Looking for a new motherboard and cpu

[JoeDunn]

so ye i have around 200 to spend seen some bundles for around 220 ish with an i5 but thought this was a good place to ask before i jump in to anything.

currently i have a ASRock G31M-S R2.0 with a intel pentium dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00 GHz ( ye i know sucks lol) with a Nvidia 9800 GT

so ye any one have any good website like ebuyer the do bundles or give me an idea what i should be looking at for that price range cant really afford a new GFX card at the moment that can wait another month or so.

thanks in advance

 

[JealY]

Keep in mind that your current RAM is DDR2 so if you upgrade you will (most likely) buy a DDR3 motherboard and will need some new RAM also.

I buy everything for my PC from Scan, here is their bundles page if you wanna check it out.

 

[JoeDunn]

ye i know about the ram i seen this today tho http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/...00-Memory-Module-Lifetime-Warranty_46126.html so will be buying that aswell or another if anyone can find some cheaper cheers for link having a scan now

also is it worth it to get a CPU Cooler or not

 

[JealY]

If you go with Intel, definitely. Their stock heat sinks are terrible.

 

[DevilsKnight]

Get one of these bad boys http://www.ebuyer.com/176157-arctic...o-rev-2-socket-775-1156-1155-1366-ac-frz-7pr2

Cheap and work brilliantly, got one on my 3770k 1155 i7, never seen it go over 35 degrees. Its quiet as well.

Dk