Yeah so i'm upgrading, it's long overdue but there's never much of a need to be honest. I'm a casual gamer.
I propose the AMD phenom ii x4 965 BE (which is at a great price at the moment while still keeping up with some more expensive CPUs).
Which mobo would you recommend? To be honest i don't want to spend a huge amount since i've been dishing out too much recently on various goods.
Currently i've got a GTX 275, some low end DDR2 RAM (2x2GB), an old pentium dual core E5200 (@ 2.87GHz) and an ASUS P5KPL-AM mobo. It runs games surprisingly well, however my CPU definitely is outdated.
I've been doing some research and there's a couple of £30-£40 AMD mobos that i would like some advice on. This system is most likely going to be a sort of dead end one, in other words when i upgrade after this again i'll be scraping the whole system.
I might buy some DDR3 RAM to go with it as well since i've heard it's much cheaper than it once was.
http://www.ebuyer.com/186428-amd-phenom-ii-x4-965-black-edition-3-4ghz-socket-am3-6mb-l3-hdz965fbgmbox - AMD phenom II x4 965 BE CPU
http://www.ebuyer.com/319620-asus-mb-m5a78l-m-lx-v2-amd-am3-uatx-90-mibfw0-g0eay00z-m5a78l-m-lx-v2 - just one mobo in particular i had my eye on.
http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pricelow&store=2&cat=&subcat=3536&limit=10&page=1 - the cheapest AMD3+ mobos available (is the said CPU AMD3 or AMD3+?)
Could any kind person check the compatibility of the CPU and mobo aswell, i'm pretty sure they work together but there are downsides to buying cheap mobos ( bad cooling, bad overclocking abilities, not durable etc).
I wouldn't mind dibbling and dabbling in some overclocking too, nothing hardcore or potentially damaging, but to around 3.8GHz.
Cheers all, thanks for your time.
I propose the AMD phenom ii x4 965 BE (which is at a great price at the moment while still keeping up with some more expensive CPUs).
Which mobo would you recommend? To be honest i don't want to spend a huge amount since i've been dishing out too much recently on various goods.
Currently i've got a GTX 275, some low end DDR2 RAM (2x2GB), an old pentium dual core E5200 (@ 2.87GHz) and an ASUS P5KPL-AM mobo. It runs games surprisingly well, however my CPU definitely is outdated.
I've been doing some research and there's a couple of £30-£40 AMD mobos that i would like some advice on. This system is most likely going to be a sort of dead end one, in other words when i upgrade after this again i'll be scraping the whole system.
I might buy some DDR3 RAM to go with it as well since i've heard it's much cheaper than it once was.
http://www.ebuyer.com/186428-amd-phenom-ii-x4-965-black-edition-3-4ghz-socket-am3-6mb-l3-hdz965fbgmbox - AMD phenom II x4 965 BE CPU
http://www.ebuyer.com/319620-asus-mb-m5a78l-m-lx-v2-amd-am3-uatx-90-mibfw0-g0eay00z-m5a78l-m-lx-v2 - just one mobo in particular i had my eye on.
http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pricelow&store=2&cat=&subcat=3536&limit=10&page=1 - the cheapest AMD3+ mobos available (is the said CPU AMD3 or AMD3+?)
Could any kind person check the compatibility of the CPU and mobo aswell, i'm pretty sure they work together but there are downsides to buying cheap mobos ( bad cooling, bad overclocking abilities, not durable etc).
I wouldn't mind dibbling and dabbling in some overclocking too, nothing hardcore or potentially damaging, but to around 3.8GHz.
Cheers all, thanks for your time.
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