New Rig

I've decide to buy a new rig here is my AMD/Intel Rig.

Intel

CoolerMaster Stacker STC-T01 - Black Trim
Intel Pentium 4 830 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 3.0GHz (800FSB)
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 200GB 6L200M0 SATA 8MB Cache*2 £107.00
Asus P5ND2 SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi (LGA775)
OcUK GeForce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI
Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX
ThermalRight XP-120
Delta 120mm Focussed Flow Fan
Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Black UV
AOpen DUW1608 Chameleon 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter inc. Ivory/Black/Silver Bezels
AOpen DVD-1648 Chameleon 16x DVD-ROM inc. Ivory/Black/Silver Bezels - Retail (CD-005-AO)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition -
VAT £189.33
Total £1,271.18


AMD

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-011-DF)
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC4400 Ultra Platinum CAS3 (GL1G4400DC) (MY-027-GL)
ThermalRight XP-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-017-TR)
Delta 120mm Focussed Flow Fan (EHE) (FG-003-DE)
OcUK GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-032-OK*2
CoolerMaster Stacker STC-T01 - Silver Trim (No PSU) (CA-054-CM)
AOpen DUW1608 Chameleon 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter inc. Ivory/Black/Silver Bezels - Retail (CD-007-AO
AOpen DVD-1648 Chameleon 16x DVD-ROM inc. Ivory/Black/Silver Bezels - Retail (CD-005-AO)
Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU (CA-021-EN
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 200GB 6L200M0 SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-027-MD)*2


VAT £206.96
Total £1,389.56

Which one would you choose? and why?

okay, go amd dualcore(3800+ manchester oced = good), get a powerstream 520 instead, and get the 16mb cache version of the diamondmax10.

-1cem4n

But im on kinda a budget is there anyway i could make saves on these rigs?

To save Money,

If you want sli and want to save money go with the epox 9npa3 + SLI performs almost as good as dfi but a good bit cheaper.

Go with a forton Blue storm Power Supply AX500

I would go with a 3800 but i am hearing good things about the optetrons and would look at the 3700 equiv. as it is cheaper and tends to clock better.

I would look into 2 x 1gig of ram as well.

You dont need a DVD Rom if you are getting a burner.

I could offer more help but I dont know europe prices

I think im going to go with the second one even though Dual core would be nice

id tweek 2 so you could fit a dual core in