Spec me up please. £500 ish for M/B Processor, Memory, GPU

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 15:21

I was thinking of these:
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard £59.95
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 £89.95
OcUK GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £159.95
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM £144.95

What do you think?

Its my PC, mainly for games, although some VB programming and essay writing may be done!

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 16:24

Would it be worth the extra money to get the SLI version of this board?

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:39

Question about xp64 x2
On the amd website it lists the 3800 x2 as clocking at 2ghz, is that 2ghz each core, or a total of both cores

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:42

so its a combined total of 4ghz then, the amd website didn't clear that very well.
and in that case is it worth spending the extra for the x2 edition

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:46

sorry if my above question sounds dumb i've become a bit out of touch with processors

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:57

I think i settled on this:
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) £70.44
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) £193.82
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO) £229.07
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) £111.57
TOTAL inc VAT £604.89

What people think?

djhipflask · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:04

already got a Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu cooler which according to Zalman website will work with the above cpu