]

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £101.99
(£119.84) £101.99
(£119.84)
Thermalright Ultra-120 (Socket 754/939/940/LGA775) Heatsink £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Scythe S-FLEX 800RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3/4 pin £10.95
(£12.87) £10.95
(£12.87)
Sub Total : £322.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
Vat : £57.95
Total : £389.11

There you go.

If you want to max out your budget, go for a 6400 chip instead.

That setup should clock to over 3GHz pretty easily.

 

[MrZippo]

Interesting.....
Any other suggestions??

I was looking at

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £101.99
(£119.84) £101.99
(£119.84)

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA804) £139.99
(£164.49) £139.99
(£164.49)

Abit AW9D Intel 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £91.99
(£108.09) £91.99
(£108.09)

Sub Total : £333.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
Vat : £59.89
Total : £402.11

 

[semi-pro waster]

I wouldn't go for a 975X chipset based motherboard if overclocking is an aim as they normally have problems reaching the high FSB speeds needed by the 6300 and 6400 chips for good overclocks. I'd go with the Asus suggested by p4radox which can be unlinked from the Ram or a 965P based motherboard such as the Gigabyte DS3/DS4 and some cheap PC6400 Ram.