So I found some spare cash down the back of the sofa and thought now would be a good time to build a new rig.
My current machine I built quite a few years ago now and haven’t really kept up with developments so any advice is much appreciated.
The machine will be a bit an all rounder really as I’m an avid gamer and also dabble in animation 2D & 3D and editing with adobe and encoding and wat not.
Here’s wat I’m thinking.
Case: Antec nine hundred £65
Or Antec p180 £70
Is there much diff between these two? Is the p180 worth the extra 20bucks?
Graphics Card: Point of view 8800GTX 768MB £324
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz £240
With a Thermaltake big typhoon 120 to keep her cool £27
Will be waiting for the end of month price drop on the Q6600.
Monitor: Samsung 226BW 22” Wide TFT 2ms £221
PSU: Coolermaster Extreme power 650W PSU £78
Or corsair HX series 620W PSU £95
RAM: Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory £71
Or OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC £76
Next purchase will be to go 2 4gb but will see how I go with this 4 mo.
MOTHER: Abit FATALITY FP-IN9 SLI Socket 775 NF650i DDR2 ATX £75
Or Asus P5K-E/WIFI-AP, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II,SATA RAID, ATX £116
But really I have no idea on what mother board to get so any suggestions wud be very helpful as its got me stumped, I was looking at the P5K but I will not be using wifi but then again I wud like to be dabbling in overclocking at some point even tho I have no clue at the mo. I was thinking round £100 for a mother but if there’s good reasons im not solid on that. my main source here has been scan & e-buyer So any suggestions very welcome on all of the above especially the mother situ.