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wot did ‘e say? :-s

@poet wrote:

All I can suggest Feline is that if money is no problem, buy the latest top of the range hardware and software….Methinks you have the knowledge to put it all together so go for it 8) ……Any probs jusk ask Owen……he’s helped many folks on here… :D

Thankyou for the endorsement Poet, sadly methinks Cybercat has forgot more than I know about computers. :oops:

k, the 975x bad axe MB you selected is a good board but not yet available in the UK but should be soon, the gigabyte is a very good board also but more suited to the lower end conroe chips.

RAM wise the best choice is this GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel. This ram performs as good if not better than comparable specced g.skill or corsair ram and is actually cheaper at moment.

PSU wise this is what i advise for this system: Seasonic S12 500W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-001-SS)

for your optical drives i recommend either samsung or lite-on drives to match your case colour.

Go for the ATI GFX card as currently the only supported dual GFX card chipsets for conroe are crossfire compatible so there is another upgrade path for more performance in the future.

Case-wise i would not go for a gaming type case as these are generally quite noisy but instead i woudl reccommend this fantastic case: Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case

For the HDD this series are currently the best performers out apart from 10k rpm raptors and are also very quiet: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400GB ST3400620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM (HD-083-SE)

I hope this is of some help for you, all these items can be purchased from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ which has pretty much the cheapest component prices and the best selection of quality hardware in the UK.

Heres my gaming rig on a budget . still knock the pants of games .

1 x Casebuy A1.01 ATX Gaming case and 350w PSU 93105 £29.77
1 x Xion 400W PSU – Active PFC Dual 80mm Fan ATX 20/24pin 110457 £23.81
1 x Asustek M2V AM2 VIAK8T890 Sound, Gigalan And USB 2.0 2000MHz FSB SATA ATX 112169 £39.30
1 x Corsair 1GB DDR2 667 MHz 128MBx64 non-ECC 240 DIMM Unbuffered CL5 Lifetime Warranty 92879 £50.27
1 x Asus Nvidia 7600GT 256MB DDR3 TV out DVI PCI-E 111198 £98.54
1 x Maxtor 6V250F0 250GB 7200rpm SATAII 16mb Cache OEM 106749 £42.19
1 x LG GSA-H10NBAL 16x16DVD±RW 12x RAM Dual Layer Writer Black – Bare Drive 112582 £18.89
1 x Mitsumi OEM Black Internal Floppy Drive 1.44mb 3.5 Inch 62047 £3.34

Carriage £5.49
Subtotal £311.60
VAT £54.57
Order Total £366.17

i chose LG drive cause it is the most compatible with all formats .

maxtor is a fast budget drive and has 16mb of cache , much faster.

set hard disk up into 3 partitions

20 gb is for windows only

2x 115gb partition , put the virtual memory on the d: drive , the machine works faster
also install games onto d drive .

infact if only windows is on c: partition you get less crashes (i have none)you also don’t have to defrag as often and defrags are quicker

any way have fun looking at list , this lot is on http://www.ebuyer.com