Im trying to get the most out of £1500 for a friend. He mainly plays EvE and COD4. Hed also like it as silent as possible (within budget). This is what I have so far:
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz Retail Boxed Processor - £159.99
Seems to be the top one before the price jump - will this be a bottleneck? Any benefit or Quad core at lower clock speeds?
Cooler:
Akasa AK-925 Revo, Dual Fluid ThermoDynamic Cooler - £41.13
Silent and effective
CASE:
NZXT Hush Black Silent Case - £61.09
Silent and good looking for a reasonable price tag
RAM:
OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory - £70.72
Amazing value, 2x2Gb to leave room for expansion.
HDD:
Two Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drives - £117.36
To go in a RAID 0 array for the OS - storage will be external where needed
GFX: Two
Nvidia 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Cards - £559.99
Lowest price 8800GTXs I could find. Any reason I should try and save £ to get more costly brands?
MB:
UPDATEDAsus STRIKER EXTREME 680I Motherboard - £171.79
Pretty costy but seems to be one of the top performing SLI boards - Cheers to Walrus for the pointer
Optical:
Optiarc AD-7200S DVD±RW/DL/RAM Internal SATA Bare Black Drive - £15.44
Cheap and Chearful - any such thing as a silend DVD drive?
PSU:
ZM750-HP Dual Heatpipe Cooled 750W Modular PSU - £99.99
Quiet and hopefully sufficient
Monitor:
Acer AL2416WB 24" TFT Monitor Widescreen 1920x1200 - £200.05
Cheapest 24" monitor. Can 1920x1200 do full 1080 HD - can never remember
PhysX:
BFG Ageia PhysX Accelerator Retail box - £94.55
Hed like a PhysX card - it is really worth it of will the real life gain by better spend elsewhere - CPU/GPU? Do any game actually support this?
Total: £1499.74
Any comments appriciated. He would like it to be watercooled too but imo its too costly.
EDIT: Also apologies for it not being priced on Tekheads - I was doing it there but the lack of 8800GTXs < £280 shifted me over.