Please spec my New build for £1200

NiteSurfer

NiteSurfer

NiteSurfer

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Hi.

I've scrimped and scraped for over a year, and now i can finally afford to upgrade. My rig is rather dated now. Socket 939 2.4ghz x2 3800 Ati X850Agp etc...Monitor is only samsung Syncmaster 193V. 19" windows XP home

anyway. Here's an idea of what i would like and need it for:

Make my video authoring programs scream, Power Director 5, Ulead 8.
Run latest games.
Monitor preferably a dell 24" or 27" widescreen.
3x 500Gb Hd drives.
Already have two Pioneer dvd writers. 111d and 112d, so dont need optical drives.
As much Ram as possible.

Windows Vista needed

keyboard & mouse, maybe, I already have old Altec sub and speaker system.

This is going to be needed for Feb onwards, So if there's some hardware that will be coming out then that will supercede it now, I need to know that also.

Thanks, If anyone can help. And spend my hard earned wonga, lol
 
if you need to buy now, even though i know you dont
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK Value L2442W 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black £229.99
(£270.24) £229.99
(£270.24)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £204.99
(£240.86) £204.99
(£240.86)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £54.99
(£64.61) £164.97
(£193.83)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £72.99
(£85.76) £72.99
(£85.76)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU £66.99
(£78.71) £66.99
(£78.71)
Sub Total : £1,022.89
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £20.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £182.67
Total : £1,226.51

there are the 45nm penryn quads by intel, the 3870X2 graphics cards by ATi, the 9800 series by Nvidia all round the corner.
 
awesome, Thanks....

I was getting a migraine trying to work out Mobo & cpu combo..lol

Feb only 2 weeks away. So I need a good idea now anyway!. That monitor looks good, Everyone seems to go for dell, But that's likely to mess up my most important upgrades for my budget!.

I'm going to add these to my basket then have a fiddle around.

P.s the graphics card note says this. "This card is 275mm in length so make sure it fits in your case!"

So is that case going to be ok ?.
 
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Just bought the monitor and I have to say its amazing for the price. Its fugly case :-) but the image is great. As its half the price I am going to buy a second one and have them both on arms in a dual display - perfect!
 
im not entirely sure on the size of the case and if everything will fit, personally i would have gotten a corsair HX520W PSU and a seperate case, which in my choice would be a lian li v2000 to put the Pc in. this gives a very good PSU and a very large case, however your budget did not allow this.
 
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