PC upgrade check

[quaf_man_dan]

Hi,

I'm possibly going to be upgrading my wifes PC in the near future. Will be used mostly for gaming (but not high end - Everquest being the main chunk of this), web browsing and office stuff. May also be a wee bit of DVD ripping/burning - but mostly thats done on mine.

Wanted to check if there was anything that you folks could see here that I should avoid or alternatives. Bear in mind I will only have about £100 to buy mobo, CPU and RAM.

Will be running XP pro / Ubuntu

What I'm looking at atm is:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/166117
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160925
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160949

any advice appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[floppybootstomp]

For a £100.00 budget it will have to be an AMD system.

The memory's excellent, that leaves you eighty quid to buy a motherboard & CPU.

I'll put my neck out and say that any motherboard with inbuilt graphics is NOT suitable for gaming, even Everquest.

You're going to be hard pushed to find something suitable for that price.

Consider these two, better choice imo:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161639

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136114

Within budget and better suited to your requiremnents.

This budget assuming you have a suitable CPU heatsink/fan for the AM2 CPU.

If not, go for a cheaper CPU if the budget is strict, or pay a little more for the retail version, which comes with a cooler.

 

[quaf_man_dan]

cheers for the reply will look into those links, should have stated in my post that wouldn't be relying on onboard gfx, she's got a 7600GT in her current board so will be swapping that over.

 

[floppybootstomp]

cheers for the reply will look into those links, should have stated in my post that wouldn't be relying on onboard gfx, she's got a 7600GT in her current board so will be swapping that over.

It wasn't so much the onboard graphics I was criticising, more the fact that every motherboard that has onboard graphics is by definition a budget board and therefore built to a lower spec than most of it's graphics-less peers.

The board I've linked is a good board for the price, is all I'll say

 

[Abarbarian]

For £3 to £6 more you could have any of these cpus aswell, the last one is the fastest and comes with a stock cooler.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/138891

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168195

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167284