Mobo, CPU, RAM and GPU for approx £300

Breeny · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:57

Tight budget I know, any comments?

Will I notice much difference between 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s (This mobo uses 3Gb/s)

I could save even more money by going Athlon II quad core, again would I notice much difference?

The PC's main use is internet browsing, working with MS Office, watching HD content and occasional gaming, although I may also like to get involved with image manipulation at some point in the future.

I don't mind OC a little to get the most out of it.

stulid · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:00

If you went with a Athlon 640 quad core, you lose this much speed - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=88

an extra £4 gets a 5830 card with free game - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-168-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1711 which is this much faster - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/172?vs=171

Breeny · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:15

Thanks for that Stulid!

AnandTech Bench looks very useful. Although it's tempting me to go another £20 higher for a GTX 460, argh!

stulid · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:17

Sell the game voucher £££ profit.

danewesley · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:19

640 quad

4gb xms3

Gigabyte ga-880gm

Msi 5850 twin forza

Comes to just over 320, you could get a 7 series kobo and bring it to 300 easily.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:21

I assume the OP has a decent PSU to power the whole shebang with?

Breeny · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:38

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I assume the OP has a decent PSU to power the whole shebang with?

Indeed. I'm planning on buying an Antec Truepower 650W at the same time (plus a few other bits)

Breeny · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:42

danewesley said:
640 quad

4gb xms3

Gigabyte ga-880gm

Msi 5850 twin forza

Comes to just over 320, you could get a 7 series kobo and bring it to 300 easily.

That mobo still doesn't have 6Gb/s SATA connections, is that something I should be worried about? The GA-880GMA does though, so that's worth considering if it comes back into stock.

stulid · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:55

you only need SATA 6GB/s for SSD's

Marine-RX179 · 19 Jan 2011 at 06:29

stulid said:
you only need SATA 6GB/s for SSD's

Yea...and if he does need SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 in the future, he could always get something like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-000-AS