Spec ME! £1300

[Atomic]

Spec me a full computer setup without a monitor without the below parts as I will use parts from exisiting computer:
- Monitor
- Optical Drive
-Sata 1 Seagate barracuda 20GB HDD that I want as a 3rd HDD for pagefile thingy and general backups.
-Netgear WG311V3
- Keyboard & Mouse

Everything else needs to be speced and I want to try and get at least 3.5GHZ on a cpu overclocked, and must be a games machine with Vista and 4GB RAM, 2 hard drives (raid).

 

[DoomWolf]

The machine in my sig (minus the monitor) cost me £1300 (give or take a pound) when I built it 3 weeks ago. You'd probably need to change a couple of things to get 4Gb and Vista into the price, although some parts such as memory and CPU have probably come down a few quid since I bought them earlier this month.

 

[semi-pro waster]

This is a fair bit under the budget but I think I have included everything you require.

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £63.99
(£75.19) £63.99
(£75.19)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £46.99
(£55.21) £93.98
(£110.42)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99
(£152.74) £129.99
(£152.74)
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £179.99
(£211.49) £179.99
(£211.49)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £314.99
(£370.11) £314.99
(£370.11)
Sub Total : £1,023.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £181.10
Total : £1,215.95

 

[stickroad]

Just slightly under Budget:

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache X2

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black

Total : £1,285.26

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Just for kicks I knocked up a quad core spec for your perusal:

 

[matthew2456]

Just for kicks I knocked up a quad core spec for your perusal:

nice

 

[snazzy_dazzy]

I would go with billytheimpalers suggestion. Looks brillaint

 

[semi-pro waster]

Just for kicks I knocked up a quad core spec for your perusal:

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/8353/screenshotqo2.png[IMG][/QUOTE]

If you drop the soundcard you are easily in budget, however I'm not sure if 3.5ghz is totally realistic unless the Kentsfield quad cores are unlocked? Although as is well known, clock speed isn't everything so it looks good. :)

 

[BillytheImpaler]

If you drop the soundcard you are easily in budget, however I'm not sure if 3.5ghz is totally realistic unless the Kentsfield quad cores are unlocked? Although as is well known, clock speed isn't everything so it looks good.

They are not unlocked. I reckon it won't get to 3.5 GHz as it's a multiplier of 8 meaning that for 3500 MHz you'd need a FSB of 438 MHz. Intel C2Qs , so I hear, don't like high FSB overclocking. However, with more cores and the coming advent of multithreaded gaming applications, I figure this'd be quicker in the long run when compared to the E6600.

...That and I really just did the spec for fun.

EDIT: Not that it can't overclock that high: http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/1588/x3210cpuzocav3.jpg

I won't link to the blog I got that screenie from but it's the first Google result for "X3210 overclocking"

 

[semi-pro waster]

Found the site (3rd on Google UK, none of this American malarky ) and that is quite impressive, requires a bit of fiddling but still mighty good for a 'cheap' quad core on air cooling.