Need VERY cheap cpu/board

[xubidoo]

right im trying to upgrade a m8s PC with as cheap as i can get tbh as long as its a fair bit better than wat he has.

i was looking at these..

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+%28Intel%29/Asrock+4CoreDual-SATA2+Socket+775+Motherboard+?productId=28535

and this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-185-IN

now the bad points..

he currently has the following

AMD XP2000+ (1667mhz)
epox 8k3a+ board
1gb PC2700 ram ddr1
Geforce 6600GT 128mb AGP

and he simply cannt afford to upgrade ram yet or gfx card.

so i assume the Asrock board is the only option ? as it will take his current ram/gfx

i picked the celeron based on price ,but will it be much faster than the AMD he has currently ? ive no idea about celerons tbh.

suggestions welcome but it MUST be as cheap as possible :)
he wont be playing crysis on it but would like to play some newish games even if it means dropping down the detail a fair bit ,his current pc cant play anything thats recent.

thanks

[cdawall]

the new conroe-L celerons are dead even with a64s clock for clock so as far as single cores go they are great esp. when you oc (they hit 4ghz or so)

[B1gg3stN00b]

I'd go for a cheap microATX board (usually cheaper, I find them easy to work with) and a Pentium D.

[choppy]

ive got a spare gigabyte 945p-ds3 and 2 x 512mb ddr2 667mhz kingston value ram which i just upgraded from, bought them new in october, also got a celeron 336, 2.8ghz i think

PM me if your interested

[xubidoo]

thanks for the offer but tbh itd be out of his price range as he would need a pci-e gfx card as well .

[Darknova]

Seriously, don't bother. Get him to save up. He wont get anything decent on such a low budget.

[xubidoo]

he doesnt have any money tbh ,its either somethign this low spec OR buy a faster amd xp chip for his current system,max itll take after flashing bios is an xp2800+ still pretty slow by todays standards.
or nothing at all :(

i would think that even tho the above celeron is low spec it should still wipe the floor with his amd xp2000+ ?

[cdawall]

it will that celeron is a damn good chip i would go for it if i were him and lookin for a bargain bin upgrade

[hat]

At least get an E2140, single core is way outdated.

[xubidoo]

id love him to get 1 tbh ,but unfortuantly a E2140 1.6GHz is almost double the price of a Celeron 420 1.60GHz and every penny counts to him atm.


E2140 1.6 - £44.64

Vs

Cel 420 1.6 - £24.66

Not ideal i know ,but as long as its a decent improvement over his current xp2000+ im sure he will be happy.

But i am a little worried about the Asrock board ,seems a few ppl have had probs with them.

[hat]

And don't count on a high overclock either. Those asrock boards are very limited. You would be lucky to get 300FSB out of it.

[trog100]

i wouldnt bother.. it wont play games better than what he has.. a new grafix card will help.. nothing else will.. a 6600gt can be "cheaply" bettered..

trog

[JrRacinFan]

If he is such a bad saver, I would tell him to go for the celeron/Asrock combo. He could then migrate to a PCI-e/DDR2, especially migrate to ddr2 pretty quickly.

[cdawall]

look at the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA to it has the PT880 chipset which is a well known good oc'r