Gaming Rig Suggestions

[Merlin4458]

Seems to quite a lot recently, guess its time of the month. Anyway.

Budget = 900 quid for base unit

CPU = 3700 SD = 227 inc | Tekheads.co.uk

Mobo = Abit AN8 NF4 Ultra PCI-E (Socket 939)= 82 Tekheads.co.uk

Case = Tsunami dream = 70 | Microdirect

HD = Maxtor DiamondMax +10 NCQ 7200RPM SATA/150 200GB 8MB Cache = 65 | Tekheads

PSU = Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701 AX-VE PSU - SLI Ready = 92 | Tekheads

GFX =Radeon X850XT Platinum 256MB PCI-E DVI-I VIVO = 278

RAM = Patriot 1gb Dual Channel Low latency = 97 | Tekheads

DVD ROM = Sony DDU1615B DVD-ROM 16x OEM Black = 16 | Dabs

[COLOR=Red]TOTAL = 930

[YorkieBen]

maybe get the AN8 ultra non-Fatality version, it is about £85 and has a silent nforce4 chipset etc

[Merlin4458]

ok, any others suggestions on ram, hd, psu, was thinking enermax 600wat

[sawyen]

enermax is good... the rest of the specs seems promising... actually I'd rather dish out a few 10's more for the fatality version...

[Merlin4458]

but yorkie told me not too ? what would i gain from it?

[nez]

oh oh oh me me, i think you should go for the new seagate 7800.8 hdd, it has had some great reviews including toms hardware and doesn't cost much more.

[Merlin4458]

il check it. Any more reccomendations on ram and gfx

[sawyen]

corsair XMS (2x512) PC3200 C2PT... just as good, less the TCCD and the 2-2-2-5 timings.. but wont affect much...

[sawyen]

6800GT or an X800XL.... if u have alot of cash, might as well settle for a 7800 GTX.. really... it depends on how u want to spend it... spend less on ur cpu.. get better graphics.. or spends less on gfx.. more on cpu... the rest of the components are pretty standard..

[Merlin4458]

Just need ram now. Check my post at the top

[sawyen]

well, 1GB of XMS TwinX C2PT is only 88 quids..

[Merlin4458]

but 2x512 is quicker?

[mike_w]

well, 1GB of XMS TwinX C2PT is only 88 quids..

And it is, to my knowledge, almost exactly the same as Corsair Value Select RAM (in terms of timings), apart from the heatspreaders. Personally, I woukd save money and buy some decent quality RAM, such as Crucial or Corsair Value Select.

If you still want fast RAM, this seems to be pretty good for the price: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/part...BL2KIT6464Z402.

[Merlin4458]

can anyone pick out some good ram from the tekheads website? as im buying everything from them to save postage. Cheers lads. 80-100 quid

[Dark Horse]

Tekheads don't really have a great selection and ram really does depend on whether you are going to overclock.

Here is a list of the ram you'd be looking at:

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/departme...lue=DDR&sort=2

I would say the best there under £100 would be the Patriot 1gb Dual Channel Low latency

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=603313

I believe its tccd and so would give you a relatively easy overclock with low voltage or pretty good performance at stock settings over the corsair ram which is tbh not much better than the value stuff any more.

[Merlin4458]

ok that ram is is then . cheers dark horse