Help me price/make my system please

Hey there guys, basically i'm off to university in a week and was planning on getting a pc for ~ £1000 but having talked to a few people i've decided to move onto a 939 instead of a 754 and make my computer that little bit more future proof so i've pushed (and i mean pushed!) my budget to £1300-1350. Basically i think I know the basics but wanted you guys to give me any advice you could, especially when it comes to specificity. ie. what gfx card brand etc!

Was planning on a Socket-939 board (what's the best one at the moment?) with the 3500+ Athlon 64,

a 17" TFT,

a 6800GT (help on what brand and where in stock would be nice)

1024mb Ram (what type, brand, where, help!)

the nec3500 and another standard dvd-rom,

Antec Sonata Midi Tower with 380W PSU (will i need to buy another higher powered PSU? any other quiet case recommendations?)

Audigy 2?

160gb Samsung Seapoint x 2 (320gb)

No ideas on what heatsink to get, want my case to be quiet tho, just use the stock one?

I havent priced it up yet because there's quite a large variation in price between brands of ram / mobo / gfx / tft. If anyone could help i'd appreciate it.

17" TFT, you could get either the Hyundai Imagequest Q17+ or the Samsung 172X

6800GT's, the majority of them can do ultra speeds. Mine does and i've got a galaxy glacier 6800GT. The gainward goldensample ones seem to go further.

RAM, 1024MB of Corsair XL i'd suggest. Nice tight timings.

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Originally Posted by Punto

Hey there guys, basically i'm off to university in a week and was planning on getting a pc for ~ £1000 but having talked to a few people i've decided to move onto a 939 instead of a 754 and make my computer that little bit more future proof so i've pushed (and i mean pushed!) my budget to £1300-1350. Basically i think I know the basics but wanted you guys to give me any advice you could, especially when it comes to specificity. ie. what gfx card brand etc!

Was planning on a Socket-939 board (what's the best one at the moment?) with the 3500+ Athlon 64,

a 17" TFT,

a 6800GT (help on what brand and where in stock would be nice)

1024mb Ram (what type, brand, where, help!)

the nec3500 and another standard dvd-rom,

Antec Sonata Midi Tower with 380W PSU (will i need to buy another higher powered PSU? any other quiet case recommendations?)

Audigy 2?

160gb Samsung Seapoint x 2 (320gb)

No ideas on what heatsink to get, want my case to be quiet tho, just use the stock one?

I havent priced it up yet because there's quite a large variation in price between brands of ram / mobo / gfx / tft. If anyone could help i'd appreciate it.

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Asus A8V Deluxe v2.0 - make sure it is the v2.0 with the working PCI\AGP locks if you want to overclock.

Some OCZ 3700EB would be nice for the A64 or the Corsair as suggested.

380w PSU will be fine.