New upgrade (advice please!)

jonislost · 18 Oct 2007 at 12:53

Well I'm looking to build a complete new rig and due to monatary problems, i need to purchase a little bit each month. So this would be the first month, for this month i want to get CPU, Motherboard, Ram, and CPU cooler on a budget of Maximum £190-£200. Heres what I'm currently looking to buy:

I want to over clock the CPU hopefully to 3.2GHz or more if possible; would these components work well together to gain this kind of overclock? Also any suggestions to what i should change or does it look good?

TIA!

bandit · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:14

get the stuff that has less volatile prices.
i would suggest getting mboard and cooler, and leaving the chip and ram tilll later, as you may well find you can get something better.

jonislost · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:17

bandit said:
get the stuff that has less volatile prices.
i would suggest getting mboard and cooler, and leaving the chip and ram tilll later, as you may well find you can get something better.

Good idea, never really thought about that. Thanks

paradigm · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:19

Personally, I'd just take the money and put it to one side for a few months, then just buy all in one go. Nothing worse than having new hardware sat around you for months unable to use it.

bandit · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:21

paradigm said:
Personally, I'd just take the money and put it to one side for a few months, then just buy all in one go. Nothing worse than having new hardware sat around you for months unable to use it.

there is that

still if you are not able to leave the money lying around and feel it burning a hole, well get the spend out the way

if your going for a complete new rig, then think about the case, PSU and HDD, all of which are reasonably stable from the price perspecitve.

jonislost · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:22

paradigm said:
Personally, I'd just take the money and put it to one side for a few months, then just buy all in one go. Nothing worse than having new hardware sat around you for months unable to use it.

I would do that (like any sane person) but i'm soooo terrible with money.

jonislost · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:24

bandit said:
there is that

still if you are not able to leave the money lying around and feel it burning a hole, well get the spend out the way

if your going for a complete new rig, then think about the case, PSU and HDD, all of which are reasonably stable from the price perspecitve.

Yeah i think i will look at buying all of that first now. Thanks for the advice

bandit · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:43

np, let us know what you get