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ok know it alls... advice needed on new build

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well I have sold my house and in a few weeks time will have a few k in the bank so want to build a new pc, I have done the spec me a pc lark but tbh as its going to be in 4 weeks time or so I have been changing my mind more than my undies :D

main advice I want is that I am goint to mostly play games and race sims so fancied buying a 32" lcd and having it as a multimedia machine, plus get some kick ass speakers and use as a sound system aswell (depending on neighbours in new house lmao)

so would you go amd or c2d, how much ram, vista or xp and ati or nvidia... its a bloody nightmare

also would a sff be better for discreteness or a midi tower?

I know its not exactly straight forward but... I wont be overclocking at all and want to get best bang for buck

no specific budget but really dont want to spend over 1k if I do and am aware of impending price cuts so will wait till after them (am a northerner so tight as a gnats chuff)

no fanboy advice please, just price to performance with plenty of futureproofing if thats possible

cheers
 
yeah ;)

nah split with ex so gonna rent and get back into gaming, got rid of old pc for laptopbut miss having a pc
 
Completely ott but thats a cool sig deleted...

Back on topic... if your not overclocking then E6600 + 640Mb GTS (not much point getting a GTX imo without a 3gig conroe to really push it) - but if your running a 30" panel* you really should be looking at a 3+gig conroe (so overclocking an E6600 to 3gig which is easy and 99% safe) and atleast an 8800 GTX - if your running a really high res you might want GTX SLI but it would whack your budget alone...

*if your talking about a 32" HD TV then its only going to do 1280x720 (or 1366x768 or something) so you wouldn't need such a high spec...
 
But hes running a 30" lcd tv. Tvs have much lower res that pc monitors of the same size.
Edit: you spotted it any way.
 
Yeah was a DOH! moment - I had mentally thought 30" (thats a nice dell) then I noticed re-reading 32"... prolly get away with an E6320 and a 7900 series card at that res... tho a 640Mb 8800 would give a better degree of future proofing...
 
If your gaming and with current RAM prices I'd say 2gig - it doesn't need to be high performance stuff even most value RAM would NOT hold back a conroe for gaming use... if you want to go vista then you can throw 4gigs in it at current prices and give yourself some future proofing - but you'd have to research the motherboard then as some don't work too well with 4gigs.
 
well the idea is to use 32" lcd as tv (with sky+ or V+) and for playing race sims and so forth... g25 also in budget for that :P , will get a standard monitor for fps's as and when theres one I really want, as it stands my laptop is fine for browsing and cs/cs:s so thats covered anyway

thanks for advice so far, I could go SLI but not sure how to set it up, pro's and cons etc

decisions decisions.... glad I got a few weeks to make my mind up
 
Don't go SLI, just get an 8800GTS 640. Definitely get a C2D. Not sure when the price cuts are happening, but the quad core q6600 (I think) is going to be seriously cheap by the looks of things.

If you're going to get a monitor for FPS games, then why not get a tower instead of a SFF, and have the PC where the monitor is. Just run a VGA cable to the LCD TV. This is what I do - I have a 10m VGA cable going around the room to my 46" Samsung LCD. Looks fantastic with CM DiRT and Tomb Raider :D
 
Can't say I'd bother with SLI... I only did it with the 7950GX2 as my motherboard only supported crossfire, the 8800 was still months away and a single 7900 wasn't upto what I needed.
 
10m vga cable.... didnt know they came that long lol

that deffo sounds best option, can go on pc and still have tele on ;)

after reading other posts regrads cars/monitors I am right in assuming aGTX would be overkill as I am only gonna get a 20" lcd for pc, one side note tho is it better to get a widescreen or standard monitor?

specs so far are looking like this...

c2d 6600
dunno about motherboard as thats a diff minefield lol
4gb ram
8800gts 640mb
250gb sata (dont need a huge drive as gonna get a network drive for media storage)
dvdr/w
600 watt psu (will decide based on price at the time of ordering)
case prob gonna be a soprano or similar
xfi gamer or similar sound card
20" lcd
 
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