[tek]

Someone has offered to buy my current rig for £600, which is a good price considering. The spec is:

neovo 17" TFT
Sapphire 9600 Pro 128mb
2x512mb pc2700 ram
80gb hdd
p4 2.4ghz 800fsb
cheiftec dragon case - black

The reason I accepted the offer is because I believe it's possible to build a better rig for £600. I've been messing with ideas for weeks now but I can't seem to get the trade off right. The system will be used primarily for gaming so a good gfx card is needed etc. I'm not sure whether I should go for a CRT monitor which frees up more money for power or a TFT which saves desk space and looks infinately better. Some things I've been considering are pci-e gfx cards and amd's 64 bit processor range. Any help would be great. I've been using ebuyer for pretty much all my parts and prices. I need everything except speakers and soundcard.

[Me__2001]

is your limit £600 or can you stretch to over that ?

[tek]

I could probably go £50 more. I'm a poor student

[tek]

oh and I forgot to mention I don't need the OS.

[Me__2001]

this is a tight budget for a 64bit system but you may be able to do it, i've come up with the following

Asus A8V
AMD Athlon64 3200
512MB Geil RAM
160GB Maxtor SATA HD
Lite-on Dual layer DVD-RW
HIS Radeon 9800 Pro
Neovo F-417 17" LCD

roughly £595 from OCUK plus a case, mouse, keyboard

you could get most things cheaper off Ebuyer

[tek]

Yea ebuyer is pretty cheap. I was thinking of maybe having a CRT monitor to make room for more power. in a system I came up with I had a AMD64 3000+, 6600GT PCI-E, 80GB HDD (don't need much space, I burn stuff to dvd), 1024mb ram ddr400 and the list goes on.

[Me__2001]

ok i've made a few changes and come up with

Asus A8N-E
Athlon64 3000
1GB Geil RAM
80GB Maxtor SATA HD
Lite-on DVD-RW
Ilyama 17" CRT
Leadtek 128MB 6600GT
Logitech EX-100 Keyboard and mouse

£585 plus a case of your choice

prices still from OCUK

[tek]

Been tinkering with some specs and I came up with the following.

Case: Thermaltake Soprano VB1000BWS
http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/...&cat=24&page=1
£ 62.75 (including delivery)

PSU: Ebuyer 600w Power Supply Black With Tri Colour Dual Fans
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=61301
£18.79

Processor: AMD (Winchester) Athlon 64bit 3200+ 939pin 512kb L2 Cache 90nm OEM Processor
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=83377
£120.52

Graphics Card: PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600GT PCI-E 128MB GDDR3 (G66600GN1F12XPB) Retail Box
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=81343
£116.45

Mobo: ABIT AX8 SKT939 PCI-E 5.1AUDIO SATA USB2.0 DDR400
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=87019
£74.99

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80gb, Sata Ncq 3.5lp 7200rpm 8mb
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=80963
£37.42

Memory: Corsair (VS1GBKIT400C3) 1024MB (2 x 512MB Matched Pair), DDR400 / PC3200, non-ECC, Unbuffered, CL3, Memory Modules With Lifetime Warranty
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=54472
£66.69

Monitor: ACER AC713B 17" FST CRT TCO99 0.27dpi 1280x1024 Monitor - Black
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55684
£60.00

DvD RW: LG GSA4163 16x DVD R/RW/RAM Internal Dual Layer IDE OEM Black Drive
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=84112
£30.88

Keyboard: Microsoft OEM Black MultiMedia Keyboard - PS2
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=82987
£9.99

Mouse: Microsoft Black PS2/USB 3-Button Optical Wheel Mouse-OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=82520
£7.65

All that comes to £620.94 including delivery.

I'd like some feedback on the components I have selected. Remember, this is a gaming system on a tight budget. I think with the case and everything else in black it will look quite good on my desk. I would of liked a 17" TFT but CRTs are cheaper.

[Me__2001]

the only problem is that power supply, at £20 it aint gonna be all that, i'd get a decent one like a Tagan there great but expensive also look for antec or enermax in the 480W range

[tek]

What kind of problems can I expect from a PSU like that? I'm not very clued up on PSU so you'll have to educate me lol. Would this be a better choice? http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=43547