New Summer Rig :-D!

O.K so my exams are near all over and i will soon get a job for even more funds :mrgreen:! I need help selecting a few things to upgrade, as i want to have pretty much everything here for when the exams finish so i can start building!
I don't know what mobo to buy, should i go socket 939? Everyone is saying to wait to Conroe but i don't reckon i will be able to afford this and when it comes out it will be ridicously overpriced and i would not even go near it for a few months to wait for it to come down. So atm i am leaning towards getting a san diego 3700 on offer at tekheads atm
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/files/site...hotoffers.html
And pretty much decided on getting a hiper 580w blue PSU and a thermaltake tsunami dream case!
Does anyone have any other ideas of a rig for me, and how much i will get for things in my current one as i will need to sell parts off to fund this new one :)
Thanks!

Edit : Whoohooo 500th post!

OMG my 500th post to... I'll paste the specs that I made shortly, I usually have 3 different specs made at what time for fun... don't ask :D

lol! Thanks mate, and congratulations we can have a 500 party lol! Wonder what are avatars will be? Hmm...:confused: Well u can consider what i have already if you can put that towards new rig....i have a Fx5700le 256mb and 256mb x 2 Ram lying about also i suppose my 512mb x 2 Geil Ultra X is still a very good set of Ram as i paid good money for them not too long ago on here.

Cheap Computer
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3000 Orleans Core, 1.8GHz, 512KB Cache, Retail £73.34
MSI AM2 K9N NEO-F NF550, Socket AM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £58.92
256Mb Point of View 7600GS Mem Clock 800 MHz, GPU 400 MHz, 12 Pipes, Dual DVI-I HDTV £81.06
1GB Corsair Value Select, DDR2 PC4200 (533), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 £54.63
580W HiperPower HPU-4M580 Black SLi Ready Modular 20 + 24Pins P8 Ready ATX2.2/BTX £46.28
£314.23

Mid Priced Computer
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3800 + Windsor Core, Dual Core 2GHz, 512KB x 2 Cache, Retail £203.97
MSI AM2 K9N SLI Platinum NF570 SLI, Socket AM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 800, SATA I / II, SATA RAID, ATX £102.79
256MB Connect 3D Radeon X1800 XL PCI-E (x16) Mem 500 MHz , GPU 500 MHz ,16 Pipes VIVO CrossFire £169.20
2GB (2X1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC5400 (667), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 £133.82
580W HiperPower HPU-4M580 Black SLi Ready Modular 20 + 24Pins P8 Ready ATX2.2/BTX £46.28
£656.06

Expensive Computer
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 4400 Windsor Core, Dual Core 2.2GHz, 1MB x 2 Cache, Retail £317.85
ASUS M2N32-SLi Deluxe NF590 SLI, Socket AM2, PCI-E(x16), DDR2 800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX, Wireless £136.59
512MB ASUS Radeon X1900 XTX PCI-E (x16) Mem 1550 MHz , GPU 650 MHz ,48 Pipes VIVO £351.20
2GB (2X1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC5400 (667), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 £133.82
620W Enermax Liberty Modular Series SLi - ELT620AWT aPFC ATX2.2 2xPCI-E 4xSATA 12cm Quiet Fan £99.75
£1,039.21

:( won't let me choose an avatar... ah well. Basically for AM2 you're RAM is useless. I only did base component upgrades here assuming you already have case, hdd, windows, dvd drive, etc.

:eek: lol! Is it not better staying AGP rather than PCI-E? Or is all the AM2 based mobos PCI-E? Is there not some with both options so that i could still run my current card for a while, as GPU will probably be the last thing i buy and will want to keep it running with one of my cards. How much do you think i could raise selling my CPU, mobo, Ram, and graphics card then (GPU has unlocked pipes and clocked at 490/890). There's noway i could afford that expensive one though :shocked2: :mad:
Do you think it's worthwhile updating my hard drive, as i don't reckon it would make much of a difference speedwise and it would be alot of hassle transferring everything :undecided
Is the AM2 far superior to the socket 939? As many people have this on here...AM2 is only new isn't it?
Yeh avatar not working here either, leave it a day until systems updat probably :)

If you don't want to ditch AGP yet, but want to upgrade to 939 then you can still get an NForce 3 board. Will just mean you'll have to buy a new motherboard when you want to switch to PCI-E.

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Originally Posted by Tarffie

If you don't want to ditch AGP yet, but want to upgrade to 939 then you can still get an NForce 3 board. Will just mean you'll have to buy a new motherboard when you want to switch to PCI-E.

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or you could get an Asrock 939 DualSATA & have both AGP & PCI-E...