PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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Brother has handed me a whack of cash and wants something insane... £1600 budget...
1 x MSI GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI TVO
2 x LiteOn16x DVD+/- RW/RAM SATA
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB S300 8MB
1 x Akasa Active PFC 650W PSU with Sanyo Denki Fan
2 x Crusial 2x1GB PC3200 DDR
1 x Thermaltake Eureka Full Tower EATX Black with Window
1 x MSI Socket 940 nForce 4 Pro PCI-E ATX A L R
2 x AMD Socket 940 Opteron 275 2.2GHz 2MB
1 x Windows Vista Ultimate OEM
Yes, he DOES want Vista before anyone says anything...
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
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Not a bad spec mate 
Dont see what everyones problem is with vista  works 100% fine with me and much better than XP Pro 
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Something insane and amd chips don't really go together atm.
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IntaCepta
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should really consider getting a intel chip and overclocking it. Or you can wait until AMD bring out the next generation chips, but I get the impression your brother isn't in the waiting game.
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PaulW
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tbh for the price its a good system, dual-core dual-cpu setup, will do him for now..
personally im waiting on amd's next lineup of chips, pref quad-core opterons...
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Russ
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if it he wants it now get the quad core intels mate
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John
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Quad core intels aren't currently worth extra they cost over the dual cores.
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topshot_2k
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please tell me why the fook you need quad core for home 
that RAM is a bit on the slow side mate, go for PC6400
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Quad core intels aren't currently worth extra they cost over the dual cores.
makes more sense than 2 duak cires though
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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For 1600 i would look at something along the lines of....
- 2.4Gig Core 2 Duo
- Asus P5W64-WS Pro
- Titan Amanda Heatsink and Fan
- 2 x Seagate 250GB, Raid(Stripped Array)
- SLI 2 x 8800 GTS (would be more powerful than a single GTX and saves you about 150 quid
- 2x GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 (ie: 4GB worth)
- Tagan 700W
- Vista Ultimate 64 OEM
Comes to £1450 or so on Overclockers and they are far from the cheapest.
But if you are gonna go with something like your spec, then certainly get PC6400 ram and if you can 4GB of the stuff as Vista seems to be memory hungry. Plus i doubt paying the 500 odd for the BFG 8800 GTX is really worth it, SLI'ing two GTS's would be cheaper and quicker.
[Edited on 07-03-2007 by Dom]
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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quad core will do you no good unless you are doing heavy multi tasking or intensive cad work.
concentrate more of a decent graphics card and decent memory
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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quote:
Originally posted by topshot_2k
please tell me why the fook you need quad core for home
that RAM is a bit on the slow side mate, go for PC6400
I'll be using quad core as I do alot of rendering/video editing/encoding...
and the board doesnt support PC6400 
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