What Do You Think Of This PC

[KyleB]

I was a little bored, so I set myself a budget of 600-700£ to build a PC that would annihalate Football Manager, and enable me to play some of the new FPS at a decent speed and without any stutters.

I currently have a P4 2.0Ghz with 1Gig of Ram and a 200gig hdd. Its not a SATA drive, would I be able to use this in my PC that I have built?

I'm a little out of touch, with what is the best, so anyone can say what to go for then id be much obliged.

I used scan.co.uk to get all the parts, and i think it looks like it could be good

-Motherboard- (LN11523)
Abit KN8 PCI-E S939 NF4 DDR400 SATA Raid Gbit Lan USB2 7.1Ch Audio £64.99

-Processor- (LN10546)
AMD Athlon 64 3000 32/64Bit CPU S939 "Venice" 90nm Retail inc Heat Sink Fan & 3 Years Warranty £96.70

-Graphics Card- (LN12465)
256MB Leadtek WinFast SLi PCI-E 6800GS DDDR3 TV Dual DVI £166.13

-RAM x2- (LN10759)
1Gb Corsair, DDR400/PC3200, 128Mx64, non-ECC, 184 DIMM, unbuffered, 3-3-3-8, Silver H/S, L/T Wty £169.88

-Hard Drive- (LN10455)
250Gb SATA150 Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 10 (7200rpm,16MB) - NCQ £75.00

-Case w/PSU 400w-(LN11801)
Scan 8033/C4 Black Midi Tower Case with 400W PSU £29.25

-DVD-R/RW x2- (LN11747)
LG GSA-4167BAL Black 16x16 ±R Super Multi Dual Layer DVDRW/RAM Writer OEM UK £57.48

-7.1 Speakers- (LN8358)
Creative Labs Inspire T7900 7.1 Speaker System UK £64.91

TOTAL £741.97 inc P+P

 

[Maxx]

Not too bad, would go for a higher spec cpu tho

 

[Bryan]

personally i'd ditch the speakers and case (use your existing components) and spend more on the motherboard and processor of possible, have a look at the thread griff started about the amd opteron 144

i personally when i get my upgrade will be going for a amd 64x2 with a dfi lan-party nf4 motherboard, a little more expensive, but the next step for me

 

[Griff]

I can vouch for the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 boards having the Ultra-D version myself. A little daunting at first maybe due to the mountain of options but the best AMD motherboard available today.

 

[KyleB]

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_pr....jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3471&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&SITE=US

is that the one?

Anyone got a website with a price on for the motherboard?

 

[Griff]

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3471&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&SITE=US

is that the one?

Anyone got a website with a price on for the motherboard?

That's the fella... Available most places -

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=11675&&source=Dealtime

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=310787&cks=SER