new tower (£1,300 max)

kidkhaos · 16 Dec 2006 at 12:51

Want a new tower with a max budget of £1,300. dont mind if i get it after chrimbo (so some components can be out of stock atm). Will be use for gaming. Also would be nice if it will be easy to upgrade to vista/dx10 with as few changes as possible.

This is what i got.....hopefully you guys will do a lot better:

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM £134.99

Enermax Galaxy 850W EGA850EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU £154.99

ATI Radeon X1950 XT-X SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR4 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £219.99

Gigabyte GA_965P_DQ6 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £121.99

Western Digital WDSC50RCW Secure Connect Serial ATA Cable £5.99

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £179.99

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £182.99

Thermaltake VA8003BWS Armour Super Tower - Black £89.99

Total inc del: £1,297.05

*EDIT* thinking of buying a BFG nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard and a new nvidia gfx card instead ...thoughts

Biohazard · 16 Dec 2006 at 13:00

Its not a tower, a tower is a case. A computer is a computer.

hk3948 · 16 Dec 2006 at 13:38

Biohazard said:
Its not a tower, a tower is a case. A computer is a computer.

feel better? :rolleyes:

thefishdude · 16 Dec 2006 at 14:34

Biohazard said:
Its not a tower, a tower is a case. A computer is a computer.

merry xmas to you too :rolleyes:

anyway i specced you a system, i kept the mobo you mentioned at the end as i assume there was something about that that you liked how ever it is expensive. the case i kept aswell as that is a personal choice and you like it.
the power supply i have changed if you are only going to have one gfx card then you dont need that kind of power supply. it would be better to get a new nvidia card like you said as that is dx10 compatible ready for new windows vista there will be new ati cards out for dx10 january some time i think the end the gtx card would be better but woud put you over *** top on the price, maybe if you saved some on the motherboard. also i changed to a 74raptor to use for windows and games and a seperate 250gb drive for storage. anyway hre it is

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£299.61)

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £84.99 (£99.86)

BFG nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £164.99
(£193.86)

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £184.99
(£217.36)

Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM £89.99
(£105.74)

Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £48.99
(£57.56)

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £182.99
(£215.01)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) £13.99
(£16.44)

Thermaltake VA8003BWS Armour Super Tower - Black £89.99
(£105.74)

Total : £1,326.41

kidkhaos · 16 Dec 2006 at 16:23

Biohazard said:
Its not a tower, a tower is a case. A computer is a computer.

OMG this has to be the most helpful post ever

Anyway, thanks for the build thefishdude, that's the one i more then likely go for. The PSU should be able to handle another GeForce 8800 GTS, should i choose to go sli in the future...shouldn't it?

Orison · 16 Dec 2006 at 17:01

kidkhaos said:
The PSU should be able to handle another GeForce 8800 GTS, should i choose to go sli in the future...shouldn't it?

IMPORTANT!!!

You CANNOT go SLI with GeForce 8800-series cards on a DQ6.

You can't do it with any Intel chipset based motherboard, in fact.

nVidia haven't emphasised this nearly as much as they should, but to run 8800-series cards in SLI, the motherboard MUST be able to run dual x16 PCI-E slots at their full x16 speed at native hardware level. The only boards that currently can do this are those based around nVidia's nForce 680i chipset. All the Intel chipset boards that boast two x16 PCI-E slots are only capable of running them in x8 mode in tandem, or sometimes with one at x16 and one at x4.

In any case, if you want to SLI your GeForce cards, then nVidia 680 is the only game in town. That limits you to the BFG mobo you mentioned, or the EVGA nForce 680 board, or the ASUS Striker Extreme.

You may well already know that, but I just wanted to make sure for your benefit

thefishdude · 16 Dec 2006 at 18:40

not sure if that power supply is enough for sli gts it could be im sure some one on here will be able to tell you though.

just checked on nvidia sli site and it said that the corsair 620 wont do sli gts's

Tony Williams · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:05

I'd drop that PSU and go for a lower one to save money. I don't think the Secure Connect things are really worth it for £5.

I don't see much point in SLi by the time you can afford another GFX card, you might be better off with a new card altogether.