OcUK bundle - yay or nay?

MrSix

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Hi guys,

Fried my mobo today, so decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my setup.
My current set-up is an Athlon XP 2500+, 512mb DDR and some gigabyte mobo.

Anyway, i'm not looking to spend too much (read under £400), so I took a look through the OcUK bundles and spotted this one:

AMD Athlon 64 3700 Retail / Asus A8N-SLi Premium / 1GB GeIL CAS 2.5 PC3200 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle (BU-029-OK)

All for £320.60.

What do you guys think, worth the buy?
 
Others Im sure will have a more experianced opinion but.. I have this mobo with a AMD 4000. When I was upgrading RAM that is the RAM peeps on here advised me to get :) So I like the mobo, RAM is what I was advised and the CPU fine. Enjoy.
 
Jokester said:
You'll need a PCI-E graphics card as well. But other than that, looks good.

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Oooh...really?

I've got an AGP one atm, I presume no AGP cards work the PCI-E mobos then?

Back to the drawing board....
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) **this week only**
£191.47
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
£93.94
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) **this week only**
£105.69
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) £15.22

Total inv VAT: £406.32

£6 over budget, but that would be £406 very well spent in my opinion.

Edit: hmmm, looks like you need a graphics card too
 
You could get a Asrock 939 dual sata2 motherboard, this has both AGP and PCI-E slots so you could keep your card and upgrade in the future. This is also about £70 cheaper than a Asus A8N SLI premium so you could spend more on the cpu and go dual core.
 
That does sound nice, and obviously with that setup I could run my current GFX card? Then when I wanted to upgrade to a PCI-E gfx card I could...right?
 
Yes, you could also get 2GB ram as well. Unfortunatly ocuk don't stock the asrock board so you would have to look else where for that. It's about £45.
It works fine with dual core, i'm currently using a X2 3800 in mine.

CP-152-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) 1
£162.95 £162.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) 1
£12.95 £12.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) 1
£89.95 £89.95
Subtotal £265.85
VAT £46.53
Total £312.38
 
That deal seems even more enticing...

I also run IDE HDD's, not SATA - that board would be compatible then?

Just to clarify, the component which I currently have are:

2x IDE HDD's
1x AGP GFX card
3x PCI cards

I'm clued up with computers, but i've just fallen behind the times with the whole PCI-E and dual core mobos, hence why i'm covering all angles.

Thanks for this help too guys, really appreciate it.
 
no, the gfx card doesnt have a big cooler so that's fine.

My email is in my sig, if you'd care to give me more info on that deal lee.

*edit*

Oops, just re-read your post...it's only the mobo i'd have to get from elsewhere.
Nevermind :)
 
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Jokester said:
I'm just looking at the picture of the board. Does this board have a CPU expansion slot?

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It has a Future CPU port, this will let you plug a expansion card in so you can use DDR2 ram and AM2 cpu's in the board.
 
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