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dameous

Geek Trainee
Im thinking of buying a completely new system for the purpose of a better, faster and nicer looking gaming experiance. Ive found a site called pc specialist (uk based) and using their system builder this is what i have come up with...

CPU
AMD® ATHLON® 64BIT 3000 (Winchester) 512kb (Special Offer)

Memory
2048 MB CORSAIR DDR400 PC3200 - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® A8N-SLI SE: DUAL DDR, S-ATA, 2 x x16 VGA, 3 PCI

USB Options
SIX USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT)

Hard Drive 1
SATA II 160 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache

Hard Drive 2
NONE

Raid
NONE

CD Writer/Combi Drive
16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM

DVD ROM
NONE

CD/DVD Writer
52X 32X 52X CD WRITER

Graphics Card 1
256MB GEFORCE 7600GS PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

Graphics Card 2
256MB GEFORCE 7600GS PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

Sound
HIGH END ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL SOUND (RECOMMENDED)

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Network Facilities
2 x 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORTS (1 PORT ON A8N-SLI SE)

Floppy Disk Drive
1.44MB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE

Memory Card Reader
NONE

Case
Stylish Silver/Black Sigma case + 2 front USB

Power Supply & Cooling
600W Super Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm fan & CPU Cooler (£79)

OS Required
MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® XP HOME (inc. Genuine CD & licence) (£59)

Firewire
1 x FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD (A8N-SLI DELUXE ONLY)

Monitor
NONE

Keyboard
NONE

Mouse
NONE

Speakers
NONE

Printer
NONE

Anti Virus
NONE

Office
MICROSOFT WORKS 8.5 - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, etc (£6)

TV Card
NONE

Warranty
1 Year Return-to-Base Warranty + 1 Month Free Collect & Return

Price (excluding VAT)
£605.11

Price
£711.00

Order Quantity
1

Bulk discount
£0

Total order price (Ex VAT)
£605.11

Total order Price

£711.00


I just wanted to know, if this is any good for what i want, and if the price is reasonable? Can anyone help?
 
I think you should ditch the 2 7600GS's and go with either an ATi Radeon X1900XT, or 7900GT, the X1900XT's which are almost as powerfull as a 7900GTX are round about £212 now and would easilly do better than 2 7600GS's, how much will it cost for both of the 7600's?

Also, i would reccomend maybe getting an AMD 64 3500+, how much for the 300+ CPU, AMD X2 dual core's have shot down in price too, maybe consider getting one of those.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (2.2ghz) £129 @ overclockers.co.uk :good:, look at SKT939, i see your going to be betting a 939 rig, the newest socket is AM2, but with AM2 you have to use DDR2 memory and by the looks of it, for some decent DDR2 memory its preety expensive, you are building the rig right?

Yea the price seems preety good.
 
No, im not building it myself ( I dont have the confidence to build from scratch! ) It will be built for me, all in the price. Ive just looked at getting one 256MB GEFORCE 7900GT PCI Express + DVI + DVI + TV-OUT instead of the two 7600's and its put the price to £808 includind vat and delivery. does that sound about right?

Ok, ive added the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 and it now costs £872 plus vat and delivery.

this is the spec so far

CPU
AMD® ATHLON® 64BIT X2 4200 2 x 512K L2 Cache (939 pin)

Memory
2048 MB CORSAIR DDR400 PC3200 - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® A8N-SLI SE: DUAL DDR, S-ATA, 2 x x16 VGA, 3 PCI

USB Options
SIX USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT)

Hard Drive
SATA II 160 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache

Second Hard Drive
NONE

RAID
NONE

DVD ROM/Combi Drive
16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM

CD/DVD Writer
52X 32X 52X CD WRITER

Graphics Card 1
256MB GEFORCE 7900GT PCI Express + DVI + DVI + TV-OUT

Graphics Card 2
NONE

Sound Card
HIGH END ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL SOUND (RECOMMENDED)

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Network Facilities
2 x 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORTS (1 PORT ON A8N-SLI SE)

Floppy Drive/Card Reader
1.44MB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE

Case
Stylish Silver/Black Sigma case + 2 front USB

Power Supply & Cooling
600W Super Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm fan & CPU Cooler (£79)

Operating System required
MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® XP HOME (inc. Genuine CD & licence) (£59)

