[Upgrade] AMD X2 Route

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tyRion

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Ok, I'm sending in an order for an upgrade this friday and I was wondering if ye could lend me some advice about what to get.

My budget is about E1,000-E1,500 ($1,200-$1,800 or £700-£1,000) But i already have a sound setup, a case and Many monitors

I have a bit planned but i need more. I've gotta get if from one site as I'm from Ireland and will get the VAT off on Irish stores and Komplett are the best Irish website

To start with I'm going with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

Nex up I have to pick a graphics card for as little as posible but it should have VIVO so I've come up with a list of 3


I need advice on HDD[about 200Gigs in Raid1 (Mirrored) SATA2], Mobo, 2Gigs of RAM, DVD burner, TV tuner card, CPU Fan [Zalman] and PSU. I've done a bit of looking but I havent been keeping up with Tech specs latley.

I'm not a mad gamer, The PCs main use shall be for Photoshop, coding and non-pro Video/sound editing. I would like it to be able to stand up to the likes of HL2 and Far-Cry

In terms of Mobo, it dosent need a sound card as I have an Audigy2 and the onboard shall be disabled. Raid1 and SATA2 are required. A Paralel Port shall be required (20x4 LCD screen) also

Cheers
 
You should take a look at Seasonic S12 Series (high efficiency), from what I've heard they're very good power supplies.

200GB hard drive I would go with isnt there so i don't know. I'd probably go with samsung or western digital, since maxtor is getting bought by seagate in the near future (so you dont want to have to worry about warranty).

For a heatsink, the heatsink i would go with is not there as well (thermalright xp-120)

No idea for the motherboard, haven't really checked out any pci-e

once you get a motherboard head over to corsairs website and do their memory matcher and it'll find the most compatible memory for your motherboard

tv tuner and pvr i'm not sure

...Dan
 
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