Answered my own question.

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Its alright.

That power supply wont do crossfire though.

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Se my biggest worry is that I buy a case, PSU, Motherboard, CPU, RAM & all the other shite and none of it works with anything else.


Why can't it be simple?

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It is.

Do you want AMD or Intel?

AMD - AM3
Intel - 1156 (Mid-High), 1366 (High), 1155 (New, Mid-High)

Then the rest is a doddle.

RAM - DDR3 1333MHz at least

Graphics - PCIe x16
nvidia - GTX460/560 or GTX 570/580 if you're made of money
AMD - 5 or 6000 series at 750+ is fine

PSU - ~500W of a decent brand is fine for most

Case - Mid tower or bigger

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Case
...£040 -- Antec 300 ***

Memory
...£080 -- Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) 1333MHz (CL9)
...£090 -- Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) 1333MHz (CL7) ***

Motherboard
...£100 -- ASUS P55/P7D ***

Power supply
...£080 -- Antec 650W New TruePower ***

Processor
...£160 -- Intel Core i5 750 ***

http://orders.ebuyer.com/customer/shopping/index.html?action=c2hvd2NhcnQ%3D


That's using my existing drives and GFX card and it comes out about £450 but some of these PCs on ebay are higher spec'd for less dosh.

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Link me to an example of a cheaper one, and i'll tell you where they cut corners on it.

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The numbers are the socket type, the brackets are their corresponding performance areas.

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Small HDD, low end graphics, hasnt named the RAM, mid range CPU. Motherboard doesnt look all that.

Aside from that, brill.

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Woot!


*buys*

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What was wrong with those parts I linked you to?

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Nothing. I'm looking at them now.


http://www.ciao.co.uk/Productinformation/HP_Pavilion_Media_Center_m7515_uk_Pentium_D_915_2_8_GHz__6688420


That's the gooseberry fool box I have at the moment.

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Yeah, that is pretty shite.

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How about this one?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hex-Core-AMD-X6-AM3-8gb-1TB-ATI-Graphics-HDMI-VGA-DVI-/150560516739?pt=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item230e1b2a83#ht_3074wt_1139

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Cant find much info on the motherboard, though it doesnt seem to bad. And the machine doesnt have any graphics card at all.

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Yeah you're wasting money paying for onboard video if you planned on putting a graphics card in. Seriously, just build your own.

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What's the cheapest place to get a Notshit* copy of Windows 7?

*64bit ordinary version to be reused on future PCs.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173784

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173791

Or buy in bulk.

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