Processor
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4000BNBOX) (CP-120-AM)
£252.57

Motherboard
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£76.32

Memory
Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS)
£211.44

Graphics
BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-009-BG)
£370.07

Cooling CoolerMaster AquaGate WaterCooling System (WC-000-CM)
£117.44

total cost
£1026 = 1,518.75 EUR

this is the sort of thing i am looking for, my mind isnt totally made up but i am sure it will be something similar


hi reefy

get a better motherboard, the A8N-SLI deluxe is about £30 more or get a DFI lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D for an extra £20

i take it you have all of the other bits ?

i have a case allready, which came with a psu which i will probably need to change
and i have an audigy 2zs from my older computer

i saw you can get
AMD Athlon 64 (ADA4200BVBOX) X2 4200+ socket 939 Dual Core 2.2ghz 512kb and 512kb Cache for only a little extra and people said you can get like an 80% performace increase.

hmm about the DFI mobo, i dont really know alot about them, except for the fact they are better for overclocking (which i dont do anyway)

even if you dont overclock they perform better than most boards, if your just gaming which by the looks of it you are then a single core with a 1MB cache will give better performance than the X2, if however you want to try and future proof a bit and you do other CPU intensive tasks then a dual core is worth getting

80% increase sounds a bit optomistic but you will certainly see a big increase in performance on multi threaded tasks like video encoding

AMD (San Diego) Athlon 64bit 4000+ 939pin 1mb L2cache Retail Boxed Processor With 3 Year Warranty and Fan Included.

so like that

i am not really know that much about hardware, i just want to build the best pc i can for 900 (i know the price i posted goes over but i get alot discount on gfx card)

if you can get the extra £20 or £30 for one of the other boards then get either one if not what you have picked will be ok, that CPU is fine as is the rest of it

ill take a look into it, thanx for the help

Linky Linky Link

http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...NavigationKey=0

Athlon 4000+ for £233

lovely processor - only £20 more than 3800+

the new pc (this month or early next month)

Processor - AMD Athlon 64 4000 1MB cache
Motherboard - DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D
Graphics Card - BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB/Connect 3D ATI Radeon X1800XT 512Mb
Memory - Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1)
Sound Card - Audigy 2 ZS (softmodded ->Audigy 4)
Hard Drive - Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM
CD/RW - Some cheap ****™
Watercooling - Cooler Master Aquagate
Mouse - Razor Dimondback Magma
Monitor - 17" CRT (2x if i can be bothered)
Case - "Light Fusion"

i need to check benches before i choose gfx card..

that all sounds good to me