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Devil_Spawn

Devil_Spawn

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ive got a budget of around £500, could stretch it to 600 if i really needed to. i do not need a case and i have some as5. Here are the parts i have found so far... are there any bad choices or possible improvements? would you reccomend the 9600gt instead?
thanks!

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Welcome to the forums. That Ram will be fine and still allow you to overclock, incidentally I'm sure it was about £4 more expensive yesterday.

I don't know too much about that CPU cooler but the user reviews seem quite positive.
 
are you OverClocking?
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Pioneer DVR-215BK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST3160815AS) £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £45.99
(£54.04) £45.99
(£54.04)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £129.99
(£152.74) £129.99
(£152.74)
OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent ATX2 Power Supply £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
Sub Total : £454.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £81.35
Total : £546.22

reduce cost by dropping
hdd and dvd drive if they are not needed
getting a 2x1GB pc2-6400 ram kit instead if 4GB is too much.
 
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jak731 said:
are you OverClocking?
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not the day it arrives, but it would be nice to be able to when the processor gets behind the times a little.

i am, however interested in sli, for long-term upgradability. The motherboard you mentioned only seems to support crossfire. Am i right in assuming this means that sli is not possible?

would you say that sli would be a bad idea in terms of value and cost of future upgrades?

is there a similar cheap sli motherboard?

thanks again

edit: just thought i'd mention that i havent chosen the psu for sli compatibility on purpose, to keep the cost down
 
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Crossfire and SLi are two competing technologies - there are some motherboards that can use 2xATI or 2xNvidia but it is very much a 'hack' and not always reliable so to all intents and purposes you pick one or the other.

ATI graphics cards will work fine on an Nvidia chipset based motherboard and vice versa but you can't double them up. Not that I view that as a major problem unless you have a huge monitor and lots of money but in that case you can afford to buy a suitable motherboard anyway. SLi/Crossfire generally doesn't offer great value for money since by the time you want to add a new graphics card there will be a new single graphics card offering the same sort of performance.
 
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