Gaming Computer - £1800 to play around with ($3371)

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Would 2 of these not be better? or would I only need one. What you think?

Moja

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Lemme re-phrase that, what graphics card or dual gfx cards would you pick if there were no price limitations?
 
I would recommend abit differet

AMD Athlon 64 4000 (Socket 939) £493.44
MSI K8N Neo4 Diamond nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard £152.69
Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200C2 Pro TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 £170.32
MSI NX6800-TD256E GeForce 6800 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) x2 £446.38
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200GB SATA 8MB Cache £82.19
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache £140.88
Sunbeam Transformer Gaming ATX Case - Blue £76.32
Antec TrueBlue 480W PSU £76.32
Akasa AK174CB-4BLB 120mm Blue LED fan 2 £23.38

total £1,661.92 plus shipping. Now this leaves money for a decent sound setup aswel as bits and peices like keyboard and laser mouse, artic silver 5 etc.

The reason ive got rid of the fx55 is i think the extra performance over the 4000 is not worth the extra cash and a sli 6800 would perform at better as it is a gaming machine. These prices are all from www.overclockers.co.uk and ive had no problems ordering with my debit card from them and have done so many times. BUT if i was you i would really look into other sites aswel because im finding www.scan.co.uk abit cheaper but it does not carry the range of parts you will want so consinder ordering from the 2 places. If you can possible get abit more cash the only way i would guess at improving this would be to up the graphics cards to 6800GTs but this is upto you becase it is easily and extra 100-150 but thats your choice.

Hope this helps
 
Are the HeatSink's that come with the CPU genrally speaking not good?
They will get the job done, however seperately sold heatsinks are generally a lot better than the generic ones which come with your CPU.
 
go with a better graphics card 6600gt pci-e is good but will soon be too slow i think u should go witha 6800gt agp or pci-e or a radeon x850xt agp or pci-e.
 
isnt 1 6800GT better than 2 6600 GT's in SLI?
why not get an 6800GT and save for the other, or if you have enough case go for 2 6800GT's and improve your performance by a LOT?
 
Actually a 6800gt will out preform 2 6600gt's in SLI, but 6800gt pci express are in very short supply right now.
 
2 6800gt's would be the best :p anyway, i would not recomend buying from scan.co.uk, as one of my friends had some trouble with a couple of parts, and they were not very effective with their returns, leaving him without a pc for about a month.
 
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