Fun to Spec me out another gaming beast

Booner! · 5 Mar 2006 at 19:30

hey guys have been pondering the fact of moving to AMD from my beasty 478 intel system which has hit top of the line in its socket with components.

need spec drawn up for gaming purposes with something PCI -E higher than my previous card of 6800gt agp and maybe dual core? of either intel or amd you decide

i already have
koolance exos 2 water cooling
aeroengine 2 case ready
19inch viewsonic lcd
sata 80gb hd
IDE 160gb hd

so they dont need to be accounted for in pricing.

you have £1000 to spend on my new system....starting ...NOW! lol

Xionic · 5 Mar 2006 at 19:37

overclocking? if so the spec in my sig but take the HDD, CASE, HSF & PSU off and lower the gfx to a XT should take it down to about £1100-£1150 but well worth the extra. knocking the gfx down to a X1800XT should take it within the budget while still being a great gfx card

Booner! · 5 Mar 2006 at 20:28

im not looking to overclock straight away

Explicit · 5 Mar 2006 at 20:46

Since you have everything else, I presume the guts is what you need:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM)
£334.82
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£82.19
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£117.44
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3055) (GX-046-CO)
£381.82
Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-009-TG)
£91.49

Total inc VAT: £1007.76

BigDom · 5 Mar 2006 at 20:51

Kerching!!!

MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£99.95 £99.95
GX-060-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-060-PC)
£309.95 £309.95
CD-028-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-028-NE)
£27.95 £27.95
CP-127-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM)
£284.95 £284.95
Subtotal £792.75
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £140.30
Total £942.00

ACESHIGH · 5 Mar 2006 at 23:36

BigDom said:
Kerching!!!

MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£99.95 £99.95
GX-060-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-060-PC)
£309.95 £309.95
CD-028-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-028-NE)
£27.95 £27.95
CP-127-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM)
£284.95 £284.95
Subtotal £792.75
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £140.30
Total £942.00

Thats what i would get in that price range.