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AMD Athlon 64 3700 Retail / Asus A8N-SLi Premium / 1GB GeIL CAS 2.5 PC3200 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle £272.42

XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition £176.19

LG GSA-4167BA 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige) - OEM £26.44

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB 6L080L0 ATA-133 2MB Cache - OEM (HD-032-MD) £28.50

£503.55

looks ok
erm you may disagree.
 
With everything & 2 gig ram thats probably your best bet ...
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM) £149.17

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE)
£36.37

OcUK Value 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-OK)
£105.69

Philips SPD2400GM 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige) - OEM (CD-007-PH)
£25.79

Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-041-GI)
£49.29

PowerColor ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-037-PC)
£152.69

£519 total inc VAT
 
Definately go sata, it's quicker and it's one less huge ide cable you need to hide.

Also, you could save some cash and go for the HIS X800 GTO @ £111 inc vat, this batch seems to come with the R480 core and is thus flashable to X850XT PE. Mine runs @ 600/615 quite comfortably. It also has a silent and efficient cooler. Lovely little card.
 
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Replace the Maxtor with a Samsung or Hitachi.. Maxtor have a VERY bad reputation these days. You won't need a cooler and as a result I'd go for a better motherboard, something around the £70 mark like the A8R-MVP Asus Crossfire board.

What PSU have you got? It must be ATX 2.0. NEC 4551's are our currently favour'd DVD-RW too.
 
The retail cpu comes with a decent cooler allready.
The Philips burner i also recently purchased & is very quiet.
I have had a couple recent Maxtor HDD's & not had problems, but have heard others say they have had some issues.
 
Ditch the Zalman cooler (use the perfectly good stock one) and put the extra dosh to getting a 7800GT instead of X850 - a vastly superior card to the X850XT both in performance and feature set.

Oh, and with the Antec P180 you need to make sure your power cables from the PSU will be long enough to reach the motherboard connectors.

Hav
 
Havana_UK said:
Ditch the Zalman cooler (use the perfectly good stock one) and put the extra dosh to getting a 7800GT instead of X850 - a vastly superior card to the X850XT both in performance and feature set.

Oh, and with the Antec P180 you need to make sure your power cables from the PSU will be long enough to reach the motherboard connectors.

Hav
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Umm that's a rather over the top statement.. the 7800GT is better than a X850 but NOT Vastly. Not just that but the X1800XL and X1800XT are both better choices than a 7800GT.
 
BigDom said:
Umm that's a rather over the top statement.. the 7800GT is better than a X850 but NOT Vastly. Not just that but the X1800XL and X1800XT are both better choices than a 7800GT.
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OK, maybe 'vastly' was OTT, but it's a much better card nonetheless.

7800GT is faster in terms of raw performance, and offers features that the X8xx does not (which are now more and more wide-spread).

Sure, X1800XT is faster than 7800GT but also more expensive, and we're pushing the budget already.

X1800XL is on par with 7800GT.

Hav
 
Havana_UK said:
OK, maybe 'vastly' was OTT, but it's a much better card nonetheless.

7800GT is faster in terms of raw performance, and offers features that the X8xx does not (which are now more and more wide-spread).

Sure, X1800XT is faster than 7800GT but also more expensive, and we're pushing the budget already.

X1800XL is on par with 7800GT.

Hav
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True about the budget although we're talking what £15 difference...

I'd like to know how the X1800GTO matches up at £144 is looks an interesting buy.. Seems on paper slower than an XL though :(
 
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