Going for it!

Rapid-D

Rapid-D

Rapid-D

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Hi all.

Just decided to go for it and get myself a new machine.


My current specs are
Asus A8V Motherboard (AGP)
Nvidia 6600LE
400W PSU
Maxtor 250GB (PATA)
DVD RW
Floppy Disk Drive
AMD Athlon 3700+


And heres what I've gone for after browsing at these forums for a while.

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £48.99
(£57.56) £48.99
(£57.56)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £105.99
(£124.54) £105.99
(£124.54)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB) £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)

Sub Total : £504.94
Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £90.11
Total : £605.00

Will these work together nicely? are there better alternatives? I'm looking for the best price and peformance. Is there anything else I need to add?

[Budget is around £850]

I have not entered a graphic card yet as I'm still generally undecided in which to get.
The 8800GTS looks nice and I can afford it, but the price seems too high compared to some of the Ati cards which are cheap, and way better than what I have already anyway. The Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 XT is only about £160 would that be a better option? will it also last me a long time?
My resolution is 1680x1050 so I'm still unsure.

Any help appreciated!
 
Get the OEM version of the CPU and get a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro as your cooler. You'll like a lot. :)

The best deal at the moment in the GPU market is the ATi X1900 Pro. If I were buying now I'd get that now and take the rest of the difference between that and the 8800 and save it for a DX10 upgrade late next year when there are more cards out and choices are better.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Get the OEM version of the CPU and get a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro as your cooler. You'll like a lot. :)

The best deal at the moment in the GPU market is the ATi X1900 Pro. If I were buying now I'd get that now and take the rest of the difference between that and the 8800 and save it for a DX10 upgrade late next year when there are more cards out and choices are better.
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Thats what I was thinking. I dont like going for the best as they are always overpriced for tech heads. I'll go with your advice and get the X1900 Pro then sell it later for a mid range dx10 card when dx10 games start to appear.

Any other suggestions would be great.
 
Nope, it's looking good to me. You'll love the case and PSU. I'd personally go with the Seagate 7200.10 320 GiB hard disk but that's just because I have one and like it so much. ;) You'll get similar performance out of either I reckon.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Nope, it's looking good to me. You'll love the case and PSU. I'd personally go with the Seagate 7200.10 320 GiB hard disk but that's just because I have one and like it so much. ;) You'll get similar performance out of either I reckon.
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Definately the 7200.10, great drive :)
 
Thanks for the help guys.

Last few questions:

For the graphics card, should I generally go for the 512mb or the 256mb?

Final one. Would the 520W psu power a 8800GTS just fine when I come to buy one?

Thanks again Happy New Year all :).
 
I think that you'll see similar performance from either RAM configuration. 512 MiB is a little more future proof so if the price is right I'd go for that. Think 5 to 10% better performance so I'd be willing to pay 5 to 10% more for it.
 
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