Spec me £700-£800

[owon]

Hi I need someone to spec me a gaming system i've already purchased the OC 7900gtx graphics card and have a moniter and cd/dvd rewriter I have a budget of £700-£800 left.

Thank you.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Welcome to the forums. This ought to be suitable and comes in under budget, since you already have the graphics card which is normally one of the most expensive components. With the spare cash you could get a nicer case, faster clocked Ram, larger hard drive or you could buy a more expensive motherboard but I don't think any of the changes you could make will significantly add to the performance of the system

MB-038-GI Gigabyte K8N Pro SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-038-GI)
£67.95 £67.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£104.95 £104.95
HD-048-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD)
£46.95 £46.95
CA-027-AN Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case - No PSU (CA-027-AN)
£27.95 £27.95
CA-008-TG Tagan TG530-U15 530W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-008-TG)
£61.95 £61.95
CP-127-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM)
£264.95 £264.95
Subtotal £574.70
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £102.32
Total £686.97

 

[Explicit]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-167-AM)
£234.94
MSI K9N Diamond nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-068-MS)
£164.44
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£135.07
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-078-SE) **this week only**
£70.44
FSP Sparkle FX600-GLN Epsilon 600W ATX2.0 PSU (CA-002-SK)
£82.19
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL)
£57.52

Total inc VAT: £744.60

 

[owon]

Thanks for the spec both look like great systems. Will I also need to buy a separate cpu fan or dose AMD supply this with there processor i've always used pentuim in the past.

 

[BigDom]

Thanks for the spec both look like great systems. Will I also need to buy a separate cpu fan or dose AMD supply this with there processor i've always used pentuim in the past.

Retail comes with a fan.
OEM comes without.


Incidently when it comes to dual core AMD's only go for 3800+ or 4400+ as both clock well and one is venice core the other sandiego ( well two of ) i.e. 512K Cache or 1mb cache. Going for anything else is IMO a waste of money, for instance getting 2.2 out of a 3800+ ( making it I THINK a 4200 ) is easy.

 

[Ender]

if i where you i would wait for am2 socket, only 4 days left or something like that? the nforce 590 gives big gains when paired with a 7900gtx - according to gibbo