system spec please

Gman

Gman

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Been using the same setup for around 3 years not without much change and it's starting to show its age when doing stressfully things and i've been out of the hardware side of things in this time.

Current setup is:
P4 2600
1 gig ram
Geforce4 ti4400

got a budget of around £700 - £800 deff no more than £800

all i'm wanting the spec for is:
Processor
Ram
Mother B
Graphics Card
possibly PSU as well

So spec away please :)
 
This is pretty much bang in the middle of the budget and should offer a very powerful and overclockable system. The graphics card is simply the cheapest 8800GTS currently in stock.

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £169.99
(£199.74) £169.99
(£199.74)
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SuperClocked 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £189.99
(£223.24) £189.99
(£223.24)
Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £99.99
(£117.49) £99.99
(£117.49)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Sub Total : £620.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
Vat : £110.23
Total : £740.12
 
looking good thanks mate.

Not really looking to overclock, so does the processor come it a stock heatsink so I could cut out the £30 heatsink and put that towards the next version up of the graphics card ?
 
The CPU is retail and it comes with a heatsink so you can do away with the Noctua if you want, it will probably be a bit quieter than the retail heatsink though.

As for going for the next graphics card up it might not be totally worth it at the moment unless you are gaming at say 1680x1050 as a minimum. :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
The CPU is retail and it comes with a heatsink so you can do away with the Noctua if you want, it will probably be a bit quieter than the retail heatsink though.

As for going for the next graphics card up it might not be totally worth it at the moment unless you are gaming at say 1680x1050 as a minimum. :)
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usually push for my max res which is 1920x1200 on dell which is probably why my current setup is starting to struggle.

sound isn't a big issue either as its in a room on it's own.
 
Then in that case the 640mb 8800GTS is definitely of benefit to you, I don't think you would be able to fit an 8800GTX into the budget without downgrading the CPU and since you don't want to overclock that probably isn't a great idea.
 
sounds good , any particular version of the 640mb 8800GTS as i can see quite a few different manufactures for this version.
 
They are all much of a muchness in performance terms since they get built to a reference design, the only real differences are in price, the cooling solution and the bundle. I don't know if any of them have a notably better cooling system so I'd probably just go with the cheapest - currently OcUK or Gainward.
 
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