My Current Mobo/CPU/Ram is starting to look a little ragged now (My mobo doesnt even support DDR ram ) So im going to upgrade. However im on a little bit of a budget. Also i want to have a tinker with overclocking. I've half decided on the following hardware, does anyone agree or have any other ideas for me ? AMD Duron 1800 266FSB CPU - OEM £22.99 Asus A7V8X-X SKT A KT400 8x AGP DDR Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 £35.87 Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM £44.99
They sound ok for a budget. COuld you give us a number to work with so as to suggest alternative specs? You will need a heatsink to go with those.
Ive got my Thermaltake Volcano 11 for cooling My pricerange is around £125-ish although i wouldnt mind paying a little more but not much
Abit NF7 v2.0 nForce2 (Socket A) Motherboard (MB-035-AB) £49.29 Including VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Abit.html I've never been a fan of crucial ram, i'd reccomend this :TwinMOS 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS2.5 (MY-001-TM) £61.69 Including VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_TwinMOS_147.html If you were prepared to spend about £30 more i'd suggest the barton 2500+ £54.93 Including VAT @ http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/amd_athlon_xp_barton.html
What do you need, are Nforce2 Ultra 400 motherboard, AMD cpu with TB Core, and atleast pc3200 RAM. Example: AMD AthlonXP 1800+ (1533MHz) 256KB L2 cache 266MHz Bus T-bred (maybe you can o/c it to 2800+ or so, if you get cpu with right stepping... cant remember which ones are good though) Epox Socket A EP-8RDA+ nForce Ultra 400, ATX (cheaper than Abit/Asus) TwinMOS DDRAM PC-3200 400MHz 256MB CL 2,5 Review (later you can add another 256mb RAM, and then you can benefit from Dual-DDRAM.