Firewire & Video Editing
1 x FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD (A8N-SLI DELUXE ONLY)

Monitor
NONE

Keyboard
NONE

Mouse
NONE

Speakers
NONE

Printer
NONE

Anti-Virus
NONE

Office Software
MICROSOFT WORKS 8.5 - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, etc (£6)

TV Card
NONE

Warranty
1 Year Return-to-Base Warranty + 1 Year Free Collect & Return: £5
 
yea thats better, check that the mobo you want can support the X2, and i think you should look for a 512mb 7900GT, if you find one but cant afford it, look for an X1900XT ATi card for aorund the same price as the 7900GT, if you can find one, that will be a real good system.

Wait for other replys as some people will have somthing to say about the cpu, some people might reccomend a diffo cpu or graphics card etc...
 
just been looking on the overclockers site at their full systems. how does this sound...

- AMD Athlon 64 4000 San Diego (Socket 939) Dual DDR400 CPU
- AMD Freezer 64 Pro Approved Cooler
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC4000 Dual Channel Kit
- 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Onboard Sound
- Tagan TG600-U25 600W Dual Engine ATX2.01 SLi Compliant Silent PSU
- Windows XP Homel pre-installed with License and CD supplied


the price is about £1150 after vat. It looks good to me, but im no expert.

P.S thanks for the help so far. Ive also been looking at building my own, but after checking the component prices on scan, overclockers uk, and a few others, the final prices when compared with a pre built one are nearly the same. I take it this common for the higher end spec stuff.
 
thats brill, do they come with allready overclocked 4000+ AMD's to 2.8ghz? should say.
 
from the info...

Ultima AMD Athlon 64 4000 running at FX57 Speeds (2.8GHz). With gaming performance at the heart of this PC with clock speeds of 2.8GHz+ and the awsome power of NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 GTX

Im very tempted to buy it now...
 
Yea, that does look like a really good rig, and i belive its worth the money as overclockers is a very good online store :good:, if you want it get it, i highly doubt you wont be happy with that rig :good:, its worth the money i think if you dont want to build your own rig.
 
dameous said:
No, im not building it myself ( I dont have the confidence to build from scratch! )
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well building it yourself is only hard / difficult if you have any problems, it is very worth while building your own system, forget lacking in confidence, we'll be here to give you help and advice
 
I would like to have a go at building it myself, but i have not found a great differance in price. Do you know of a good components retailer, because the ones ive looked at (scan, overclockers) dont seem that competive when compared to a full pre built rig. For instance, the complete rigs ive described in the previous posts have been around the same price (give or take a hundred) when bought from scratch.
 
well the ones on overclockers.co.uk are allready cheap to start with, one of those rigs at overclockers for £1000 would be sold for like £2000 at a rip of place like PCworld.
 
damn right. The AMD ATHLON 64BIT X2 4200 CPUwas £350 in my local PC world. Ridiculous.

I have just purchased the rig from overclockers. it looks like a good deal to me. Thanks for everyones help.
 
yea, i got an X800XT PE for £190 in pc world an X800 (8pieplines piece of crap) was £300 :o
 
dameous said:
I would like to have a go at building it myself, but i have not found a great differance in price. Do you know of a good components retailer, because the ones ive looked at (scan, overclockers) dont seem that competive when compared to a full pre built rig. For instance, the complete rigs ive described in the previous posts have been around the same price (give or take a hundred) when bought from scratch.
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Ebuyer.co.uk is a good site and has some tasty prices. I based my rig's pricing off ebuyer, I am in Budapest, Hungary so I can't use any sort of internet-based retailer.
 
mut said:
Ebuyer.co.uk is a good site and has some tasty prices. I based my rig's pricing off ebuyer, I am in Budapest, Hungary so I can't use any sort of internet-based retailer.
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Ebuyer is so far in my opinion the cheapest online store i know. i bought my mobo for £60 and in overclockers its £70. the cpu is the same price but at the moment i think ebuyer has got their prices of some products a bit mixed up e.g. their 3800x2 was £105 the other day now it is £200 and their 4200x2 is something like £130. its just sort of messed up but ive always found them cheaper
 
eVGA 512-P2-N568-AR Geforce 7900GT KO 512MB is the one to look for. It is $300 us. This is one of the non-defective cards of the 7900 so look into it.
 
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