Hi Folks
My PC of nearly 8 years is finally going down the pan, its an old Pentium Dual Core D830 which I custom built many moons ago. I am having a few issues with Hard drives continuously dropping out of the OS even though I have tested the disks which are all ok, blue screen of deaths etc. I have even reinstalled from scratch the OS.
I now am looking to purchase a motherboard CPU and memory bundle so I can rip the old kit out and freshen it up a bit. I don't want to spend too much as I only use the PC for internet and work which may comprise of me logging onto the corporate VPN but also I may want to run some test virtual machines using VMware workstation for R&D purposes and have very limited requirements for gaming, the only game I will probably play is via Steam and that is Counter Strike Source.
So I have been looking at a few options and because I dont want to spend loads, I think the AMD option would be the route to go for my budget.
This is what I have specced so far:
AMD FX-6300 6 core Socket AM3+ processor
8GB 1866Mhz DDR3 CL10 HyperX Fury White Memory
Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 990x Socket AM3+ ATX Motherboard
This is coming around ?235 mark which is really a bit more than I want to spend, want to keep it to about ?200 if I can. I have the case, 3 Hard drives which includes 1 SSD, 500W PSU and a PCI-E graphics card which I plan to reuse with the new bundle.
As I dont really keep in the know with PCs, I just wanted to get others opinions on this, ideally if there is anything out there for around ?200 that could be better or same of what I specced that would be ideal.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I been looking at second hand good via ebay, would these come recommended?
Thanks
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My PC of nearly 8 years is finally going down the pan, its an old Pentium Dual Core D830 which I custom built many moons ago. I am having a few issues with Hard drives continuously dropping out of the OS even though I have tested the disks which are all ok, blue screen of deaths etc. I have even reinstalled from scratch the OS.
I now am looking to purchase a motherboard CPU and memory bundle so I can rip the old kit out and freshen it up a bit. I don't want to spend too much as I only use the PC for internet and work which may comprise of me logging onto the corporate VPN but also I may want to run some test virtual machines using VMware workstation for R&D purposes and have very limited requirements for gaming, the only game I will probably play is via Steam and that is Counter Strike Source.
So I have been looking at a few options and because I dont want to spend loads, I think the AMD option would be the route to go for my budget.
This is what I have specced so far:
AMD FX-6300 6 core Socket AM3+ processor
8GB 1866Mhz DDR3 CL10 HyperX Fury White Memory
Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 990x Socket AM3+ ATX Motherboard
This is coming around ?235 mark which is really a bit more than I want to spend, want to keep it to about ?200 if I can. I have the case, 3 Hard drives which includes 1 SSD, 500W PSU and a PCI-E graphics card which I plan to reuse with the new bundle.
As I dont really keep in the know with PCs, I just wanted to get others opinions on this, ideally if there is anything out there for around ?200 that could be better or same of what I specced that would be ideal.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I been looking at second hand good via ebay, would these come recommended?
Thanks
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