New spec for £1500

[tfj]

Hi, I'm in the market for a new PC and would like any suggestions on spec for a £1500 machine. The PC needs have maximum gaming performance, dual digital terrestrial tv card, ms vista ultimate with mce and a motherboard that supports both the R600 when it arrives and an Intel quad core. I'm happy if it doesn't have the quad core CPU at this stage if that money is better spent elsewhere in the system.

As I'm new to all of this, any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[semi-pro waster]

Do you need monitor, keyboard, mouse or any other peripherals? If not this may be suitable, it is currently under budget so could be altered in a few areas but I probably wouldn't advise you to get quad-core just yet as it isn't utilised fully by much at all. Oh and I know nothing about TV Tuner cards so it is just one with dual tuners.

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)
Samsung SH-W183 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £151.99
(£178.59) £151.99
(£178.59)
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Soundcard - OEM £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66R-00838) £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Silver) £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £51.99
(£61.09) £51.99
(£61.09)
Asus GeForce 8800 GTX HTDP 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £324.99
(£381.86) £324.99
(£381.86)
Team Xtreem 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXDD2048M800HC4DC) £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)
Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT DVB-T TV Tuner (PCI-Express) - Retail £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
Sub Total : £1,176.88
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £24.95
Vat : £210.32
Total : £1,412.15

 

[tfj]

Excellent! I thought that may be the case regarding the quad board. And no, I don't need a monitor/keyboard/mouse. Thanks very much. If I was to spend any more, which components do you think would be best to upgrade?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Probably a second hard drive or perhaps a different case as although it fits the 8800GTX you have to move one of the drive bays, maybe some different Ram but from the little I know of Ram it uses good chips.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I went and sort of an ultimate spec. It has a top-end motherboard, 8800GTXes in SLi, and the same TV tuner Mr. Waster spec'd because I, too, know nothing of TV cards.

It's overbudget but is a killer spec. If you want to bring it under budget, cut it down to 1 GPU. I chose that case because I'm not fond of the P180, the Akasa Eclipse 62 doesn't come with fans, and the Antec 900 is far too tacky. Change it to suit your tastes.