Spec me mobo/cpu/memory combo please

[unclelonghair]

As my PC has just died completely I've decided that trying to pinpoint which component has gone could get messy, so am going to replace the lot.

For £250-300 I need a mobo/cpu/memory combo to replace my current set up of AMD X2 4200, Abit AN8 Fatality, 2Gb RAM

Not bothered if it's AMD AM2 or Intel.

Will be used for online gaming, Video encoding, general surfing.

I've posted this in the mobo section as that would seem to be the critical component.

Thanks in advance.

 

[unclelonghair]

Thanks for that - it's the sort of direction I was heading in. Any reason you went for the Gigabyte over the Asus P5K, as that looks interesting, and is a similar price?

Budget is probably going to end up closer to £400 now, as I will have to replace optical drives and/or HDD's due to lack of IDE on the latest boards (I will need at least one new SATA HDD to do a fresh install so I can try and recover what's on current drive).

Not really got into overclocking, so was thinking 6600 and the Geil Value RAM at £55 - not sure which would be the best option - slower processor, better RAM, or faster processor, poorer RAM.