Is this a good cheap spec??

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Parents computer seems to have given up. Only boots to the motherboard screen (Asus A7V333). It has an Athon XP1700 chip.
Rather than throw everything out just looking to replace the motherboard and the processor, guess this may also mean new memory.
Anyway this is what I am thinking of
Asus M4A78LT-M LE AMD 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £58
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) £84
Geil Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel £82

Looking to keep the cost under £250.
Are these spec reasonable, or could I do better?

Main use is emails, surfing the web and playing videos.

Any suggestion most welcome.
 
Its good, but you could still go cheaper if its just browsing and a few other simple tasks.

You could get away with just 2gb of ram, athlon X2 250 cpu.
 
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stulid said:
Its good, but you could still go cheaper if its just browsing and a few other simple tasks.

You could get away with just 2gb of ram, athlon X2 250 cpu.
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+1 you might aswell just do this, if gaming isnt involved then you might aswell get as cheap as possible.
 
I did a similar upgrade about 2 years ago and went from XP1900 to e2140 and i used a ASrock Dual VSTA this board has AGP and PCIE, DDR and DDR2 slots which cost me only £70 (30 for proc and 40 for board) Don't know if you can still get them now.
 
Thanks everyone for your replies.

Will be getting the 2Gb of memory, you are right 4Gb does seem like it is too much if it is doing nothing.
Also going to get the AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 240. Did wonder about the Sampon, could not believe how cheap it is. Also looked at the X3, think I would have got this if it was still doing any encoding, but my own machine takes care of this.

Could not find any of them dual boards. So it looks like a new graphics card is in order. As the monitor is old needs to be something with a VGA so looking to get Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4550 "Low Profile"

Cheers
 
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