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Hi everyone, I havent posted here in a loong time! I recognise a few faces around here at least 
I pop back occasionally to try and keep up with the latest developments and to read all the excellent info here. Alas I am a student now and don't really spend much time playing with my pc setup, mainly cos I am always skint 
I have been asked by my brother to build him a new gaming rig. He is a WOW addict like me and spends a lot of time playing games (Wow, BF2, DOD source). His budget is £800. This is what I am considering atm:
Thermaltake VB1000BWS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - £42.95 (does this come with psu, is it up to the job?)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM - £99.95
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler - £15.95
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire (Socket 939) - £109.95
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI(PCI-Express) - Retail £209.95
Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU - £61.95
G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit - £129.95
Inc. VAT = £805.58 + shipping (oops £5.58 over
)
He already has a Panel, DVD writer and some reasonable storage so that isn't included.
I included a crossfire board so that he has an upgrade option in the future. He doesn't plan to use this currently. I was tempted to go with the A8R-MVP because it's £70 cheaper. I originaly specced it with an X1900XT but after reading some bad comments about the board I had a rethink and decided to go with a slightly cheaper card and spend the extra on an A8R32 and some G.Skill. I think this should give some nice stable overclocks (my bro isn't too pc savvy and I am at uni most of the time so it needs to be rock stable.) You may say just don't overclock it, but where's the fun in that?
Over to you guys. What do you think?
I pop back occasionally to try and keep up with the latest developments and to read all the excellent info here. Alas I am a student now and don't really spend much time playing with my pc setup, mainly cos I am always skint I have been asked by my brother to build him a new gaming rig. He is a WOW addict like me and spends a lot of time playing games (Wow, BF2, DOD source). His budget is £800. This is what I am considering atm:
Thermaltake VB1000BWS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - £42.95 (does this come with psu, is it up to the job?)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM - £99.95
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler - £15.95
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire (Socket 939) - £109.95
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI(PCI-Express) - Retail £209.95
Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU - £61.95
G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit - £129.95
Inc. VAT = £805.58 + shipping (oops £5.58 over
)He already has a Panel, DVD writer and some reasonable storage so that isn't included.
I included a crossfire board so that he has an upgrade option in the future. He doesn't plan to use this currently. I was tempted to go with the A8R-MVP because it's £70 cheaper. I originaly specced it with an X1900XT but after reading some bad comments about the board I had a rethink and decided to go with a slightly cheaper card and spend the extra on an A8R32 and some G.Skill. I think this should give some nice stable overclocks (my bro isn't too pc savvy and I am at uni most of the time so it needs to be rock stable.) You may say just don't overclock it, but where's the fun in that?
Over to you guys. What do you think?
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They are nice cases inded!