Spec me Mobo, CPU, and RAM for £350

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Nifty

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Hi guys

As the title suggests, I'm looking into a new motherboard, CPU and RAM to replace the current ones in my current system (which is a old Gigabyte motherboard, Pentium 4 3GHz and 1GB RAM).

I'm looking at a budget of around £350.

As I'm spending a fair bit of money as well as being a student, I would like the motherboard to be ready for future developments as much as possible as I don't want to be buying a new motherboard when the new 45nm CPU's are out as well as when DDR3 comes down in price.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Richard
 
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If you are buying a new CPU/mobo/RAM set, then I don't think you should be too concerned about the forthcoming 45nm CPUs tbh.

If you buy a Q6600 (go stepping), An Asus P5K-C and some PC2-6400, these will still be performing for the couple of years. The P5K-C has both DDR2 and DDR3 compatibility so you can change the RAM without upgrading the mobo.

The combination of the 3 will give you plenty of overclocking and come in easy under your budget.
 
I was going to suggest something like

ASUS P5K
Q6600
2GB of some C4 800MHz DDR II RAM

But if you want DDR III, you'll need another Gigabyte board, but I don't think it has 45nm support.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys

Both them are identical and both, after hunting them down on the site, seem to be very good.

I'll see what other poeple suggest before I purchase them.
 
as said if you want ddr2 and ddr3 then

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thats under 300 so you could add an aftermarket cooler like the tuniq tower and still be under budget and you could overclock it
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

After a little thought, I have decided to get a new case and hard drive to compliments the new motherboard, cpu and ram.

My final items are:

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What do you think?
 
Bargain :)

What graphics card you got?

Also, it might be worth grabbing a third party CPU cooler if you are going to overclock that Q6600, so get the OEM Q6600 and then buy the artic freezer pro is a great buy for around £18.
 
Sorry Admiral, didn't realise you'd replied until now.

Have ordered everything now and up and running. It's all working fine (apart from the odd occurrence of Vista halting on boot-up for a few seconds before the loading bar fully appears (Vista bug?)) and I'm pleased with the end result :).

I've got the stock cooler on at the moment. Thinking of picking up a third party cpu cooler at some point however, I've never overclocked before so it's not urgent at the moment.

Regarding your question on the graphics card, have transferred my old 8800 GTS 320MB over from the old PC.

Happy new year guys by the way!
 
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