worth it??

[Danny862]

£220 budget (low i know)
found this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-019-OP&groupid=43&catid=339&subcat=1803
any other reccomendations ?

 

[Danny862]

thanks for all the advice
any thoughts on this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-321-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567
and
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-039-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817

i have also already got one of these
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-028-CM

 

[Danny862]

ok, decision made. going to save up more

next question
i3, i5 (SB) or X4?
4 or 8GB ddr3?
GTX460?

or what about a SSD? they would give a decent proformance increase wont they?

 

[Danny862]

think i could just about live with that, apparently it is easy to get 3.0GHz, just need time to install my coolermaster tx3

 

[Danny862]

Not worth it. Athlon II X2 is roughly on par with Intel E5000 series...if you get a 2nd hand E5200/E5300 for around £20-£25, you would be easily able to overclock it to 3.6-3.8GHz (I've overclocked my dad's PC which has the same motherboard as you and overclocked the E5200 to 3.8GHz).

Add another 2GB RAM for around £20~£25.

And possible get the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro V2 for £15, that's only around £55-£65 in total for the same performance as that £175 bundle (but of course you would have to do the overclock yourself, but it's really easy on that board with the E5000 CPU.)

But really, if you really was gonna upgrade, go for a Quad-core or Triple Core at least.

can you confirm that 2x2GB of DDR2-800 will work with this chipset?
there is a lot of complaints about the memory capability on other fourms