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Budget - £2k, use - gaming/overclocking, whats required - whole system.

Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU £69.99 (£82.24)

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB24GB8500C5DC)

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939)

Samsung SH-S223F/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail

Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)

Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775)

Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 LGA775 'Wolfdale' "Overclocking E0 Stepping" 3.33GHz (1333FSB) - Retail

Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard (920-000375)

Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue 4000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail (RZ01-00170100-R3M1)

Razer Mantis Speed Mat Gaming Surface

Acoustic Energy Aego M 2.1 Speakers - White

Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Samsung SM-T220 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Rose Red

Sub Total : £1,373.84
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £28.49
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £245.41
Total : £1,647.74

This is a little under the £2k budget, what could the extra £350 be spent on? DDR3, better speakers, raptors, 2 g/cards.

Or the burning question, wait for the Nehalem?!?!?! as my mates not in a mega rush.

Cheers :D
 
any chance of fittin a 24" into the budget? Go on you know you want to :p plus if the 500gb hdd is for your os id go with the newer f1s either the 640gb or 320 as these are higher denesity platters and faster
 
Ok, monitor changed.

I've put a 640 F1 for games and pics and stuff and a 320 just for the OS and other progs like Word etc...

Never dealt with solid state drives before. Read that you can only write to them so many times then they stop working?

Is the motherboard ok, dunno what im choosing with those except the right socket and ddr2 ram?

Cheers for the input so far.

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Oh yea, with those changed its £1750, so there is room for another £250 spend.

Just one thing with the solid states, would that be for OS only? as write speeds are slow and you wouldnt want to be installing games on them all the time?
 
with that big a budget, I'd go for an X38 mobo for possible crossfire later on =]

I wouldn't bother with SSD, personally I'd go for RAID F1s though :D

maybe two 320s in RAID 0 and a 1tb backup drive?
 
I whakced on the most expensive DDR2 X38 mobo.

edit - is 750W psu enough power of is it worth getting a 1000w as theres enough in the budget?
 
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Hell yes get a SSD. Their write limits are absolutely massive - by the time you've managed to hit the limit, your computer will have long since become obsolete. They're worth it for the insane loading times - Vista boots to desktop within 10 seconds inlcuding bios loading with an SSD. IIRC there is a video on youtube.

If I was to build an entire computer for £2k...

http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z99/Huw_Dawson/?action=view&current=2ksystem.png

I'm not insane. :) That comes to £2030.

Of course, my PSU might not fit the correct power consumption opinions. If that's the case knock Vista down to Premium and get the next up in the range.

Be a git and install Crysis on the SSD. ;) Give us your FPS afterwards!

For the record, you were about to spend £1700 on a computer without a dedicated sound card. :p I always prefer headphones to 2.1 sound, as that minimizes the amount of annoyance you cause to those you love.

- Huw
 
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Ill stick with top end air cooling, that will see a good clock. Otherwoise ill have to drop spec to afford water cooling.
 
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