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Hi guys,

Looking to get new parts for my dads PC, but OC's bundles are like, perma-sold out, so I'll have to buy the parts seperately.

Using a roughly £225-250 budget, I need a CPU, a Mobo and some RAM only

He mainly uses it for encoding dvd's, and gaming, therefore can anyone recommend a good, reliable, compatible and bang for buck setup for that budget please? :) Good performance in games would be great (I'll buy gfx card seperately)

Overclocking is an option, but a small one.
 
Well I dunno, I could always kill two birds with one stone and get a Q9xxx and then give my old man my Q6600. I get something new to play with and so does he :)

I may stretch to £300 if that opens many more options
 
I've always read on here the Q9xxx are better for encoding, and better for gaming because of their huge 12mb l2 cache.

But as above, would be great is someone could clear this up! :)
 
Thats what I was referring to :p

Are they much better than the Q6600? For gaming anyway, I don't do any encoding myself. I've heard they're a lot faster, and use a lot less power clock for clock too

Basically I have the money for £400 probably, just dont want to spend that much if it wont give any return ;)
 
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