Will these get along?

[ipunk]

Hey guys and gals,

First off, great to be here. I've been lurking for the past week or so trying to cram in some swotting up.

Sorry to be so unoriginal in my opening post here but I am in need of some of your professional advice.

With a budget of £400 im looking for a new mobo,cpu and ram.

Ive come up with the following from overclockers store.

MSI RD480 Neo2 Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-066-MS)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)

I'll be wanting to use it for browsing, music, video, design (mostly photoshop) some video encoding and most importantly gaming (graphics card to come later).

I have no experience with overclocking and no desire to do so atm so really want the best setup my 400 quid can get me whilst running at stock speeds.

I already own a Antec Super Lanboy case and ive just bought an FSP 500W PSU about a month ago. My hardrives and dvd writer are staying for now.I'll possibly buy an X1800 later on when my wallet has recovered.

Thanks for any help you guys can offer

 

[fenderbass86]

Hey ipunk, welcome to the forums

If you want to run everything at stock speeds for now, you should go with an Asus motherboard, they're probably the most stable, reliable motherboards around (i have one too). It won't overclock as well as some other branded ones but it'll do it's fair share so you can get yourself familiar with the technique.

CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM) 1
£171.95 £171.95
MB-101-AS Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS) 1
£56.95 £56.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) 1
£104.95 £104.95
Subtotal £333.85
VAT £58.43
Total £392.28

 

[ipunk]

Wow that was fast for a Monday morning

Thank you for the warm welcome and the much appreciated advice

Funnily enough I was looking at that very board yesterday after reading someone elses spec check.

More stable then, great! And 10 quid cheaper too (2 packs of ciggies)

Well that settles it then, im going to order this lot sometime later today, unless someone comes along and tells me to change the ram hehe

Thanks again

 

[vanandjuanunited]

Welcome.
Would agree with the above. Ram not really important with AMD 64 chips as you can use a divider to overclock them. The 3800 should hopefully be a decent clocker for when you decide o get a free upgrade.
Also look at the Abit KN8 motherboard.
If you know you are going for an ati card then an sli board is pointless likewise if you know you will never sli then go for a single slot mobo.