Motherboard + CPU for £100

arigold · 28 Oct 2009 at 09:59

I need to build PC for brother, its for streaming 12+ security cameras (+ over the internet)

I have looked at:

Intel 775 E5300
Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

Regards,

95thrifles · 28 Oct 2009 at 10:22

looks good ari, but seriously, lay off lloyd

JonJ678 · 28 Oct 2009 at 10:37

I'm unsure about this. Trying to get two cameras running though a 'server' at work, which is a 2.5ghz ish dual core. Playback is horrific. My current guess is that the graphics card (matrox something or other) installed isn't capable of helping out at all, throwing all the load on the processor which sits at exactly 50% stuttering away.

wonderlust · 28 Oct 2009 at 10:50

What about an AMD Athlon 2 x2 240 and an Asus M3N78-EM?

The 8300 is a better chipset of video decoding than the G31's

95thrifles · 28 Oct 2009 at 11:04

If you can go up to £140 you can get this, better gfx and quad core cpu

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 620 2.60GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99 (£69.56)
Asus M4A785D-M Pro AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £57.99 (£50.43)
Total : £137.99

Otherwise youd be hard pushed to do much better for an even ton

arigold · 28 Oct 2009 at 11:57

Currently camera machine has

2.4ghz celeron
256 RAM
Some old graphics card

It runs fine but struggling... I was thinking of adding

Dual Core 2 to 2.8ghz
2GB 6400
250GB SATA
x600 256MB

EDIT: How many megabytes is the 8800 on the Asus M3N78-EM?

arigold · 28 Oct 2009 at 12:59

teddy4 said:
What about an AMD Athlon 2 x2 240 and an Asus M3N78-EM?

The 8300 is a better chipset of video decoding than the G31's

How is it for noise? looking to use default heatsink and fan

arigold · 28 Oct 2009 at 17:51

bump!

Is AMD x2 and Asus mobo quite? really need someone to say:

"Yes Ari, AMD athlon X2 and ASUS M3N78-EM GeForce 8300 Socket AM2 are really really quite"

These are going to be sitting in the same room where the bedroom is.

JonJ678 · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:04

arigold said:
How is it for noise? looking to use default heatsink and fan

Motherboards don't tend to make noise, since few have fans. If you want it to be quiet, you don't get to use the stock heatsink.

craptakular · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:26

I have a motherboard from that same asus line, it just has a 8200 for my HTPC. Its dead quite! I have never used the AMD standard heatsink though, I blow £30 on a zalman one back in the day.

Intel and AMD stock coolers are not quite.