Help with £800 pounds

ToLearn · 11 Feb 2006 at 21:59

Hi all
after recently upgrding my pc a good friend now whats to build his own

hes not a great gamer american conquest type games and online games

its need to include everything except for keyboard and mouse a 19 inch tft would also be nice

any help you could give would be much appricated ive tried myself but never seem happy with what i pick unless i spend over a grand

thank you

ToLearn · 11 Feb 2006 at 22:37

ahh forgot one thing bud wants nforce 4 board but doesnt matter about sli so much so ati is fine either way is the ati card you quoted much differance then a 6800 gs

ToLearn · 12 Feb 2006 at 01:57

CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) 1
£65.50 £65.50
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA) 1
£49.95 £49.95
CD-015-SO Sony DDU1613 DVD-ROM (Silver) - OEM (CD-015-SO) 1
£12.50 £12.50
CD-028-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-028-NE) 1
£28.70 £28.70
CP-150-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-121-AM) 1
£124.95 £124.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) 1
£61.95 £61.95
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL) 1
£54.95 £54.95
GX-055-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC) 1
£104.95 £104.95
Subtotal £503.45
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £89.85
Total £603.25

how does this look plus a monitor of course

ToLearn · 12 Feb 2006 at 11:59

has all i asked for but dont want to go the crossfire route as seen heard to many problems so want to go the tried and tested nforce4 motherboard but thx for help anyway the spec i did was around same price with same card and better cpu from what i can see

cheers for replys all helps to make chocies

ToLearn · 12 Feb 2006 at 12:18

confused as to why u said about 2 cards i never said 2 cards and have not put 2 cards in my spec bud just 1 ati card ?

ToLearn · 12 Feb 2006 at 12:28

ahhh sorry bud didnt mean to confuse people no only wanted 1 card just didnt really want to go for the crossfire route just a perosnale choice i did mention that further up the screen about not wanting sli or crossfire so got bit confused when 2 cards were mentioned myself my fault im not the best person at explaining myself

thx for your help much appricated

will be going for mostly your spec anyway bud but with a 3700sd