Non C2D budget system

sprognak · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:42

Looking at a "cheap as chips" basic system to replace a blown up socket 478 for the kids PC.

Am I right in thinking the Athlon 64's are the current best bang for buck when paying sub £70 for a CPU? Or should I be looking at 775 P4-D's?

Tute · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:54

Yeah, it's the Athlon 64 chips if you can't stretch to an E6300.

[Edit] I was going to suggest an E4300, however it's more expensive than the E6300? :confused:

semi-pro waster · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:05

Are you going to re-use the old Ram etc? If so then you are probably pretty limited in your choice of motherboards also so a socket 939 A64 will give you the most options I think.

tastyweat · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:17

sprognak said:
Looking at a "cheap as chips" basic system to replace a blown up socket 478 for the kids PC.

Am I right in thinking the Athlon 64's are the current best bang for buck when paying sub £70 for a CPU? Or should I be looking at 775 P4-D's?

Choice between A64 and P4D, defeinitely A64.

sprognak · 13 Jan 2007 at 15:18

That's pretty much what I thought. Nah, this is an old 478 jobby with SDRAM!!!

Will be new Board, CPU, RAM and possibley Video card. Want to do the whole lot for sub £200 - max £250 ideally with 1Gb RAM.

sprognak · 13 Jan 2007 at 15:22

How's this look?

OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1300 Hyper Memory 512MB DDR2 AVIVO TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (Socket 939) - OEM £61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
DFI LanParty UT RDX200CF-DR Crossfire (Socket 939) Motherboard £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)

£196.96
£231.43 inc VAT

btw, it's upgrading a P4D (unsure speed, cba to look), 100MHz 768Mb RAM, GeForce 5700 256Mb

syke · 13 Jan 2007 at 15:27

You could fit in an AM2 System for that price.

And its upgradeable.

For example:

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1300 Hyper Memory 512MB DDR2 AVIVO TV-Out/DVI
Asus M2V (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OcUK 1GB (2x512MB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail

£230.25 inc VAT

tastyweat · 13 Jan 2007 at 16:05

I'd take the 4000 939 system over the 3500 AM2 system.... 400Mhz in it for the same price

syke · 13 Jan 2007 at 16:06

tastyweat said:
I'd take the 4000 939 system over the 3500 AM2 system.... 400Mhz in it for the same price

Yes but can be upgraded cheaply.

And is more future proof.

allllec · 13 Jan 2007 at 16:32

Even cheaper..

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
Asus M2V-TVM VIA K8M890 Micro ATX (Socket AM2)
OcUK 1GB (2x512MB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit

£188.26 inc delivery.. using motherboard onboard gfx.. this is assuming your kids need now graphics power at all anyway?