recommend me some new stuff

[RobTi]

So finally looking to upgrade from a SKT A set up.
Can someone recommend whats the best motherboard cpu set up to go for(excluding a fx), don't do hard core gaming if thats any help but have always tried to go for the best that i could in the past.
Thanks
Robert

[RDL]

Well firstly, do you have a budget in mind or are you just looking for the best out there you can get?

[Workaholic]

What's your budget?

If <£600 complete, I got my cousin a 939pin Abit Motherboard, 3200Mhz 64bit AMD processor, 512MB Corsair memory, ferrari enzo case, 200GB HDD, 17" TFT, DVD Dual layer burner and a Nvidia 6600GT0 PCI Express Graphics card.

Fairly good price almost 11/2 months ago...

[Thorsson]

939 mobo, non-SLi - DFI if you OC, ASUS if not (but plenty of other candidates).
Dual Core AMDX2 to suit your budget.
PCI-E GFX card (hard to be specific as "don't do hardcore gaming" suggests you do some - but which games?)
2 x 1Gb Branded Memory, PC3200 or more if you OC.
Decent PSU
Seagate SATA disks offer probably the best deal at the moment due to 5 year warranty. Think about RAID.
Rest depends on what you want, but I'd def suggest treating yourself to one of the newer Logitech Mice.

[RobTi]

Thanks for the replies
At the moment will keep the rest of my set up so just looking for motherboard\cpu recommends and also like to o\c the system.
thanks
Robert

[Thorsson]

Yes, but. If you get a new mobo it's likely to need a PCI Express GFX card - they don't have AGP. Of course you can still get AGP boards, but it's not really recommended.

[RobTi]

Thanks Thorsson i understand that what i meant was i am going 7800 for graphics and keeping my ram,psu drives etc as these are all upgraded over the last few months so now i am looking for the m\b cpu that most people would say was the best bang for bucks at the moment.
Thanks
Robert