spec me an upgrade

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currently on :

opty 165 @ 2.7
corsair 2gb 2.5-2-2-6
7800gtx SLI
dfi expert

looking to go conroe, also maybe gonna shift to crossfire? i game in 1600x1200 and will be more when i get my dell monitor in future

looking to spend about £1000

what can u suggest for me

 

[semi-pro waster]

You don't say if you need everything or if you will be moving parts across so I've assumed for the moment that you need everything and will sell off your existing PC to fund the upgrade. Given the budget this is what I'd go for, it should overclock brilliantly and allows an easy upgrade to Crossfire if/when you require it.

Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-127-IN) £139.99
(£164.49) £139.99
(£164.49)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) £104.99
(£123.36) £104.99
(£123.36)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) £173.99
(£204.44) £173.99
(£204.44)
Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN) £89.99
(£105.74) £89.99
(£105.74)
NEC ND7173 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-047-NE) £19.95
(£23.44) £19.95
(£23.44)
Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case - No PSU (CA-027-AN) £28.99
(£34.06) £28.99
(£34.06)
ATI Radeon X1900 ***Crossfire Edition*** 512MB GDDR3 (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-045-CO) £214.99
(£252.61) £214.99
(£252.61)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR) £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620A ATA-100 16MB Cache (HD-087-SE) £46.95
(£55.17) £46.95
(£55.17)
Sub Total : £837.83
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 : £148.54
Total : £997.32

 

[[Death]]

nice spec, yea i will need most things, got case, keyb , mouse, got raptors here too, dvd drives etc and sound etc., but thats lookin nice, the e6400 clock well on ds4?

lookin for gfx , psu , mobo , chip , cooling , ram

i should have said at start, sorry

 

[semi-pro waster]

The 6400 does clock well on the DS4 and the motherboard supports Crossfire so I thought it would fit your requirements nicely. I'd probably just remove the components you don't need and then it comes in at somewhere under £900.

However if you do want to spend most of the £1,000 you could then go for a 6600 and the Asus P5W DH Deluxe. The 6600 is clocked a bit faster to begin with and has 4mb L2 cache rather than the 2mb of the 6300/6400 chips, percentage wise however it doesn't tend to overclock quite as far. It depends on what you value more as both chips should clock very well but the 6600 starts out with more cache, the way I tend to look at it is that I could always overclock a slower processor but I can't add more cache.

 

[[Death]]

ok decided to up my cash considering ive just got a nice bonus.

hows this look :

REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST REMOVE
GX-051-CO ATI Radeon X1950 XT-X ***Crossfire/Master Edition*** SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR4 (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-051-CO)
£274.99 £274.99
GX-060-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1950 XT-X ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR4 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-060-HT)
£254.99 £254.99
CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£195.99 £195.99
MB-152-AS Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£129.99 £129.99
MY-013-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) (MY-013-GS)
£174.99 £174.99
CA-029-EN Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGA1000EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU (CA-029-EN)
£174.99 £174.99
Subtotal £1,205.94
VAT £211.04
Total £1,416.98


either that or wait for dx 10?

 

[semi-pro waster]

All looks good to me, the Galaxy might be slightly overkill even for Crossfire but since you have the money I don't see any harm in it as generally with PSUs too much is way better than too little.