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    Power hungry components in a SFF?

    Just wondering if someone could help me out with a SFF system for about £1000, i was thinking along the lines of an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with either a 6800 or a 6800GT, 160gb samsung hdd and the nec3500, any help would be nice, thanks guys. 17" TFT btw!

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    Well That sounds like a nice system.

    17" TFT £300-350 You need to be looking for a TFT with a low response time anything sub 20ms will do the job. Its important that you invest some serious study into this piece of hardware as your going to be looking at it for hours on end. Iiyama, Samsung, Hitachi made some nice monitors

    Shuttle SN85G4 v2 £180-220. Mak sure you get the v2 as it has some minr improvements such as better ice system for cooling. Check out microdirect.co.uk or gemma.co.uk for latest deals

    Nvidia 6800 GT £265-300. If you can afford it go with the GT its going to give you some serious performance if your into your gaming and can easily be clocked up to Ultra speeds. Check out pcworld.co.uk and look in their component store.

    Hard Drive £80-100. Go for a SATA Hard drive I agree the Samsung spinpoint are great drives low temps and fairly quick, also check out the Seagate 7200.7 drives, they are the same as the samsungs in terms of quality but are also the quietest drives on the market.

    CPU. Your looking at a socket 754 so you have a pretty good choice of processor to chose from 2800+ - 3700+. I believe AMD have released a new version whcih only carries 512kb of Lv2 Cache for the S754's, you want to be looking for the version with 1mb of Lv2 cache prices will be similar.

    As you dont mention Ram I presume you have some already.

    Some key sites to check out.

    www.microdirect.co.uk
    www.komplett.co.uk
    www.cpucity.co.uk
    www.gemma.co.uk
    www.dabs.co.uk
    www.overclock.co.uk

    Happy hunting let me know how it all goes.

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    If you want a more stylish monitor, try the XP17 from Shuttle.

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