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    Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

    I will look into these things that have been mentioned.

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    Well the speakers don't seem horrible, and I think Cambridge Soundworks makes some of the Creative Labs speaker systems. This is a review of the Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers. They seem ok for games and watching movies on your pc, but not that good for music. It is worth checking out what Altec Lansing has to offer. Speakers are something you should listen to before buying if possible.

    Watch out for that onboard audio. Quite often they are cpu hogs because they don't have a very powerful hardward sound chip. I don't know if that's the case with that motherboard. Turtle Beach makes good quality soundcards, although it looks like their selection is limited to two cards right now, but one is a 7.1 card.

    A 360W power supply may not be powerful enough for a typical computer system of today.
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    I am going to change the speakers to normal simple things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Doctor
    I am going to change the speakers to normal simple things.
    Good idea.
    Its pointless to have many small cheap and poor quality speakers instead of fewer and better quality units.

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    I have looked around on another website and have updated the system. The main changes are a less powerful CPU and graphics card.

    Abit AN8 32X NF4 SLi Socket 939 2x PCI-E SLi / NF4 / Gb LAN / SATA(II) RAID / DUAL CH DDR / 7.1CH AUDIO / FIREWIRE / ATX MOTHERBOARD
    £115.00

    Aspire Discovery Silver No psu 4 x 5.25" / 2 x 3.5" / 4x3.5 Standard ATX / Baby AT / Micro ATX Front Usb 2.0 and Firewire 2x
    £61.10 (might change this, I look terrible)

    Samsung 16x DVD-ROM Drive BEIGE
    £12.75 inc

    AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 512K Retail Socket 939
    £125

    Mitsumi Floppy + Card Reader Beige
    £12.56 inc

    Gainward Bliss 7900GT PCX 256MB PCI-E, DDR3 TV out "Golden Sample" Mfr# 471846200-7951
    £214.97

    300GB Maxtor D/Max +10 SATA2 [16MB] 6V300F0
    £68.09 inc

    1GB PC3200 Elixir DDR SDRAM DDR 400 M2U1G64DS8HB1G-5T
    £55.80 inc X2

    19" Hanns-G HC194DP TFT - 8ms- DVI 3 Year Warranty
    £139.81 inc
    OR
    Samsung 19" LCD Syncmaster 930BF TCO-99 Monitor, DVI-D, D-sub, 4ms
    £219.00

    Fortron/Source Powersupply ATX 550W, Bulk, 120mm, SATA, 20+4pin, EPS12V
    £76.00

    It still needs speakers and software.

    About the graphics card, it is SLi, so I am correct in thinking that I can add another one of same type when I need to?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Doctor

    Samsung 19" LCD Syncmaster 930BF TCO-99 Monitor, DVI-D, D-sub, 4ms
    £219.00

    About the graphics card, it is SLi, so I am correct in thinking that I can add another one of same type when I need to?
    Tomshardware.com did a big review of 19' LCD screens. It said the Samsung 930B had "lackluster performance". You might want to read up on it. For my part, I'm still pushing Viewsonic VX922, What kind of a price can you get on that?

    If your MB is an SLI MB, and your video card can run SLI, then you can have a second as long as it it exactly the same card.
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    What kind of a price can you get on that?
    £216 to £252. I might go for that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
    Tomshardware.com did a big review of 19' LCD screens. It said the Samsung 930B had "lackluster performance". You might want to read up on it. For my part, I'm still pushing Viewsonic VX922, What kind of a price can you get on that?
    I agree about Samsung 930BF. That's why I wrote Samsung 940BF. It is better and newer model. Much better. It's just little expensive than 930BF but it worth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Doctor
    About the graphics card, it is SLi, so I am correct in thinking that I can add another one of same type when I need to?

    Why you need SLi system? Next year, for the less money you will can buy much better and faster graphics card.

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    Will the system actually work?
    Who knows that? You will find out that when you start to assembly.
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    Why you need SLi system?
    To tell you the truth, I have absolutly no idea.

    Next year, for the less money you will can buy much better and faster graphics card.
    I need to build this PC in about 2 months.
    Last edited by The_Doctor; 08-01-2006 at 16:29.

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