small upgrade for sons pc

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sons pc is due an upgrade for Santa
I5 is too expensive so I was thinking of putting this in his case with his ATI 3870

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz (Socket AM3)

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H AMD 880G

this nets out at about £215

anything I am missing ,anything better for the money

Thanks

Dave
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well havent really got a budget but when pricing up I5 is too expensive and I3 is only dual core and this AMD chip seems to be a good little buy ,I am not too bothered about the mobo but my last 4 builds have been Gigabyte boards and had no bother

Hes currently running a Opteron 165 (runs as a 4800) which is going into his brothers PC

I am very open to best bang for bucks options though

cheers
Dave
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If you can stretch to it upgrade his gfx card aswell? Or maybe just ideas for his next birthday for now...?

An nvidia 460 or an ATI6850 at roughyl £130 are good ideas and it'll boost his gaming no end over his existing card!

Something like this :
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-238-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1830

Or if an ATi fanboi like me maybe this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-187-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866


For £265 you could have something like this:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail - £135
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) - £59
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard - £60

Total including delivery £264.41

So for the sake of a small £45 premium over the parts you have chosen you can get a much faster, nicely overclockable processor. Though you could get a cheaper mobo as the onboard gfx is unnecessary in this instance. You could get a board for under £50 then and drop the premium paid to £35. Bargain.
 
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his cards adequate for the gaming he does and Santa aint got that much extra LOL
Everything else look good ??
Dave
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Fair enough on the gfx front. STill think the small prmeium now is worth it for a processor that is much faster, overclocks well and as such hopefully last him longer. But then if all he plays is the sims the first one is good.
 
cheers I might have a look at that but chip and ram are just about settled now
unless anyone knows better ?
thanks
Dave
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ordered with the Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G
looks like biuld time again

thanks
Dave
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