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[Oldtimer]

~S~ All

It's time to throw away the Sempron CPU and get something decent.

[Klinger]

OT, you are no fool m8.

I see no point in quad core yet, specially if your gonna use XP.

Heres a good upgrade bundle that'll do you proud: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 39&subcat=

I just got a new psu : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =CA-023-OC

which was a good price/performance balance. Good luck.

[Jabo]

Hmmm, yep, I agree with Klinger, although I 'spect I'll be going down the quad-core route at some point over the next 12 months - might even try Vista (but then again - nah). It's a good idea to bang in plenty of decent memory though - I'm currently running 2Gb of DDR2 400 Corsair RAM (nothing to do with the F4U

[BBloke]

Yep.. certainly a nice bundle and here's something to think on about memory.

For as little as £5 you could improve the memory to GeIL 2gb PC6400.

[delta7]

here is the shop that I purchased my system from

http://www.computerhq.co.uk/

you can see that they do upgrade bundles of motherboard/processor/memory or barebones systems - my machine is the coolermaster case which includes coolermaster power supply with asus p5ne motherboard+6750 dual core+ 6600 graphix+2gb of corsair and came in at £500 including p+p - no operating system

this was after a few months research to get the best deal - you can e-mail them if you want anything changed (e.g. you have your own graphics card you want to use so discount for this or replace one part with another) and they get back quickly with a quote

you can also check e-bay but watch carefully for the components - sometimes they look good but fall down in one area

other places to shop for components in uk are

http://www.ebuyer.com/

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.aspx

http://www.scan.co.uk/

http://www.lowestonweb.com/default.asp? ... 09DBFCE353

http://www.saverstore.com/

good luck