No minimum budget. what would you buy?

[Wayn0r]

As title. Where i say no minimum. ideall no more than £2500

Im undecided about sli/crossfire.

So it would be nice to see peoples different specs

 

[marcus_667]

id say wait a couple of months get a conroe extreme edition and x1900 crossfire thats what ill be doing

 

[div0]

when you say "minimum" - i take it you mean "maximum"

 

[div0]

what would it be used for?

gaming i take it?

are you keeping any existing items? monitor?

what about o/s? and office? are those to be included?

 

[fenderbass86]

Conroe XE, X-fired X1900's, 2GB DDR2 @ 1000MHz, and the new Dell 2407 Monitor.

 

[Wayn0r]

got a 20.1" dell widescreen and yes for gaming.

 

[fenderbass86]

got a 20.1" dell widescreen and yes for gaming.

What's that screen size like? I'm trying to decide between a 19" or 20"/20.1" monitor. I'll only be using one gfx card and wanting max AA/AF.

 

[Wayn0r]

Its perfect. Lovely monitor, great picture quality and no ghosting at all

 

[BigDom]

Without waiting for conroe ( which giving the budget probably isn't bad advice ) I came up with the following, which will last a good time regardless of conroe . Put in everything, the OP can tweak slightly as needed.

((edit thread extended whilst sorting the spec - so monitor won't be needed ))

CP-169-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-169-AM)
£284.95 £284.95
MB-144-AS Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-144-AS)
£99.95 £99.95
MY-003-PA Patriot Low Latency 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (PDC22G5300LLK) (MY-003-PA)
£139.95 £139.95
GX-047-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO)
£234.95 £234.95
HD-002-HI Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A31636) (HD-002-HI)
£52.95 £52.95
CD-032-NE NEC ND4571 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-032-NE)
£24.95 £24.95
SC-034-CL Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - Retail (SC-034-CL)
£64.95 £64.95
CA-038-LL Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-038-LL)
£47.95 £47.95
CA-008-LL Lian Li C-01A Aluminium CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Bezel (Silver) (CA-008-LL)
£7.95 £7.95
CA-007-TG Tagan TG430-U15 430W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-007-TG)
£46.95 £46.95
FG-024-AK Akasa AK-183-L2B Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-024-AK)
£9.95 £19.90
MO-010-DE Dell Ultrasharp 2007FP 20.1" Performance LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey (MO-010-DE)
£359.95 £359.95
OS-002-MS Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (E85-04026) (OS-002-MS)
£79.95 £79.95
KB-014-SK Saitek PZ08AU Gamers LED Backlit Keyboard (KB-014-SK)
£24.95 £24.95
KB-060-LG Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (KB-060-LG)
£27.95 £27.95
SP-035-LG Logitech Z-5400 THX® Certified 5.1 310 Watts Speakers - Retail (SP-035-LG)
£112.95 £112.95
Subtotal £1,631.15
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £54.45
VAT £294.98
Total £1,980.58

 

[Stelly]

id say wait a couple of months get a conroe extreme edition and x1900 crossfire thats what ill be doing

I really couldnt of put it better myself

Stelly

 

[mightynimrod]

id say wait a couple of months get a conroe extreme edition and x1900 crossfire thats what ill be doing

No,no,no,no

Just get the regular Conroe, you wont really see much performance increase from the extreme edition once youve clocked it.

The extreme edition will shine with extreme cooling but probably wont really clock that much on air.

 

[Rick_Barnes]

you could go REALLY extreme just for the sake of it, and get 3 x 19" monitors, for surround gaming.

And maybe 2x 4G iRam drives in Raid for the fastest map loading, EVER!

 

[dual2max]

Tyan K8WE (Soon to be K9)
2 x Opteron 285
32GB DDR400
nVidia Quad SLI 2 x 7900GX2 overlocked
Creative X-Fi Pro sound processor
Ageia PhysX physics processor
SCSI 15K Raid 0
Raptor 150GB
Blu-Ray Multi Drives
Tagan 1.1KW PSU
Processors and GPU Fully liquid cooled
PhysX card will also be liquid cooled

and an Iiyama AQU5611D BK

 

[marcus_667]

No,no,no,no

Just get the regular Conroe, you wont really see much performance increase from the extreme edition once youve clocked it.

The extreme edition will shine with extreme cooling but probably wont really clock that much on air.

its what id do lol but u got to think the extremes will be like 3.6 or something wont they that should be more then enough see im all for overclocking but i think the connie is quite capable cpu as it it ocing it would be just to boost youre E-penis isnt it ? if so im up for it Lol i cant get an extreme now anyways but well see when july comes woooo

 

[BillytheImpaler]

No,no,no,no

Just get the regular Conroe, you wont really see much performance increase from the extreme edition once youve clocked it.

The extreme edition will shine with extreme cooling but probably wont really clock that much on air.

To me it seems like the best chip will be the E6600 at 2.40GHz with 4MB and a FSB of 1066MHz. Clock that bad boy up to XE range just like we overclockers reccomend the 4400+ instead of the 4800+ becasue overclocking can make up the difference and save a boat load full of money that can be recycled into other parts (graphics cards for most, more CPUs for me ).