Time for a new upgrade

Fluffy Bunny · 4 Sep 2007 at 17:24

Hi peeps,
The time as come for the upgrade.It has been a while so now is the time.
I am currently running,
3 gig ddr
800 gig of hdd sata and ide
dfi lanparty M/b
3500 winnie
pcie x800 his g/card

I now need better and faster so have given myself a budget of £1000
Looking at :-
500 gig sata
dvd d/l burner
dvd reader
M/board
chip
ram
G/card

I am a big fan of ATI and AMD, but am open to better solutions.

Many thanks for your help,

semi-pro waster · 4 Sep 2007 at 17:44

Something like this ought to do you, I've included a good PSU as well to make sure that it stands up to a more demanding system.

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £63.99
(£75.19) £63.99
(£75.19)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £254.99
(£299.61) £254.99
(£299.61)
NEC AD7170A 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.99
(£18.79) £31.98
(£37.58)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
(£84.59) £71.99
(£84.59)
Noctua NH-U12F CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £33.99
(£39.94) £33.99
(£39.94)
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £154.99
(£182.11) £154.99
(£182.11)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04) £5.99
(£7.04)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £159.99
(£187.99) £159.99
(£187.99)
Sub Total : £835.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £148.02
Total : £993.87

SGWills · 4 Sep 2007 at 17:44

Quick spec

Intel C2Q Q6600 - £187.99 inc VAT
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R - £84.59 inc VAT
OCZ 2GB PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Rev 2 XTC Series - £64.61 inc VAT x 2 = £129.22
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB - £65.79 inc VAT
Asus DRW-1814BLT DVDRW - £21.14 inc VAT x 2 = £42.28
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - £17.61 inc VAT
Akasa Eclipse 62 -£93.99 inc VAT
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU -£68.14 inc VAT
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB - £299.61 inc VAT

Total - 989.22

Semi is quicker than me thou

Fluffy Bunny · 4 Sep 2007 at 18:44

so intel is the way to go then?
are they so much better than amd 2
does nvidea have better cards than ati?

keep it coming I like what I am seeing

Thanks

Fluffy Bunny · 5 Sep 2007 at 08:08

must be some more ideas from people?

Fluffy Bunny · 7 Sep 2007 at 13:05

so nobody thinks amd is ok?

SGWills · 7 Sep 2007 at 13:19

at the minute intel is the way to go and you were looking for a spec now. AMD are releasing there flagship chips towards the end of the year/ beinging of next year i believe

the price of intel chips dropped in july, so they are at a good price. If you are going to wait til the AMD chips come out then theres no point in taking the specs given above as the prices of components could change, newer and better stuff could come out..

personally for the price of the quad cores now, i would get a quad core, corsair 520/620 psu, a GTX and 4 gig of ram all for under £1000 is a good value set up