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[TonyG]

Hi.

Looking for some advice, wife has had enough of her Dell lappy Inspiron 1525 and wants a small desktop to replce lappy.What would be a good motherboard/CPU? Budget is about £150. I dont mind if it is Intel or AMD.

[Ham]

Cellery E1200

P5k-VM

2GB cheapest PC-5300 you can find.

Should come to about ~£120 tops

[The Computer Council]

Is this to build yourself?

[TonyG]

yes I like to build my own pcs

[CERO]

E2160 + Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

U sure u dont need RAM?, a lil bit info about the remaining parts u got will be helpfull

[TonyG]

Have 2Gb of PC2-6400 ram, spare case, 3 HHD. may use one of my 8600 GTs

[CERO]

Great that fill fit the picture

[niky_d]

Hi. I would say for intel:

one of the intel cpus e2160/e2180/e2200 - 43£/48£/53£

and the mb: gigabyte ep35-ds3r - 80£

123-133£

and for amd:

MB:

Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 - 53£

or Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H(this is a micro-ATX board with integrated graphics)

- 62£

CPU:

AMD Phenom 8450 Triple-Core - 99£

152£-161£

I've taken the prizes from www.Komplett.co.uk .

So that would be my choice. Hope I could help.