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Originally posted by Cru54d3r If i was spending that much id want to know what brand the memory and hdds were .. and id also want a seperate and decent sound card and not the integrated crap you get with a mobo .. the general lack of info on the components aint helping that it seems to be pitched as a high end system .. i mean i wouldnt want a philips tft monitor ... especially if the response time is 20ms or over ..

don't knock integrated sound cards. gigabyte and asus have wicked integrated sound capabilities! obviously you can get better stand-alone cards, but what the hell do you need one for unless you work in a studio?

you're right about the ram and hdd tho, for that price i'd want 2gb dual channel DDR made by corsair or something.. and it would be better if you got a different mobo with it, gigabyte boards are amazing at running at standard speeds, but when it comes to overclocking anything they ain't the best in the world.

lookk at asus or a-bit

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Originally posted by kr00t0n Mmm... A64 is tricky on that budget: Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS2.5 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400) (MY-041-CS) NEC ND3500 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-012-NE) Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB ATA-100 2MB Cache - OEM (HD-007-SE) Vantec Nexus NXP-201 Fan Controller - Black (OA-007-VT) HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon 9550 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-009-HT) Antec SLK3700BQE Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 350W SmartPower PSU (CA-011-AN) Creative Sound Blaster Live! LS 5.1 Digital - OEM (SC-004-CL) AMD Athlon 64 2800 Newcastle 130nm (Socket 754) - Retail (CP-084-AM) Asus K8N (Socket 754) Motherboard (MB-080-AS) I could do a much better Socket A machine for that price

Whitenoise Systems? all that alot above is from the overclockers site

www.pcindex.co.uk is where its at

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Originally posted by tu_face don't knock integrated sound cards. gigabyte and asus have wicked integrated sound capabilities! obviously you can get better stand-alone cards, but what the hell do you need one for unless you work in a studio?

/me strokes his gold plated connections on his audigy 2

AMD Athlon "Mobile" XP2500-M Barton 266FSB (Socket A)

Abit NF7 v2.0 nForce2 (Socket A) Motherboard

GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5

ThermalRight SLK-947U (Socket 478 & Socket A) Heatsink

NEC ND3500 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)

OcUK ATI Radeon 9550 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (AGP)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 160GB ATA-100 8MB Cache

Vantec Nexus NXP-201 Fan Controller - Black

Antec SLK3700BQE Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 350W SmartPower PSU

Creative Sound Blaster Live! LS 5.1 Digital

Vantec SF9225L Stealth 92mm fan

Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Cooler

Arctic Cooling Rev.3 VGA Silencer


I can do that for £600, it will be hella quiet, and GUARANTEED to overlcock to AT LEAST 2.2Ghz (XP3200+ speeds), my mobile barton sits comfortably at 2.42Ghz (XP3600+ speeds)

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hehe, mine can overclocked to 2.39 ghz (i think) but i darent, as its an amd 1600 normally (1.3ghz) .

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gareth .. so whitenoise builds comp systems for people? or have i misunderstood?

I build whitenoise systems for ppl, I own http://www.whitenoisesystems.co.uk

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do we get complimentary whitenoise systems?

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arsebandit systems can make u this

SilverStone "TEMJIN" J01B (BLACK) Aluminum Front & SECC Body Tower case
SilverStone 460w active PFC PSU (Titanium black colour), Temp Controlled Fan (22 dBA min)
Pioneer DVR-MCC Black x8 Dual Layer UK OEM
MSI 915P Neo2-Platinum, i915P, ATX, DDDR2-533, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 8Ch Audio, SATA, Raid
520 Intel Pentium® 4 LGA 775 CPU (2.80 Ghz 800FSB) HT 1MB Cache *Retail*
2x 512Mb PC3200 (PC400) DDR Memory (Major) Retail
Creative Labs Audigy LS 5.1 Retail UK
120Gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 (7200rpm,8MB) - SATA

For about £550

But this weekend only offer



OR

You can have this one sitting in my Spare Room

Chaintech Apogee 9BJF
Intel Pentium S478 2.67Ghz
512Mb PC2100 Memory
Gainward GeForce4 128Mb with TV-Out
80Gb IBM IDE HD
40Gb IBM IDE HD
Soundblaster Live Soundcard
Linksys 54Mb G Wireless Card
LG 48 Speed CD-Rom Drive
Sony 10.4.32 CDRW Drive

Hell ill even throw in the Monitor IBM P72 17 inch monster



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Last edited by jamie on Oct-16-2004 at 08:37

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Originally posted by tu_face do we get complimentary whitenoise systems?

when you've been on ta for 3 years you get a free AMD64 3800 with 2gb ram & dvd-rw etc ? sounds like a deal to me (esp as i'd qualify within a couple of months!)

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Originally posted by Ian^ when you've been on ta for 3 years you get a free AMD64 3800 with 2gb ram & dvd-rw etc ? sounds like a deal to me (esp as i'd qualify within a couple of months!)

woot