Spec for a friend

ajm

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A friend of mine is wanting a new setup and wondered if you guys could help him out with a decent spec? I am not upto date with c2duo and ddr2.
He wants this spec to include...

6600 Core 2 Duo CPU
8800 nvidia card PCI-Express

2 gig mem
Decent PSU
Case
Motherboard (Will need to have at least 1 IDE port)
Sata hdd 200+

He has the monitor,keyboard,mouse,dvd/rw

His budget is £650 inc vat and del. I know it seems a little low and have told him,but can it be done?

ps. he won't be doing any overclocking.
 
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Possible :D :D

If he can push £30 overbudget then get a decent case ( Lian-Li PC-7 )
 
Thanks for that spec it looks great.The only problem he would have is that he would like the case to be a bit fancier as that is a low budget dull looking case.Any other suggetsions? i know it may go slightly over budget with this change.
 
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Ok thanks for the info on the cases that is sorted now.

@Gary

Thanks for that on the PSU he has decided to go for one of these.

He has now said to me that he would like a board that can do SLi also still needs to go with everthing else in this spec and needs at least 1 IDE port.Can anyone help out?

I said to him that with the video card he is getting then i don't think he would need SLi. Am i correct or wrong?
 
I can't see the need in SLi normally unless playing at very high resolutions (1600x1200 or above) as the 8800GTS is a very capable card and SLi just adds another layer of complexity.

If your friend really wants a motherboard capable of SLi and doesn't want to increase the budget much then the Asus P5N-E 650 SLi would be my suggestion, a very good solid motherboard. Only thing is that each PCI-E lane runs at 8x when used in SLi (but 16x for a single graphics card) although it makes minimal difference to performance. :)
 
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