New PC

[BowzeR]

Rightho Laaaaaaaads. Im saving up for a new rig and lookin to spend about a grand and this is what i have come up with and u gays seem to kno alot about pcs n stuff so anything u can get me to change or suggest cheaper stuff tehn all is welcome

nForce 750-SLIP5N-D Chipset Motherboard w/Dua; 16x PCI-E
Windows Vista Home Premium
OCZ 4096MB PC-6400 DDR2-800 Dual Channel Memory
400GB 7200RPM SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache Ultra Fast HD
2x GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Video runnin SLI Mode
18x Double Layer DVD+/-RW Drive & 16x DVD-ROM
High Definition 7.1 3-D Surround Sound
Logitech Keyboard and Optical Mouse
NZXT Lexa Blackline Tower Case
Dual Engine High Performance PSU

all that i dont understand just looks good in the magazines haha

[IceT-Bag]

I would aim for a mobo that supports PCIe 2.0 and opt for one or more graphics card that support the PCIe 2.0 standard - and DX10.1 (future proofing).

I've only heard bad things about Vista, but if you want to experience DX10 stuff you'll need it - otherwise I'd go for XP Pro - Microsoft have extended its 'lifetime' by another 2 years - which should give them time to fix Vista (XP only makes use of 3gb ram max).

I've never heard of that PSU make, but can recommend OCZ.

[Sky]

Rightho Laaaaaaaads. Im saving up for a new rig and lookin to spend about a grand and this is what i have come up with and u gays seem to kno alot about pcs n stuff so anything u can get me to change or suggest cheaper stuff tehn all is welcome

nForce 750-SLIP5N-D Chipset Motherboard w/Dua; 16x PCI-E
Windows Vista Home Premium
OCZ 4096MB PC-6400 DDR2-800 Dual Channel Memory
400GB 7200RPM SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache Ultra Fast HD
2x GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Video runnin SLI Mode
18x Double Layer DVD+/-RW Drive & 16x DVD-ROM
High Definition 7.1 3-D Surround Sound
Logitech Keyboard and Optical Mouse
NZXT Lexa Blackline Tower Case
Dual Engine High Performance PSU

all that i dont understand just looks good in the magazines haha

Not having a CPU then?
Make sure the case has LOTS of cooling if your gonna SLi 8800GT's
Personally for that sort of money I'd opt fof an X38 chipset and a single 1024mb ATI HD3870 X2 gfx
and spend the extra on better RAM and CPU

[BowzeR]

Cpu is....... quad W9300 2.5Ghz

cheers for the advice

[Sky]

Cpu is....... quad W9300 2.5Ghz

cheers for the advice

Ice is researching X38 MB's ATM, recommendations Ice?

[IceT-Bag]

I've translated "W9300" into the Queens English, the outcome is Intel Q9300

Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
Gigabyte GA-X38-DS5
DFI Lan Party Lt-X38-TR2
Asus P5E3 Deluxe

...there are numerous others!

Further Reading:
:: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews ... leId=21618
:: http://www.tweaktown.com/computex2007/2 ... index.html
:: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1 ... 125,00.asp

[Sky]

I've translated "W9300" into the Queens English, the outcome is Intel Q9300

Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
Gigabyte GA-X38-DS5
DFI Lan Party Lt-X38-TR2
Asus P5E3 Deluxe

...numerous others.

I put it down to Bowz's chubby fingers hitting the wrong key

[IceT-Bag]

The ATI Radeon HD 3870 (PCIe 2.0) outperforms the ATI Radeon 2900XT (that I have!) and its half the price I paid for my 2900XT

...so Im going to get one (though I'll also need an X38/X48 chipset to support it)

[IceT-Bag]

...
I put it down to Bowz's chubby fingers hitting the wrong key

I put it down to his fetish of typing with his c*ck!

[Sky]

From a review on overclockers.co.uk

Love this card. Got it before OCUK was stocking them and had it running for a while now. It's not struggled with anything I've cared to throw at it (Running on a Phenom 9500 Black, 8gb ram system), Churning out full 1080P with every setting to max on any games I've run so far.
Running cool and alot less noisey than I expected.

Be warned, it's massive. Only JUST fits in my NZXT Lexa blackline case.

Check the other reviews here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... -HT&tool=3