[seldarine]

well Liam-Wabbit your system is nicely specced for your enforced budget but that is a budget system.

I believe the thread host would be far better supplying his brother with a high specced conroe system as the price/performance ratio of the E6600 ship he specified is well above that of the AMD 4200 in your system and will be future proofed for quite abit longer.

[seldarine]

k, the 975x bad axe MB you selected is a good board but not yet available in the UK but should be soon, the gigabyte is a very good board also but more suited to the lower end conroe chips.

RAM wise the best choice is this GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel. This ram performs as good if not better than comparable specced g.skill or corsair ram and is actually cheaper at moment.

PSU wise this is what i advise for this system: Seasonic S12 500W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-001-SS)

for your optical drives i recommend either samsung or lite-on drives to match your case colour.

Go for the ATI GFX card as currently the only supported dual GFX card chipsets for conroe are crossfire compatible so there is another upgrade path for more performance in the future.

Case-wise i would not go for a gaming type case as these are generally quite noisy but instead i woudl reccommend this fantastic case: Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case

For the HDD this series are currently the best performers out apart from 10k rpm raptors and are also very quiet: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400GB ST3400620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM (HD-083-SE)

I hope this is of some help for you, all these items can be purchased from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ which has pretty much the cheapest component prices and the best selection of quality hardware in the UK.

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