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[PureAppleJuice]

Hey there, I'm looking to build a new PC for around 800 - 950 probably around the beginning of September. This will replace an ageing Opteron 165, Nvidia 7900GT, 2gb DDR1 RAM & 19" ViewSonic VX924 setup.

What do you think about this rough spec? This comes to 870 ish.

Any comments/suggestions?

Smallish case is imperative really as i'm graduating in a year so can see myself likely moving around a lot and probably won't be upgrading/replacing this new rig anytime soon!

Cheers,

 

[PureAppleJuice]

How do you feel about matx? The only severe limitation with it these days is four expansion slots instead of 7. Gone are the days where they could only take one graphics card. It'll be smaller (which I think makes it inherently prettier), work exactly as well and be slightly more difficult to cool. Well worth a look

m-ATX could be cool - though from a quick scout around that format doesn't support AM3?

Is there another case (ATX) that might be smaller than the Lian Li you could recomend?

I must say I don't really know why i'm offering up a spec when I have no intention of buying for another 3 months! What sort of changes are coming in the way of CPUs/GPUs? A socket change at all? As you can tell i'm a bit out of date with hardware really.