New System

[Whitter]

Hi Guys

Wondering if you can help me here. I'm looking to upgrade my system next year or maybe this year if the price is right

But it has been awhile since my last upgrade which means I am stuck with AGP graphics, IDE Hard Drives, DDR memory and what all this Dual core 64 bit nonsense

Anyway, you guys help loads with my last build (ABiit NF7-2 with a overlocked 1GHz AMD mobile)

So what I'm looking is:
NVIDIA 8800 GTX
A motherboard with one IDE port for my two DVD drives and at least 2 PCI slots for my X-Fi and an IDE controller card (for my current harddrives), with enough left over space to possibly go SLi at a future date.
And a CPU and RAM that will not bottleneck the system
And power supply for the new graphics card (thats easy enough to pick really)

I'm aiming for around £1,000 mark

Cheers

 

[Whitter]

Nice, totally with the fact that them Intel chips can be pushed so much.

Dont think I'll need the case still got my Antec P180 that I got the other year was really impressed with that as well. Or the hard drive, my plan was to jump over to SATA when I make the move to Vista latter next year.

My budget was not set in stone, just seemed like a nice starting number Dont mind being £200-300 over.

I'm planning on selling off some bits and bobs as well, so hopefully that will cover some of the cost.

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£109.99
(£129.24)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£87.99
(£103.39)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
£169.99
(£199.74)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
£13.99
(£16.44)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
£74.99
(£88.11)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£414.99
(£487.61)

Sub Total : £871.94
Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £154.33
Total : £1,036.22

 

[Whitter]

Dont you just hate build a new systems. Compatability is always a thing that scares me (not that I have been hit with the problem that often) but when you have been out of the new hardware loop for awhile it is a worry.

The case should be fine as I don't use the top chamber for my hard drives, so if it dont fit with the holder in I'll just take it out.

With you on the SLi point though. Never see the point of having enough power to do uber over the top FPS.

I going to poke around abit and see if I can shave some pennys off in a few places.