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[neverender]

For sub-£400 I'm looking for a new CPU, Motherboard, RAM, HDD and Graphics card combo to swap out for my aging 939 setup. Mainly going to be used for gaming and generic computer use (work, interweb etc). Not interested in overclocking at all, and because of that AMD CPU offers are becoming much more attrative to me as a platform (given the cost of Intel CPU/Motherboard combos). Also keen on an ATi card over nVidia due to their lower power consumption, noise and heat, plus they suit my budget far more.
Here's what I've brought together so far, but I am of course open to suggestions.


AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ Black Edition 2.60GHz (Socket AM2)
Asus M2R32-MVP Crossfire (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 3870 XT Extreme Silent 512MB GDDR4
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

a mere £373.53 delivered. Will be paired with one old IDE drive, DVDRW, XFi, and a Corsair 620watt PSU.

 

[Kanifee]

personally i would steer clear of asus as customer support is horendous apart from that id say it looks pretty sweet for sub £400 do you want crossfire in the future?

 

[neverender]

I've always enjoyed having ASUS boards in the past, but I've been lucky enough to never have to deal with their customer support so couldn't comment there.
I went for a Crossfire board as it seemed the most sensible option given the ATI card, but realistically I doubt it would get any use.

 

[Kanifee]

looking at the boards there, the asus seems to be the best one any way so id just go ahead with that if you have allways been happy with asus.
should be a good system