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HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (H195PRQT256DD-R) £109.99

(£129.24)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £93.99

(£110.44)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) £13.99

(£16.44)
OcUK 1GB (2x512MB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £63.99

(£75.19)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £84.99

(£99.86)
Sub Total : £366.95
Shipping : £8.95
Vat : £65.78
Total : £441.68

lil bit ogver budget but will be very good :) the 1950 is the budget card to have at the moment its amazingly good for the price
 
Thanks guys. I'll go with the Gigabyte then. I don't like scrimping on mobo's for the sake of £20.

The HIS won't work for me! I've still got an old (but very nice) CRT monitor so I need a VGA connection :eek: :D

Otherwise that lineup looks great, thanks fishdude.
 
The HIS video card has two DVI outs, but also two dongles to convert them to VGA.

It really is one of the best bang for the buck video cards on the market right now, so much so that I just ordered one for myself :)

FK
 
Ah, OK. Thats perfect then!

Just got to find the money now. :rolleyes:

Didn't really want to spend this much, but going on the rating that everything it getting, it would be silly to scrimp on a few bits. Need to see if I can pinch a SATA HDD from Dad :D
 
you should be able to overclock that cpu nicely on that board with the cooler i mentioned :)

normally 2gb of ram is recomended but obviously that would take you wayyyyyyyy over budget. for the price it will still be a really nice system :) and you the ram you did mention woudl work fine also :) ocuk is £10 cheaper so figured better as you on tight budget
 
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Yes I realise I could do with more RAM. I'm comfortable enough with that, and adding more at a later date is OK with me :)

The cooler looks good, especially for the money.

At a later date I'll also replace some of the fans in my case with some quiet ones. Note to self: Must find some Arctic Silver if I have any lying around.
 
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the cooler comes with thermal paste pre applied :) i used that some people on here do prefer to clean it all off and use artic silver. but the paste that came with it is working fine for me :)
 
Am I losing anything by going for the OCUK branded RAM?

It saves me £11, has the same speed and CAS timings as the OCZ stuff..?
 
The OcUK stuff is pretty standard stuff as far as I am aware, it doesn't have heatspreaders on it that I can see but they don't do a huge amount unless you are seriously overclocking and even then you are probably better off with a fan pointed at the Ram. :)

SiriusB said:
PS: The avatar looks good semi-pro :)
Click to expand...

Thanks, it still looks a bit odd to me but in a good way. :)
 
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