Help Spending £1,000 on upgrades

LiE · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:26

Basically got £1,000 to spend on some new PC components, I have a case, HDD and PSU. So what I need is Graphics Card, CPU, Heatsink, RAM, Soundcard and Mobo. Going to be used for Multimedia and Heavy Gaming. Cheers guys!

stickroad · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:31

Any overclocking?

What type of PSU do you have?

What sort of case have you got?

IDE or SATA Hard Drives?

What res will you be gaming at?

LiE · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:35

Case is Thermaltake VA9003SWA Kandalf Aluminium Full Tower - Silver
I have IDE and Sata HDD.
I plan to do some mild overclocking.
Gaming at 1920 x 1200 resolution.
PSU is Cooler Master 550W "Real Power" Power Supply

Alex UK · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:37

If you can hold off until the 22nd then you could get this...

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£111.61) £94.99

OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2
(£199.74) £169.99

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £314.99
(£370.11) £314.99

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (Socket AM2/LGA775) Heatsink
(£37.59) £31.99

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
(£49.34) £41.99

Noctua NF-S12 800RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin
(£14.09) £11.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
(£199.74) £169.99

Sub Total : £835.93
Shipping : £8.95
VAT : £147.85
Total : £992.73

stickroad · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:38

The above spec looks good, how ever to use all 4GB of memory you will need a 64bit O/S.

LiE · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:40

In that spec, what is getting released on the 22nd?

Greenlizard0 · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:42

msm722 said:
In that spec, what is getting released on the 22nd?

I think that some of Intel's CPU's are going to be slashed.

LiE · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:43

Excellent, any other specifications that can improve on Alex's?

stickroad · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:50

msm722 said:
Excellent, any other specifications that can improve on Alex's?

Nope looks good, but like i said you will need a 64bit O/S to use all of that 4GB of Memory.

Also your PSU, not sure how solid it is as in the rails?

Bailey_sufc · 15 Jul 2007 at 21:52

msm722 said:
In that spec, what is getting released on the 22nd?

intel are making price cuts aparently

Alex UK · 15 Jul 2007 at 22:01

I just checked out the PSU specification, I'm not an expert when it comes to this so not sure whether this looks good...

Enough to power an 8800GTX and E6850?

Tyron · 16 Jul 2007 at 13:58

Hi all, thanks for the replies. my friend msm722 made the thread on my request.

A few points though;

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - doesn't have a firewire port will that be a problem? Also it is good for everclocking?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - that is better then Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)? From the reviews I have read you can really overclock this up to 3.4ghz.

Going from Alex U
k's post i suspect the psu might not be powerful enough to handle the rig, any suggestions?

And finally, the price cuts are only on the cpus or on all the products?

Cheers

Tyron · 16 Jul 2007 at 14:54

Anyone for the power supply? Then I can order these parts.

Cheers.