Spec me please!! need some help.

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Ok hear me out, totally lost on comp bits and what goes with what nowadays, need a helping hand,

This is what i got.

Amd Newcastle 3500 skt939
Abit Av8 3rd eye
Tagen 480w psu
2x 512mb crucial ballistix
6800gt 256 galaxy gfx.
75gig Raptor
250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16
case is a Antec black piano case

I will also have about £800 plus what ever i can get for the bits ill be getting rid of above what ever that will work out at im guessing around £1000 mark? maybe more maybe less i havnt got a clue.

What i want is the best gaming system with some overclocking in mind i want the best bang for buck components that will overclock and last for a very long time to come this upgrade has gotta last.

my monitor is a Samsung 930bf with a native res of 1280x1024 but i dont mind going over board with the graphics i want all the eye candy i can get in game :D

So what will i be able to get with my £1000??

cheers for help :)


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Had a little look myself, put this together


BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £254.99(£299.61)
EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-ExpressDDR2Motherboard£179.99(£211.49)
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler (478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA755) £32.99(£38.76)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £137.99(£162.14)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
£177.99(£209.14)

Sub Total : £783.95
Shipping : £8.95
Vat : £138.76
Total : £931.66

Now would this all go together with my HDD's and tagen 480w psu? also would it fit into my antec black piano case? Dont forget i want to overclock the pants off it so if the psu isnt up to it what would you recommend?

tia :)
 
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

Fill in your planned overclock along with all fans etc... on that page and see how many true watts you'll need...
Personally i wouldn't buy a new psu even if the site would give me more as 480 watts, i'd just keep my old, use it, keep using it if its stable and only buy a new psu when pc is unstable...

Worst that can happen is a bsod,freeze or reboot under stress when having a poor psu ( i know from experiance, having owned a generic 300 watts psu and a q-tec after that )
 
Unless i done something wrong that site recommends a 682w psu! i did have to put the gfx down as a 8800gtx as a gts wasnt listed. so what ya think? get a new psu and what one?
 
=GAMMO= said:
Unless i done something wrong that site recommends a 682w psu! i did have to put the gfx down as a 8800gtx as a gts wasnt listed. so what ya think? get a new psu and what one?
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odd, i got 441 watts on your specs without fans etcetc just with mobo,ram,cpu,gpu and 2 hdds on a huge overclock ( 3.8 ghz) ( with cpu on stock 380ish watts came out)


I'd say keep the psu, unless you have like more than 4 fans, and an overclock of over 3.8 ghz or something, 480 watts is enough...

You can always buy a new psu if your old isn't good enough... ( what im saying is try it on your old psu 1st, you can always buy a new psu, but selling your new if it later appears your old was good enough, is another matter... )
 
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Right ill be getting this lot just after crimbo just in the new year :) is there anything coming out in the short time scale that would be worth waiting for to come out about before my decision is final?
 
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