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
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

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