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DoomHammer
05-20-2008, 06:22 AM
Im about to order and build a PC, my requirements are gaming and encoding, i have £1000 to spend, i dont need a monitor, speakers or wireless.

Here is a spec i have put in a basket on scan.co.uk which includes vista home premium 64bit from amazon, so the complete price of this would be £937.78.

Could someone with more knowledge than me :confused: look at this and offer alternatives, for example i could get the q6600 cpu instead of the q9450 and save 95 for something else e.g gpu.

any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. :)

Doom

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/329/speczw7.jpg
George Hallam
05-20-2008, 06:51 AM
That PC is fine you have selected the best possible parts ;)

The Q9450 is alot better than the Q6600 and will give you a long time of happiness :p
DoomHammer
05-20-2008, 06:57 AM
Thank you, i shall order shortly.
Heartborne
05-20-2008, 09:19 AM
Bollocks on the 8800 GTS. go with the 8800 GT. It's a better card and it's cheaper.
DoomHammer
05-20-2008, 09:24 AM
oh dear too late allready ordered, not much difference anyway in the forums ive read but if you have the money, burn it.

Final Buy

ABIT IP-35PRO S775 MOBO
Arctic Silver5 THERMAL PASTE
Antec Sonata III 500W ATX
2x 2Gb Corsair DDR2 6400 UB
Intel Q9450 Quadcore CPU
HP 1070i X20 BLK SATA RETA LS
USB2/FireWire PCI 8 Port Card
GAINWARD 8800GTS 512MB -8996
Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard
Saitek P2900 W/less GamingPad
Saitek PM42 Gaming Mouse
SStone BLK 3.5 FP34 I/O Module
1TB SAMSUNG SATA2 HD103UJ 32MB
MS Win Vista Home Prem 64Bit
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU 120mm F
George Hallam
05-20-2008, 10:21 AM
Bollocks on the 8800 GTS. go with the 8800 GT. It's a better card and it's cheaper.

Nah the 8800Gts is better.

the 8800Gt may be slightly better band for buck for the 8800Gts has more power

http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2007/12/12/geforce_8800_gts_512_mb/14.png

Also its only 30 pound more which is worth the extra performance
Heartborne
05-20-2008, 12:46 PM
that benchmark seems a bit off to me... the 8800 gts 512 outperforming the 8800 gtx? First I've seen of that I'm afraid... maybe I'd better look over all that again. Perhaps I confused the gts 512 with the gts 320/640 which is a totally different card.
George Hallam
05-20-2008, 01:28 PM
Yep two VERY different cards :p
Heartborne
05-21-2008, 12:23 AM
It's the old G90 gpu isn't it? I actually had the gts 320... I was happy to trade it in. The G92 cards are sooooo much better.
George Hallam
05-21-2008, 02:22 AM
It is the G92 chip