Building new comp. Help/Advice needed.

Yo peeps. Im about to build myself a new pc. Now i've been reading posts on the hardware forum to try and get a good idea of what parts are worth buying atm. I still need some input before making any final decisions. My budget is £1000 or $1990 (If the currency converter got that right even). I'll probably just build a new pc again instead of upgrading this new one, so it might be better to get parts that will proform well even in the long run. These are the parts im thinking about atm, if u lot think there fine or i've made a mistake feel free to mention =P

E6850 Core2 Duo 3.0Ghz, 1333Mhz FSB, 4MB cache, socket 775

Intel cuz i don't trust amd. I noticed the current arguement is duel core vs quad. And that by the time software is written to make full use of quad cores all the current models will be no good at that stage. Most peeps also point at as things are right now duel core seems to give the better proformence.

XFX Geforce 8800 GT / 8800 GT

From the proformence comparision i've seen, XFX Geforce 8800 GT/ 8800 GT seems to be the best value for money. only question is would it be worth it for me to get 2 and go for the sli route? I've also heard that certain chipsets are bugged when it comes to using sli feature.

I'll also get for certain 4GB DDR3 ram, though i don't know what make i'll get yet. I still need suggestions for M/B, Tower, Cpu fan and sound card (This gets lowest priority imo). I live in the uk so it will prolly affect what websites i can use and what parts will be avalable. Any help here will be greatly appricated! Thx all =)

GREAT choices

Go for a NVIDIA 680i mobo if you want cheaper,or 780i if you want longer lasting more expensive. and for CPU fan you could either try Tuniq Tower 120 or Thermalright Ultra 120. from past expirience with both fans, i'd reccomend thermalright

note*(for the thermalright you need to buy a seperate 120 mm fan!!)

Duals don't perform better than quads. I'm getting really sick of hearing this...

If you put a similarly clocked dual and quad against eachother in games they will perform about the same. The reason people are recommending duals over quads is because having 2 more cores is unnecessary for most games (but certainly not all games) and isn't worth the premium at the moment.

Thx footballa. I'll go look up the parts. Any thoughts about getting 2 cards and using sli or not? The 780i m/b is the one i saw someone moan about regarding bugs when using sli. So that be a no no if i wanted sli i suppose.

@tequilasunriser

I stand corrected =P

Duals don't perform better than quads. I'm getting really sick of hearing this...

If you put a similarly clocked dual and quad against eachother in games they will perform about the same. The reason people are recommending duals over quads is because having 2 more cores is unnecessary for most games (but certainly not all games) and isn't worth the premium at the moment.

tequilasunriser

Completely agree with this post! everyone needs to read and understand this.

680i and 780i don't support ddr3 ram, so i'd have to ditch it if i went for them. What about a tower and psu? Any suggestions?D_Knight_Nik

You dont want to get a DDR3 RAM motherboard because by the time DDR3 is worth the money Bloomfield will be the standard cpu which uses a different socket type!

[QUOTE="D_Knight_Nik"]680i and 780i don't support ddr3 ram, so i'd have to ditch it if i went for them. What about a tower and psu? Any suggestions?daytona_178

You dont want to get a DDR3 RAM motherboard because by the time DDR3 is worth the money Bloomfield will be the standard cpu which uses a different socket type!

Seriously? ah, works in my favor since ddr2 is cheaper and so are the m/b's that support it.

[QUOTE="daytona_178"]

[QUOTE="D_Knight_Nik"]680i and 780i don't support ddr3 ram, so i'd have to ditch it if i went for them. What about a tower and psu? Any suggestions?D_Knight_Nik

You dont want to get a DDR3 RAM motherboard because by the time DDR3 is worth the money Bloomfield will be the standard cpu which uses a different socket type!

Seriously? ah, works in my favor since ddr2 is cheaper and so are the m/b's that support it.

Yeah, at the moment the only people who need DDR3 RAM are people who buy extreme edition CPU's and overclock the **** out of them with liquid nitrogen and stuff. Buy DDR3 when they are mainstream and lots cheaper.