Motherboards & CPUs

tammy66

Having assembled 2 or 3 PCs for my own use the one i am using now is about due to be retired ,i have been trying to source a inexpensive or budget motherboard and matching cpu
I have tried Scan, EBuyer,Bt and amazon and find that the prices are expensive can anyone suggest where i can find a new ATX motherboard with DDR4 and a matching Quad core cpu at a inexpensive price or am i missing something on the sites i have tried

Thank you

Neil_Jones

Depends what you want the board to do. You get what you pay for, pay for a cheap processor and you get poor performance. What is your budget exactly and what do you want the computer to do?

DDR4 memory is expensive at the moment compared to DDR3 but its apparently due to fall in price soon. Usually when memory prices peak it means the likes of Apple have new products in the offering.

tammy66

the pc is used for browsing emails

tammy66

Sorry
Browsing & Emails

esuhl

^^ Browsing and emailing are some of the least-demanding things you can do on a PC.


What's wrong with your current machine? Have you tried reinstalling the OS to clean out any junk?

EveryWhere

I'm sure I'm not the only one befuddled as to why one would need a Quad core CPU and DDR4 RAM for "browsing and emails".

Perhaps fitting a solid state drive as your boot drive and clean installing your OS to that may be enough.

That was certainly enough for my nine year old machine and I do a lot more than just browsing and emailing.

Perhaps too much junk, in conjunction with an old style HDD means you aren't getting the best out of what you have,

What do you have now?

onomatopoeia99

EveryWhere wrote: »

I'm sure I'm not the only one befuddled as to why one would need a Quad core CPU and DDR4 RAM for "browsing and emails".

Perhaps fitting a solid state drive as your boot drive and clean installing your OS to that may be enough.

That was certainly enough for my nine year old machine and I do a lot more than just browsing and emailing.

My eight year old machine still zips along on a mechanical boot drive (albeit at 15000rpm one I pulled from a RAID array in a decommissioned rackmount server) and I've never done a clean OS install beyond the initial W7 install I made when I built it, just accepted the free W10 upgrade..

arciere

Agree with the others, a new computer would be an overkill for just emails and browsing.

In any case, if you are buying brand-new, don't buy DDR3 even if they are cheaper, they are too old and will leave you with shorter upgrade margins in future. Better to spend a few £ more and go for the more recent DDR4 and be able to upgrade for longer.

EveryWhere

arciere wrote: »

Agree with the others, a new computer would be an overkill for just emails and browsing.

In any case, if you are buying brand-new, don't buy DDR3 even if they are cheaper, they are too old and will leave you with shorter upgrade margins in future. Better to spend a few £ more and go for the more recent DDR4 and be able to upgrade for longer.

Somehow I think that's the point behind the OP's post...

where i can find a new ATX motherboard with DDR4 and a matching Quad core cpu ..

[Deleted User]

A tablet could do that for you, you don't need to upgrade anything.

Cisco001

Ryzen 3 2200G + B450 motherboard + 8GB RAM with 250GB SSD will last you for a while

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£84.98 @ PC World Business)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£68.40 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£67.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £221.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-27 10:58 BST+0100