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DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard £105.69
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-096-AM) £111.57
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) £93.94
Samsung SpinPoint P SP1614C 160GB SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-012-SA) £67.56
PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-038-PC) £229.07
Antec Sonata Piano Black Quiet Case - 380W TruePower Silent PSU (CA-003-AT) £82.19
Total £690.02
Oh, just realised I've not added a heatsink/fan. Comes with the stock one but I presume they're rubbish and noisy still?
> I would think so. Does it come separately?
It will fit any 120mm fan, the case comes with special vibration reducing rubber mounts for the extra fan...
Oh and it looks damn sexy, It more than stands up to the cheesy fluorescent bulb equipped see through window PCs at LAN events :P
I have one and it is very quiet, are you adding the optional 2nd 120mm fan?
cookie monster wrote:
> Looking at the format of the pasted text it looks like that's where
> he's been.
Yep. I've heard some bad things about their customer service so I might buy at technologically-minded-body-part.co.uk, but I like the overclockers website for browsing through stuff.
That site is quite good for other stuff too, and apparently the Winchester Retail HSF is quite good. Some people are overclocking thier 3200s to 2.6-7Ghz on retail air, which considering how effiecient these things are is one considerable speed boost in real life.
Also, you may need to change PSU to get a ATX2.0 one which supports PCI-E. I'd recommend Tagan or Enermax.
The RAM is good but if you wanna overclock, get tighter timings etc I'd recommend Geil Ultra-X.
For that price bracket, that card is pretty much the best performer you'll get, and I believe its also VIVO which is cool.
That sounds an awesome machine UK.
Good choice on the HDD as well.
Can't really critique anything to be honest, other then be jealous.