$200 Budget Upgrade!

[lorthus]

I'm running an AMD Athlon 3500... with 4GB DDR2 and a 500gb Hard drive...
I was thinking about buying a new motherboard and processor, but keeping the ram...
Giving my $200 budget should I stick the Phenom/Phenom 2 and DDR2 ? or should I wait longer and get a new mobo/cpu/ram ?
Any suggestions with Mobo/CPU choice will be greatly appreciated...

 

[Proximon]

What speed is your RAM?

 

[lorthus]

My ram is DDR2800.
I mainly use my computer for programming and browsing the Internet, I don't do any gaming or anything...
It runs pretty good now but I just wanted to do a mobo + processor upgrade...

 

[Proximon]

For a few dollars more this would be a great upgrade. Especially since Intel doesn't use faster RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.181191

The motherboard is top notch and the processor is quite a bit faster. You could even overclock it a bit with the stock cooler or upgrade the cooler later to OC further.