Stuck on what to buy

[Xbandito]

Since you persuaded me to go Intel, I am now stuck on a few things.....
the list up to now is -:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
Asus P5KC Combo Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
Zalman CNPS8700-NT CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AL1065)

and now is the part I am stuck on....I have at the moment a HD2600xt 256mb graphics and I am now wondering do I -:
1. get a Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650/HTDI/256M HD 3650 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI
or
2. Get OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8000C5 1000MHz ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 instead of the Crucial kit

I am running windows xp pro 32bit at the moment and have no plans to fork out any more cash for vista (missus would kill me)
Roughly managed to get a budget of £420 without doing that much crawling

 

[mp260767]

have a look at the following, the 8000/8500 memory you mention is overkill tbh, this spec includes 4gb of memory and a better gfx card.

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £79.99 (£93.99)

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £137.99 (£162.14)

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £51.99 (£61.09)

OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99 (£70.49)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99 (£17.61)

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 (£7.04)

Sub Total : £350.94
Shipping : £8.95
VAT : £62.98
Total : £422.87

 

[C4EVA]

ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor

Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro Socket 775 Processor Cooler

Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 1066MHz/PC2-8500 XMS2 Dominator Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-15) E.P.P. DHX Technology Lifetime Warranty

Gecube HD 3850 Pro 512MB GDDR3 Overclocked Edition Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card

£440 Inc VAT & Delivery

Better to have 2Gb of much faster RAM then 4Gb of slower stuff that XP cannot use completely. I have had that memory running at 1250Mhz @ stock timings