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Hello
Current PC is an aging Gateway P3 500 - feel free, and guilt free, to giggle. OS is Windows 98 SE - there are no XP drivers for the Voodoo graphics card. I've not built a PC before but have given into, after a bit of head/heart battle, the wreckless side of me. Said I'd never do it but here I am. I'm not that much of a hardware guy - find it all a bit much. Too many "standards". I've installed disk drives and various expansion cards before now, so how much harder can it be
Budget is (top-end) £1600. Plan on building at the end of the month. I like my FPS games, though the last game I could play was RtCW - the aged graphics card doesn't cope with anything complicated like lighting
I've spent a fair bit of time researching and have arrived at the following:
I plan to add another disk drive later, and a soundcard. I can move the CD-RW and floppy disk drive from my current PC - saves buying them. I went for a large case because I hoped it would make the build easier - more room. Also looks nice. Memory is on the approved vendors list (1GB is but the 2GB is just 2x1GB). Manual for the motherboard recommends more than 500W power supply for an SLi system. AM2 as oppose to 939 due to the potential for upgrade in the future. I don't think I've missed anything and am fairly confident everything is compatible, but would be interested to hear comments and suggestions.

Current PC is an aging Gateway P3 500 - feel free, and guilt free, to giggle. OS is Windows 98 SE - there are no XP drivers for the Voodoo graphics card. I've not built a PC before but have given into, after a bit of head/heart battle, the wreckless side of me. Said I'd never do it but here I am. I'm not that much of a hardware guy - find it all a bit much. Too many "standards". I've installed disk drives and various expansion cards before now, so how much harder can it be

Budget is (top-end) £1600. Plan on building at the end of the month. I like my FPS games, though the last game I could play was RtCW - the aged graphics card doesn't cope with anything complicated like lighting

- Lian-Li PC V2000 Silver Aluminium Full-Tower
- Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
- Asus M2N32-SLi-DLX nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2)
- Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
- Asus GeForce 7900 GTX/2DHT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB ST3300622AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
I plan to add another disk drive later, and a soundcard. I can move the CD-RW and floppy disk drive from my current PC - saves buying them. I went for a large case because I hoped it would make the build easier - more room. Also looks nice. Memory is on the approved vendors list (1GB is but the 2GB is just 2x1GB). Manual for the motherboard recommends more than 500W power supply for an SLi system. AM2 as oppose to 939 due to the potential for upgrade in the future. I don't think I've missed anything and am fairly confident everything is compatible, but would be interested to hear comments and suggestions.