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I have a budget of £500 in total. Just over £100 for the SSD and about £85 for 8 GB of ram. Intend using onboard graphics. That said, I have an older card from a previous setup gf210 which was ok. Was thinking that the CPU graphic would be superior. Using existing case and 500w PS. Thanks for...

I have £225 budget for CPU and motherboard. Looking at what’s currently available I see the Intel i5 8400s priced at about £160 and the ASUS PRIME H310M-K MicroATX at £60. Would you say that this a good combination or should I allow more for the MB and less for the GPU? It will be used for non...

I suppose the other option open to me would be changed the mb. Ideally if I could get a SATA 3 mb that would utilise my existing CPU and memory

The mb is msi (microstar) 760gm-p23 (fx)

Thanks for your replies. What do I look for so as to establish if my mb would boot from the PCI?

MERGED QUESTION Question from dave_39 : "PCI express or SATA 2" Hi How much additional overall speed of a ssd could be expected by adding a PCI SATA 3 adapter apposed to using it on a SATA 2 only motherboard. I've read that the performance of SATA 3 to be double that of 2 but would a PCI...

Hi How much additional overall speed of a ssd could be expected by adding a PCI SATA 3 adapter apposed to using it on a SATA 2 only motherboard. I've read that the performance of SATA 3 to be double that of 2 but would a PCI produce the same results?

Many thanks!

Okay thanks for that. I take it that this method will accept a key that has been purchased rather than lost - as long as it is authentic.

Might be a silly question but: I have windows Home Premium installed on my PC, I also have the installation disk. I also have the product key for Windows 7 Professional but no disk. Could I use the Home Premium disk to install Windows 7 professional on a second PC (which currently has XP...

The one on ebay at that price is new

This one on ebay at £20 seems ok. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NVIDIA-Palit-GeForce-GF-210-Graphics-Card-1GB-PCI-Express-2-0-x16-HDMI-VGA-DVI-I-/360577948268?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item53f41eda6c The motherboard has onboard graphics, which is playing...

Hello, I have the GeForce6100PM-M2 (V3.0) motherboard and decided to fit a graphics card. Not looking for anything special, something like NVIDIA Palit GeForce GF 210 Graphics Card 1GB PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDMI VGA DVI-I. Would this be compatible? The motherboard spec just say PCI express not PCI...