Looking to build a new tower

[Odin]

I have around 1400 pounds that im looking to spend on a new rig. (Tower with components only). I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on what they would recommended purchasing for this amount of money. As I am not too sure what hardware combines well. Btw please take into account that as I live in Gibraltar I do not pay VAT.

I am looking to buy conroe processor. Not sure what else to get with this.
Would appreciate any help.

 

[Odin]

anyone ???

 

[Steve09]

How about to save yourself the hassell of buying all your components, worrying if they get damaged in transit and the frustration of putting it all together...

You give me £1000

You can have my PC, this way we both are winners, you get your PC, save your self £400 and I get enough money to fund myself at University

Steve

 

[Goodeh]

GX-053-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT) 1
£193.99 £193.99
HD-015-WD Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-015-WD) 1
£87.95 £87.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA) 1
£42.95 £42.95
MB-062-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) 1
£104.99 £104.99
HS-003-SY Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY) 1
£27.95 £27.95
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) 1
£139.99 £139.99
CD-035-NE NEC ND3550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-035-NE) 1
£19.95 £19.95
CA-013-TG Tagan TG600-U25 600W ATX2.0 Dual Engine Silent SLi Compliant Silent PSU (CA-013-TG) 1
£81.99 £81.99
SC-043-CL Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM (SC-043-CL) 1
£49.50 £49.50
CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN) 1
£199.99 £199.99
CA-069-LL Lian-Li PC-S80B Black Aluminium Full Tower Case (CA-069-LL) 1
£148.95 £148.95
Subtotal £1,098.20
VAT £192.19
Total £1,290.39

300 pounds under budget, I was tempted to add water, but I couldn't see the cost/benefit.

 

[Odin]

I dont mind spending right up to the exact penny ^^ Sorry I also forgot to mention I was looking to have 2 hard disks running on raid.

 

[Goodeh]

I dont mind spending right up to the exact penny ^^ Sorry I also forgot to mention I was looking to have 2 hard disks running on raid.

GX-053-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT) 1
£193.99 £193.99
HD-015-WD Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-015-WD) 1
£87.95 £87.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA) 3
£42.95 £128.85
MB-062-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) 1
£104.99 £104.99
HS-003-SY Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY) 1
£27.95 £27.95
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) 1
£139.99 £139.99
CD-035-NE NEC ND3550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-035-NE) 1
£19.95 £19.95
CA-013-TG Tagan TG600-U25 600W ATX2.0 Dual Engine Silent SLi Compliant Silent PSU (CA-013-TG) 1
£81.99 £81.99
SC-043-CL Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM (SC-043-CL) 1
£49.50 £49.50
CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN) 1
£199.99 £199.99
CA-069-LL Lian-Li PC-S80B Black Aluminium Full Tower Case (CA-069-LL) 1
£148.95 £148.95
Subtotal £1,184.10
VAT £207.22
Total £1,391.32
That offers you over 800 gb storage, I'd reccomend raid 5