Spec my buddy for £550

Naffa · 8 Feb 2006 at 12:24

he is a games reviewer and has £550 to buy a new cpu, graphics card, mother board and memory. hes said that he wants a 3700 and a 7800gt but if he could get something better then i said this is the place to ifnd out

do your best ye olde overclockers.

deadeyedic30 · 8 Feb 2006 at 13:02

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm - Retail (CP-121-AM)£162.09
Leadtek GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-069-LT) £211.44
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (MY-046-GL) 109.95 THIS WEEK ONLY
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) £72.79

Needs to add in deliverywhich might take him slightly over, as will the ram when it goes up after promotion ends. As there is no mention of SLI i left this out if he wants the option for future then drop ram to 1Gb to fund the SLI board, mine is the Epox EP-9NPA+ SLi . But all the Epox's are out.

otherwise i would have put one of their boards in.

semi-pro waster · 8 Feb 2006 at 13:33

This isn't that different from the specification above but it is using the X1800XL which is apparantly the better card at stock and normally overclocks better than the 7800gt as well so unless there is a specific reason for a 7800gt then I'd suggest the X1800XL. However as deadeyedic30 points out your friend would need to be quick as the offers change tommorow.

MB-120-AS Asus A8N5X nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-120-AS)
£51.95 £51.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£99.95 £99.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£137.95 £137.95
GX-042-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT)
£179.95 £179.95
Subtotal £469.80
VAT £82.22
Total £552.02

Naffa · 8 Feb 2006 at 14:32

ok cheers for your help people, il let him know what youve come up with.

thanks again

deadeyedic30 · 8 Feb 2006 at 18:06

How about the Gigabyte K8N SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard, its an SLI mobo and is pretty cheap, don't see many posts on Gigabyte good or bad. And as the semi pro waster said the HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT) is probably a better card.