Any views on a few items Im buying?

[Ch!lledBudwei2e]

Just recived a Barton XP2500 + Asus A7N8X-E deluxe and a lad in work has agreed to buy my system off me, so I will need some new parts, and currently going with:

Scan 550W 3XS Meridian

Sold him my WD 120gb ( 8mb ) so I will buy a new 200gb WD ( 8mb )

ThermalRight SP-97, if anyone has a link with some in stock ?!? Also need a fan to go on it, needs to be a middle ground for noise/power.

NEC ND3500 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter, many places have it for £65


Need some advise on a +-£130 gfx, will be used for picture editing and gaming.


He's having my turtle beach santa cruz ( sonic fury ) as I take it the mobo has good enough on board sound?

The rest of the parts I have.

[BenW]

get a radeon 9800Pro, about £125 from lowestontheweb and onboard sound should be fine

[mike_w]

For that budget, I think the 9800 Pro would be perfect. It can play almost all games out now at max details, and should last a while if you don't mind turning down the graphics a few notches in the future.

[BUFF]

ThermalRight SP-97, if anyone has a link with some in stock ?!?

http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/catalo...roducts_id=450

[Leo]

Just recived a Barton XP2500 + Asus A7N8X-E deluxe and a lad in work has agreed to buy my system off me, so I will need some new parts, and currently going with:

Scan 550W 3XS Meridian

Sold him my WD 120gb ( 8mb ) so I will buy a new 200gb WD ( 8mb )

ThermalRight SP-97, if anyone has a link with some in stock ?!? Also need a fan to go on it, needs to be a middle ground for noise/power.

NEC ND3500 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter, many places have it for £65


Need some advise on a +-£130 gfx, will be used for picture editing and gaming.


He's having my turtle beach santa cruz ( sonic fury ) as I take it the mobo has good enough on board sound?

The rest of the parts I have.

Dont know abt the Scan PSU, but for the same amount of money, u can get the CWT 550W PSU (same as antec, seeing as CWT manafacture Antec PSUs), which might be a better investment.

Also, for £130 .. cant go better than a 9800Pro. The lowestonweb is a Connect3d one, and the one I ordered last week turned out to be an R360 core with Hynix Ram. Sitting in my system at the moment flashed to an XT and clocked to 450/360.

[iMc]

Afaik that Scan PSU is the CWT just under the Meridian brand name. Very good PSU's by all means.

[Ch!lledBudwei2e]

Cheers people, all orderd ready for next week!

[Leo]

also forgot to mention, that the board does have onboard soundstorm on it, so pretty decent sound (meaning u wont have to buy a new card)