Brother's Build

[nffc10]

Alright. My brother wants to get a new computer. At the moment he wants to keep:
250gb HD
His case/monitor etc
X1950Pro AGP

So i was looking around for a CPU, Motherboard and some ram. Here's what i came up with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6GHz) Socket AM2 Dual Core 1MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor - £97
ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA nForce3 250 Skt AM2 SATA 8 channel audio ATX - £35
Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2) DDR2 PC2-5300 CL=5 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR2-667 1.8V - £45.

That's all he needs, what do you guys think? Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Kornowski]

That looks like a good suggestion, especially as he wants to keep his AGP card... Can he upgrade to a PCI-e with that board?

 

[nffc10]

No.

But it's only £35, so he can just get a new board later on if he wants to.

 

[DrCuddles]

From looking at the model specification here:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=AM2NF3-VSTA&s=

I do not believe he can have PCI-E.

EDIT: Didnt refresh page before post so i just kinda repeated waht you said, sorry

 

[Kornowski]

Yeah, That's true, well, at least it'll do the job untill he decided he wants a PCIe GPU...

Nice work Laim!

 

[nffc10]

Liam. LOL!!

Not Laim.

 

[Kornowski]

Sorry, I miss-typed it

Looks good though!

 

[DrCuddles]

Hahaha, so the spell checker built into the web page aint good enough for you dan?
You just got to go solo
PM me plz dude im goin out for like 20 mins but will be back then

 

[Kornowski]

lol, I don't use it

Alright sure...

 

[pslee]

go for 6000+ and get pci-e

 

[nffc10]

Have you read what i put? He's keeping his X1950Pro which is an AGP!!! The motherboard i found that has an AGP slot can only have up to a 5000+

 

[Kornowski]

I think it's a great build you've got planned out Liam