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As the title says ive got a budget of £800 for a new tower or maybe a bit more depending on what i can talk out of my wife, im planning on keeping my x-fi sound card from my current build and maybe my 8800gts 640mb which is running standard clocks at the moment. Also my mouse and keyboard are both fine and I want to run it all on my dell 2405(think thats the number).
One thing id like to clear up is about my gts i can sell it at the moment for as much as £200 maybe and was thinking I may be best selling too upgrade to a GTX as i run 1920x1200 res. But is it worth me doing this do you think i can stretch the budget alittle if i get a card I would be happy with for atleast the next year. But other than this little dilemma I have speced the kit below if i do keep the GTS.
Done very little OC'ing before on my systems but im looking forward to trying to get 3.2-3.4 out of the Q6600 or at least that will be my target
Intel Core 2 Quad LGA775 Q6600 GO SLACR 2.40GHz Retail / Abit IP35 Pro / 2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500C5 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit, Tuniq Tower 120 Cooler - Bundle £446.44 inc VAT
Akasa Mirage 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU £99.86 inc VAT
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU £68.14 inc VAT
Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter £21.14 inc VAT
Western Digital Caviar RE 320GB 3200YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £52.86 inc VAT maybe get 2 for raid ? dont know much about raid but would be up for giving it a whirl.
Total : £701.31 inc Vat
I currently play WOW, BF2142 and company of heroes but I need this set up for playing the up coming releases like crysis, quake wars and maybe bioshock. Not too fussed about vista that can be a purchase for another time.
Thanks for any help.
One thing id like to clear up is about my gts i can sell it at the moment for as much as £200 maybe and was thinking I may be best selling too upgrade to a GTX as i run 1920x1200 res. But is it worth me doing this do you think i can stretch the budget alittle if i get a card I would be happy with for atleast the next year. But other than this little dilemma I have speced the kit below if i do keep the GTS.
Done very little OC'ing before on my systems but im looking forward to trying to get 3.2-3.4 out of the Q6600 or at least that will be my target
Intel Core 2 Quad LGA775 Q6600 GO SLACR 2.40GHz Retail / Abit IP35 Pro / 2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500C5 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit, Tuniq Tower 120 Cooler - Bundle £446.44 inc VAT
Akasa Mirage 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU £99.86 inc VAT
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU £68.14 inc VAT
Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter £21.14 inc VAT
Western Digital Caviar RE 320GB 3200YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £52.86 inc VAT maybe get 2 for raid ? dont know much about raid but would be up for giving it a whirl.
Total : £701.31 inc Vat
I currently play WOW, BF2142 and company of heroes but I need this set up for playing the up coming releases like crysis, quake wars and maybe bioshock. Not too fussed about vista that can be a purchase for another time.
Thanks for any help.
