Building new system

ben10scotland · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:06

I want to build an AMD system, £150 or less for Motherboard, Processor and RAM

Need to support DDR3 RAM
Multicore processor [AM3] including Phenom
Many USB and SATA
enough PCI,
PCI-express for graphics card
ATX sized motherboard

possibly one which allows unlocking of additional cores on processors
RAM, at least 2GB per module - twinned and DDR3 and to support 16GB of RAM on board or more

preferably without onboard graphics and networking if that reduces cost [as have cards already for these]

reliable motherboard manufacturer [just tried 2 ASRock Boards and both were faulty on arrival] was told ASUS and Gigabyte are the best so may try one of these.

USB 3 support would be great

I have a 450 Watt power supply [happy to upgrade]
Sapphire HD5450 1GB PCI graphics card
ATX case [Jeantech Unicorn]
hard drives [IDE x1] and SATA
DVD-RW drive [SATA]
19 inch TFT screen
Gigabyte networking card [TP link]
bought wireless card [PCI/PCI-E need to check]
components going to get rid of

AM2 socket Athlon 64 XII 4800+ Brisbane
2*1GB of DDR 2 kingston RAM

ben10scotland · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:07

Can spend more money for decent AMD system
will probably try upgrading PSU later on to save money at the moment

ben10scotland · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:38

Motherboard

Found
Asus AM3 M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 5200MT/S Motherboard £75 on Amazon

supports core unlocking so can buy processor and unlock additional cores to save money

ben10scotland · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:42

thought about this but its only uATX and doesnt support DDR3

http://www.cclonline.com/product-in...=956&manufacturer_id=0&tid=90-mibc91-g0ecy0gz

Asus M4N68T-M LE Socket AM3 Motherboard - OEM - 90-MIBC91-G0ECY0GZ £40

Jonnycarter · 20 Mar 2011 at 19:15

ok just a heads up dont link to compeptators or the mods will be on your back

as for what your looking for what will the machine be used for and do you only want a spec for mobo, ram, processor?
edit:
and i think this is in the wrong section mate should be in general hardwere ? i mite be wrong

ben10scotland · 5 Apr 2011 at 17:17

Thanks

it was in the right section, I was looking for a motherboard first of all - I spent a bit more than I wanted to and got a really nice ASUS board, supports 16GB DDR3 [got 8GB [2GB*4] of Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz for £60

the motherboard is the ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 - lots of features

for £66 from Crescent Electronics

Motherboard unlocks quadcore processors to hexcore so got an AM3 socket AMD Phenom X4 840

and bought a 66CFM 120mm case fan to keep it cool,