How's this for a Budget Upgrade?

spib · 24 Sep 2007 at 20:37

I need to upgrade a mate's PC and he's only got £250 to spend on a new mobo, cpu, RAM and gfx.

How does this look?

233 · 24 Sep 2007 at 20:38

change to a 2160 and spend some more cash on a decent gfx card

spib · 24 Sep 2007 at 20:39

Why is the 2160 preferred? He won't be using it for games, only office stuff and windows media center

Teaf · 24 Sep 2007 at 20:44

I'd go for that. Took a hit on the CPU but not a massive one and the E4400 is a great CPU. The card was bumped up the 1GB model because it's only £3 more, so you may as well. Also bump the GeIL to the stuff on this week only, as it's only £2 more. The motherboard is a lot better and more futureproof as it holds DDR3 and DDR2, and also support for 1333FSB natively (ie. Penryn).

spib · 24 Sep 2007 at 20:57

Thanks for the feedback chaps. How about this (I added a new PSU also because he's had problems with stability on his current system) and still on the £250 budget

WarBird · 24 Sep 2007 at 20:58

yes def go for the ull geil ram saying it's only 2quid more this week....mad like

EDIT: that's a nice spec now spib

Teaf · 24 Sep 2007 at 21:00

Looks great spib!

spib · 24 Sep 2007 at 21:08

Thanks for the help guys.

One last question (I promise

) - would the E4400 be better than the 2160 or is it not really needed?

Tk7 · 24 Sep 2007 at 21:12

I'd stick with what you have listed, as it is on budget. The E4400 is obviously slightly faster, but I don't think it's enough of an upgrade to be worth going over-budget.

233 · 25 Sep 2007 at 14:14

2160 with a touch of overclock

Scougar · 25 Sep 2007 at 14:26

Change the gfx card 1bg video ram is not gonna be used really.

Matthew

Teaf · 25 Sep 2007 at 14:35

Scougar said:
Change the gfx card 1bg video ram is not gonna be used really.

Matthew

It's only £3 more than the 256MB version, would be mad not to pay £3 for quadruple the VRAM even if it doesn't get used.