hello,
i am interested in building a computer first and foremost for a cheap price. i was thinking of spending no more than $250 on a processor, motherboard, and ram. i have case, adequate power supply, pci-e 16x video card, hard drive, dvd-rw, wireless pci card, etc.
what i would like advice on is what motherboard i could buy now and which cpu and ram i could put in it now for a budget, but then be able to replace the cpu and add more ram in the future. i realize things are always becoming obsolete and it's impossible to totally future-proof a computer.
i was thinking either a socket 775 or 1156 intel board, or an amd am2/am2+/am3 board. i was thinking i could get one of the cheapest cpus that would fit in the board now, and maybe find one with 4 ram slots and put one 2gb or 4gb stick in and hopefully allow it to upgrade to 16gb sometime down the line. i would then also like to have a fast processor option. it seems like some high end 1156 or am3 chips might still be a good upgrade in a year or two if all i'm doing is web browsing and other miscellaneous non-cpu-intensive, non-gaming tasks.
so... is this possible? maybe a board with...
4 ram slots (2gb or 4gb now, maybe 16gb max ram in the future)
socket for a cheap processor today
socket that allows one of today's expensive processors in the future
ideally it would have IDE/PATA support (most ive looked at seem to have this available, but it's not mandatory)
i guess my question boils down to wondering which of today's sockets has the widest range of processors. is it intel with a really slow/cheap 775 and some recent 775 that's still priced at a few hundred bucks or more? an 1156 with an i3 today and maybe get an i7 when i can afford it? am2 today and am3 quad next year?
thank you!
i am interested in building a computer first and foremost for a cheap price. i was thinking of spending no more than $250 on a processor, motherboard, and ram. i have case, adequate power supply, pci-e 16x video card, hard drive, dvd-rw, wireless pci card, etc.
what i would like advice on is what motherboard i could buy now and which cpu and ram i could put in it now for a budget, but then be able to replace the cpu and add more ram in the future. i realize things are always becoming obsolete and it's impossible to totally future-proof a computer.
i was thinking either a socket 775 or 1156 intel board, or an amd am2/am2+/am3 board. i was thinking i could get one of the cheapest cpus that would fit in the board now, and maybe find one with 4 ram slots and put one 2gb or 4gb stick in and hopefully allow it to upgrade to 16gb sometime down the line. i would then also like to have a fast processor option. it seems like some high end 1156 or am3 chips might still be a good upgrade in a year or two if all i'm doing is web browsing and other miscellaneous non-cpu-intensive, non-gaming tasks.
so... is this possible? maybe a board with...
4 ram slots (2gb or 4gb now, maybe 16gb max ram in the future)
socket for a cheap processor today
socket that allows one of today's expensive processors in the future
ideally it would have IDE/PATA support (most ive looked at seem to have this available, but it's not mandatory)
i guess my question boils down to wondering which of today's sockets has the widest range of processors. is it intel with a really slow/cheap 775 and some recent 775 that's still priced at a few hundred bucks or more? an 1156 with an i3 today and maybe get an i7 when i can afford it? am2 today and am3 quad next year?
thank you!
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