ohhhh nice, Il just have a look around.
1. Quad cores are really really cheap so go for the cheaper ones and over clock it to get your money’s worth.
2.9800gt/8800gtx performance increase aren’t substantial enough to warrant the price difference so go for a 8800gtx
3. Get a motherboard that supports FULL two lane 16x pci-e lanes these will only be on the £100 boards or over and make sure they have at least four SATA2 ports.
4. PSU id say stay away from akasa and don’t cheap out on this option as bad capacitors and AC/DC converters ruin your system over a long time and tend not to like spikes, 750w is all you really need. Enermax are the best and I wouldn’t stop recommending them.
5. You could go for a blu-ray reader but I see them as a huge waste of money and just for e-peen, ps3 is the answer for those silly prices.
6. If you’re spending 1k-1.2k you want something you can aprreciate your system on, since the 24"'s are so cheap these days at around the £200 mark I would say go for that size.
7. Cases are more of a personal preference if you don’t need 39 HDD's.
8. HDD's go for a 150gb raptor to run your O/S and buy a 1tb Seagate barracuda for storage as there only around £138 now and 750's are at £117 so it’s a waste not going for a 1tb drive.
9. Mice and keyboard again are personal preference; MX518 mice have stood the test of time well more than anything else.
10. Go for everything sata including the DVDRW/CDRW drive try not to have IDE running on your system as you can turn a lot of crappy controllers off in your BIOS then.
This is just a quick summary and my speeeeling and grAm33r is awful but I hope it helps.
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