Msi PM8M2-V help needed
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http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=656
For future reference - Open google, type "MSI PM8M2-V" and it's the first link, would you believe? Top of the page. Too easy to be asking on here really.
You don't say what you have now, but unless it's a Celeron, you won't see any appreciable improvement in performance by upgrading to a better Pentium on that motherboard and a decent Pentium D is almost as expensive an E4300.
Save a bit harder. Track down a motherboard called an ASRock 775i65 and put an E4300 in it. You should be able to find those for about £125-£135 delivered as a package and you can use your existing RAM and graphics. The difference will be truly staggering.
Or - junk that board and CPU and go AMD.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-131-AM&groupid=595&catid=597&subcat=640
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-020-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=811
The graphics on this board are excellent - it'll play most games at low settings or sell your existing kit and get yourself a decent PCIe graphics card.
Sorry if I come over all negative early-on in this post, but why should I do easy research that you could easily do yourself?
For future reference - Open google, type "MSI PM8M2-V" and it's the first link, would you believe? Top of the page. Too easy to be asking on here really.
You don't say what you have now, but unless it's a Celeron, you won't see any appreciable improvement in performance by upgrading to a better Pentium on that motherboard and a decent Pentium D is almost as expensive an E4300.
Save a bit harder. Track down a motherboard called an ASRock 775i65 and put an E4300 in it. You should be able to find those for about £125-£135 delivered as a package and you can use your existing RAM and graphics. The difference will be truly staggering.
Or - junk that board and CPU and go AMD.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-131-AM&groupid=595&catid=597&subcat=640
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-020-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=811
The graphics on this board are excellent - it'll play most games at low settings or sell your existing kit and get yourself a decent PCIe graphics card.
Sorry if I come over all negative early-on in this post, but why should I do easy research that you could easily do yourself?