New Rig Advice!

Mista.Gee · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:13

I have £750 on me right now and i have the following components:

Hiper HPU-4B580 Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Blue.
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache.
Sony 1.44MB Floppy Drive - Silver.
Sony DWG120A 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - Silver.

I'm looking for a good processor, Top Motherboard, Good Memory, Graphics Card all for gaming.

Whats the best i can buy for £750.

Roughneck · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:57

geepee said:
I have £750 on me right now and i have the following components:

Hiper HPU-4B580 Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Blue.
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache.
Sony 1.44MB Floppy Drive - Silver.
Sony DWG120A 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - Silver.

I'm looking for a good processor, Top Motherboard, Good Memory, Graphics Card all for gaming.

Whats the best i can buy for £750.

wait until the intel conroes are out , you could pick up a nice 6600 and 2 gigs of ram and a mobo and still have a couple of hundred quid left

Mista.Gee · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:00

Well i actually want to buy today! i can't really wait until conroe gets released.

Roughneck · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:23

geepee said:
Well i actually want to buy today! i can't really wait until conroe gets released.

honestly Id wait , wish i had waited

Mista.Gee · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:26

Well i can't wait really i need a pc as my other is bust and i use it to run my business and play games.

hp7909 · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:27

I'd wait for Conroe. But, I know that money burning feeling so...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-166-AM) £181.95
Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS) £69.95
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 ZX PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBZX) (MY-011-GS) £149.95
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP) £221.95
Subtotal £623.80
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.25
VAT £110.61
Total £742.66

hp7909

Mista.Gee · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:44

What happens if i pre-order a conroe setup on overclockers do they take the cash straight away as i want a good setup there.

hp7909 · 30 Jun 2006 at 15:19

geepee said:
What happens if i pre-order a conroe setup on overclockers do they take the cash straight away as i want a good setup there.

I think they do, but wait for someone to confirm

If you can wait 3-days for Conroe compatible mobo to be available, then other option is this...

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP) £221.95
Intel DP965LT 965 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-011-IN) £74.95 - 1 to 3 days
Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN) £72.95
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 ZX PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBZX) (MY-011-GS) £149.95
Subtotal £519.80
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £92.54
Total £621.29

Then wait till Intel Core 2 Duo's available & sell the chip (805D)

Mista.Gee · 30 Jun 2006 at 15:31

I was actually thinking of this Intel Extreme D975bx-304 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-010-IN) and Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-108-CS).