Upgrading

[tratatux]

I'm upgrading my pc this week and it's likely to be an Intel E6600, but I have no idea on the motherboard. My mates Core2duo keeps having blue screens and apparantly its due to the mobo chipset as some have problems with Core2duo's. My mate can't remember which chipset is the one that has no problems, but he said the mobos with that set are about ?100 plus. Sli would be nice, but I'm not too fussy as I only have one gfx card at the moment and a matching one is over ?120, and I will probably just wait and get a DX10 card when I have the money.
I'm limited to about ?250 for a chip, mobo and 2gb ram so I'm starting to think that an AMD X2 would be a better option as there doesn't seem to be the motherboard issue. 2gb of corair XMS2 ram is about ?52 in most places so that leaves me with roughly ?200 for the mobo and chip.
I usually buy stuff from ebuyer, but if you know of better or cheaper sites let me know. I may be able to get the bits at trade price, through a shop, but I still need to know what to buy.
Cheers

[Crippler]

Check out Newegg.com. The reviews there are usually a great indicator of a quality product or not. Although I love me some AMD. I would go with the Core2Duo over a X2. It's just a far better performer at this point for the money.

[namehater]

im ordering my e6750 next week, its supposed to be top of the for overclocking, because of the G0 stepping, im going with the asus p5kc motherboard, 8600gts, its dx10 but the price is nice and it has awesome reviews

btw, if your ordering soon, newegg has crucial ballistix 2gb kit pc800 for 109.99 and has a mail in rebate of $40, but its only good until 9/7 i believe, i ordered mine last night =)

I have almost the exact same setup, p5k deluxe, e6600, and 8600 gts its a great value but the e6600 is getting older very quickly

also zipzoomfly.com is a great site fast shipping low prices

[KEEZY]

Arcade, FTW!

[Desi Cuse]

Originally Posted by DELTACOMMANDA

also zipzoomfly.com is a great site fast shipping low prices

ZoomZooms favorite site.

[ZoomZoom71]

HAHA! Actually, I'm not sure I've ever purchased from there. I think they stole the idea for their site from my gamertag.

[namehater]

i bought from them, good place, my top online pc parts dealers are newegg, clubit, and zipzoomfly