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AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) £101.95
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard £74.95
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 £109.95
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) £144.95
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) £14.95
Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Red UV£59.95

Subtotal £506.70
VAT £88.68
Total £595.38

Not sure about the graphics card or CPU, but how long would this system last me in terms of years?

Primary use would be gaming and web browsing bit of work etc.

Thanks
 
Im finding it too hard to wait! I probably cant afford conroe as it is. Would it play most games high?
EDIT: i forgot to mention i was thinking about a 3800 venice as well, is that worse or better than the 3700sd?
 
King_Boru said:
To be fair I think you will be better off getting the Pentium IV 805 Dual Core CPU and overclocking it. As games are starting to take advantage of Dual Core technology.

Just my 2 cents.
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I was thinking about that as well a few weeks ago, but now i have ruled it out due to the temps of the chips, the power they consume and the price of the motherboards and DDR2.

I have heard many people say "new games will start to utilise dual cores", what would this mean for people with single cores? Would it just mean they wouldn't run the game very well?
 
SiriusB said:
I think you have the wrong end of the stick with Dual Core... First of all the temps aren't a problem. My X2 4400+ is running full wack [F@H both cores] and its sat at a nice 45C.

They will always of course draw a bit more power, but I do not believe it to be that significant. Pricing for DC is great and stands to get even better. You don't require DDR2 RAM either.

Games with Dual Core optimisations shouldn't run badly on single core chips at all. Developers will just write the game so that it takes advantage of both cores. If only one is present - nevermind.

Eventually the vast majority of CPUs are going to be dual core anyway but thats not going to happen overnight. Single core aint quite dead yet.

SiriusB
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I'm not talking about AMD dual cores, im talking about Intel dual cores(the 805D, to be specific) which runs very hot and uses a crapload of power.

It will be intresting to see how much prices come down though..
 
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