Im in the process of hunting down the best prices for a new rig, and have found that the 8800 gts 640mb that i want is much cheaper from USA or Canada, even with the postage.
Anyway, the question is, will the card be any different as its from across the pond, obviously not phisically by on things like warenty etc? 

Signed

Intel q6600 (in july)

Corsair xms 800 2x 1gb

8800 gts 640mb of some variety

Asus P5B deluxe wifi 

ThermalTake Tsunami Dream

Corsiar HX620 

so that should all be ok and lovely then?
does anyone else have an opinion?

Thanks for the swift response guys;

Yeh that is the case im going for, ive had a look around on the other big UK sites and there all around £75 unfortunatel.

For an extra £10 i can get a "ThermalTake Toughpower Series Cable Management 700W Active, which gives the extra 100w and the all important modular cabling. 

Ive done a lot of reading  on the GPU side of things and it was a last minute decision to change from a BFG 8800 GTS 320mb OC2 up to the 640 varient just from reading an article saying that the real dx10 games will be quite ram hungry. Not really sure why as im only on a 22" 1680 x 1050 monitor and dont mind gaming on a little less than max settings. Its also a good £70 between the two :D so i think that can chage also.

£947 inc vat

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 4 x 2.4Ghz 8Mb Cache 1066 FSB - £? (will buy July 22)
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi - £120
Corsair XMS6400 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB) 800Mhz Non-ECC - £100
Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT 512mb - £260
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250Gb 16Mb Cache SATAII 300MB/s 8.9ms 7200rpm - OEM - £45
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Black - £75

Corsair HX620 - £97
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - £18
Samsung Lightscribe SATA 18xDVD+/-R/RW/RAM - £23

(revised edt)


Plus windows and a few other bits and pieces it all comes to pretty much dead on £1000
I think ive done OK in my selection, im not planning to ever go SLI, hence the P5B however will probably o/c the processor and upgrade at least to 4GB ram and a new high end graphics card at around September next year, will my PSU be able to handle this?, as id rather future proof it now.


Thanks, any suggestions welcome
Ash