Spec me something for a grand

EirePlane

EirePlane

EirePlane

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Looking to spend about a grand on a new system in a couple of months.

I would find one myself but i'm worried about the compatibility and other issues.

I would ideally like a quad core system and a decent graphics card capable of running dual monitors. SLI would be nice but it's not essential

I already have all the peripherals I need but if you think I would get away with buying 2 screens and still have a decent rig for the budget, chuck them in too.

Cheers,
can't wait to see what you come up with
 
There isn't a huge amount of point in doing this until you are within the week of buying due to the deals changing but since I had a system almost pre-selected I've added a monitor and you are still a bit under budget.

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK) (Deal Product) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Asus P5K-E WiFi Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £88.99
(£104.56) £88.99
(£104.56)
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black) £73.99
(£86.94) £73.99
(£86.94)
Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7200S 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £159.99
(£187.99) £159.99
(£187.99)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3200AAKS) £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
Samsung SM-2032BW Pebble 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £137.99
(£162.14) £137.99
(£162.14)
Sub Total : £812.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £20.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £145.92
Total : £979.77
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Will you be overclocking?
Click to expand...

I'm considering it. nothing huge but I might a little if I'm confident enough with it.

Cheers, semi-pro. Great setup. Only thing I might be tempted to change is the HDD to a 500GB one since I play with different Linux distros and videos quite a bit.

There's another Western Digital one i've seen on here which will bring me to 992.70.
leaves enough out of the grand to buy myself lunch. Or I could throw in a few more quid for a copy of vista

Cheers
 
Good plan on the larger hard drive, I would have changed it myself but I was being too lazy when I realised that what I had in the basket got me to within £25 of the grand anyway. :)

You could overclock that PC fairly easily or at least the components give you about as good a chance as any in the budget.
 
cheers again.
If the prices are diff at the time I order, I can always swap something out and something else in anyway. Good setup though
I look forward to ordering it
 
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