New Build £600

[crazymofo16321]

Building a new machine so me and my gf can play together - She's taking my old PC obviously. - Still a beast tho.

Anyway, with £600 minus monitor/speakers I should hope for Top of the line performance. So i'm thinking:

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
HP dvd1070 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM HP dvd1070 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.99
(£18.79) £15.99
(£18.79)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £114.99
(£135.11) £114.99
(£135.11)
Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU £71.99
(£84.59) £71.99
(£84.59)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS) Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS) £51.99
(£61.09) £51.99
(£61.09)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Gainward GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail Gainward GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £164.99
(£193.86) £164.99
(£193.86)
Sub Total : £520.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £93.43
Total : £627.30

What do you think? - I'm keeping it XP for now, will buy another couple of gigs of ram later and vista. I have coolers already to clock the 6600 with.

I also went for the cheaper mobo, i already have this board and i found it great.

How will this compare to my old:
8800gts 512
e6550 @ 2.7ghz
2gb

What does everyone think? Any amendments?

Cheers!

Dan

 

[crazymofo16321]

Sorry for the double post, but if i could get some advice it t'would be great!

Did I mention that this is going to be a pure gaming PC...

Thanks!

 

[PhoenixUK]

Looks fine,
Grab something from e8xxx series instead of quad if you want it for gaming,
not sure about this ram, i've got geil black dragon and it's best memory i've ever had so you can consider taking it. Got the same mobo as you and its fine so i guess its ok too.
And I would get thermaltake toughpower or corsair PSU. I'll grab spinpoint over seagat as well.

You can consider taking some good case if you want to OC it and put some good cooling there.