Building A Full Option Pc - Need Help

[Gamezmania]

hey, i'm looking for advice on building my pc, i'm a web designer that uses alot of cpu and ussually run 5-6 programs at time and i often play games, first i looked at buying a new pc but i found there isnt one to support my needs that is in my budget.i'm looking for full option motherboard - i've notices intel processors are better then amd athlon if this is correct then i would like a motherboard that supports intel (something that lasts long), also i need a graphic card, 1 gb ram + and around 80gb + hd's.

any comments will help thanks a bunch;)

[glc]

I'd look at a Core 2 Duo and an Asus P5W DH motherboard. One of the midline ATI X1xxx cards would probably be sufficient.

[Gamezmania]

yes a core 2 duo is great but the accuall motherboard is to expensive 170 Quid is to much for the motherboard because i would still need to pay for power supply, ram, hd's, graphic card.

somthing for 80 quid would be a something more suitable to my budget, thanks alot :cool:

[Cricket]

What is your budget?

:) Cricket

[glc]

You aren't going to get a quality motherboard for a C2D for 80 quid - yet. Maybe in a couple more months when they get the 965 boards sorted out better or get some more 945 boards retrofitted.

[Chris_Rootes_Wizard]

gamez, are you from england?! what website are you looking at? (if any)

This mo/bo is around £60 from ebuyer:

Asus A8N-E Socket 939
NVNF4 Ultra ATX Green
Sound GigaLan
USB 2.0 FSB 1000 SATA R

Or you could use this for around £80:

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium skt939 nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet Firewire 8channel audio

Unless of corse, it really doesnt suit you.

[blue60007]

That's not a Core 2 Duo motherboard... (but if you don't want the extra expensive of a good C2D board...)

[Mr.Ferrari]

Asus P5B would be the only budget board I suggest. A guy I know booted 5 of them out of box with IDE Opticals.

But all the other 965's have been having some issues with the non-native IDE controller.. Especially on gigabyte DS3's...

Im not sure though if its in the 80 quid price margin....

[glc]

The basic P5B is pretty close, but it's closer to 100 quid by the time you pay VAT and delivery charges.

Chris, please don't suggest an AMD board when the poster is trying to put together a Core 2 Duo build. That's just going to start arguments which we don't want here.