spec me a upgrade

drunkenmonkey · 2 Jan 2008 at 22:52

im after upgrading my athlon 3800x2 to a q6600

ive got a monitor,case,psu and hard drives ect ect

so i just want a cpu (q6600)

a decent solid motherboard (might OC to about 3ghz but no more)

and some decent ram that goes well with the board

last thing i want is to order and then find the ram dont work with the MB i get

budget for the MB about 100quid ish

and whatever for the ram

cheers!

drunkenmonkey · 2 Jan 2008 at 23:13

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-019-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=148 this is the psu im using

drunkenmonkey · 2 Jan 2008 at 23:54

yeh if i remember right it does have the right connectors

if i was honest that MB is a bit expensive

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=5&subid=913

what about some of the cheaper gigabyte p35 ds3 boards are these any good

drunkenmonkey · 3 Jan 2008 at 00:10

ok ive added this one you recommended to my basket

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-088-GI&tool=3

just need some ram now! whats good for this board

drunkenmonkey · 3 Jan 2008 at 00:22

il get the geil seem as im running vista 32bit but thanks for all your help!