which cpu up to £80

[Ish]

Hi

Which cpu is the one to buy for up to £80 inc vat if i am NOT overclocking?

Thanks

 

[VaderDSL]

A64 3700+

 

[oweneades]

A64 3700+

 

[GinG]

can you not sqeeze another £20 and get the intel 6300 @ 1.86ghz?

You WILL not look back!

 

[Simon D]

Which socket on your MB?

 

[oweneades]

can you not sqeeze another £20 and get the intel 6300 @ 1.86ghz?

You WILL not look back!

Errrrr make that an extra £55 once you add in a cooler.

For stock I doubt the difference would be that much compared to the extra outlay. (although it would depend heavily on what you use the processor for).

 

[Ish]

thanks all. the budget given to me was £80 so a64 it is

 

[trojan698]

surely it depends on your board?

 

[harris1986]

indeed it does, if you tell us what board you are running we can better spec you a cpu? we don't even know what socket your running lol

as the old saying goes "help us help you!"

 

[PeteLucky7]

Loads of reasonable priced cpus around now that will all quite happily run current programs. Eg all of the pentium 4 range, the lower end of the dual core range, all single core A64's on both 939 and AM2 if you shop around.



Conroe was good not just for the rich(er) people who bought it, but for skinter people like me who could afford reasonable chips after it brought prices right down.

 

[Simon D]

Hi Ish

We need to know what board you are running then we can answer your question

 

[Ish]

sorry i should have said it can be any socket as the mobo has not been purchased yet.

Needs to be able to run all of todays apps and some gaming as well.

 

[PeteLucky7]

At that price range I would either:

Go AM2 and get a 3800+

or

Go 775, get the mobo and drop in a £50 or so Pentium 4 in until you can stretch to a conroe/the prices comes down.

But that's just my opinion.

 

[GinG]

Errrrr make that an extra £55 once you add in a cooler.

For stock I doubt the difference would be that much compared to the extra outlay. (although it would depend heavily on what you use the processor for).

Sorry, i thought he was asking for a chip, not chip and cooling.

 

[Ish]

Sorry, i thought he was asking for a chip, not chip and cooling.

I meant cpu with HSF

 

[young lad]

check the members market if you can and pick up a x2 3800+ maybe?

 

[trojan698]

check the members market if you can and pick up a x2 3800+ maybe?

Good plan.

 

[sneakyd]

No harm in looking in the MM.

Could you not wait a couple of weeks and gather more cash together?