£600ish Upgrade Budget

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Please can you give suggestions. I would like best bang per buck to move away from AMD.
This is kind of what I have found myself from looking about. I want something I can get the best performance for the price as I should be able to sell on flea bay most of my AMD 939 stuff. The only problem I see if that I would like 2 IDE connections on the MB. One for 2 dvd drives the other for a spare hard drive I use. Any suggestions on what I should do here? The gigabyte board sounds a real good overclocker but with only 1 ide socket.

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Looks good, do you need the 640mb version though, what res are you going to be gaming at?

As for the IDE problem, I would keep it for the DVD's and then maybe keep the IDE HDD drive as an external drive?
 
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Well im looking at getting a 22" widescreen monitor at some point when funds allow. So thought for the sake of how much more the 640mb version is I thought it was worth getting. As for the drive yeah a caddy would do the trick. Thanks
 
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