First Build, Budget £650, please help

[charliereddog]

I mooted last year about buying a new pc, and couldn't really justify or afford it. Now I can. My initial budget is £650 but there's some leeway if absolutely necessary. I'm looking for a system built around an 8800 and a C2D, with at elast 2Gb RAM. I'll also need to buy Vista OEM (which I'll downgrade to XP I think), so factor that in too. So far, I've come up with the following, but I need a HD (Not too big), a MB as I haven't a clue what goes with what, and Fans/Heatsinks etc. Case wise, the PC's going to be under a desk, so it doesn't have to be the most aesthetically pleasing model but must be well cooled.

Basically, this pc will need to play Armed Assault well, if not I'm not interested. :D


EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCIE DUAL DVI #26692 £ 157.95 £ 157.95
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz (775) #27972 £ 98.50 £ 98.50
Total £ 301.33

[charliereddog]

OK, here's what Ive picked out. Would the following work together? Anything missing?

Microsoft XP Home OEM SP2 #25139 £ 43.25
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCIE DUAL DVI #26692 £ 157.95
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz (775) #27972 £ 98.50
160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 8MB #27791 £ 27.95
OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 Special Opps (2x1GB) #24326 £ 46.95
OCZ 600W StealthXStream PSU #26933 £ 44.95
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Silver #16357 £ 37.00

[Micky007]

[quote:9f01ec69cf=\"charliereddog\"]OK, here's what Ive picked out. Would the following work together? Anything missing?

Microsoft XP Home OEM SP2 #25139 £ 43.25
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCIE DUAL DVI #26692 £ 157.95
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz (775) #27972 £ 98.50
160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 8MB #27791 £ 27.95
OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 Special Opps (2x1GB) #24326 £ 46.95
OCZ 600W StealthXStream PSU #26933 £ 44.95
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Silver #16357 £ 37.00[/quote:9f01ec69cf]

Wheres your motherboard?

[charliereddog]

That's a fairly good point :D

[charliereddog]

What about this one?

Asus P5KPL-VM, iG31 LGA775 Core2 Quad / Extreme / Core2 Duo #28610 £ 43.95 £ 43.95

I think that will take the processor?

[charliereddog]

Anyone?

[alexnifty]

Seems like a good board to me. And the Asus website indicates that it will work with your CPU.