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Not sure why you would need water-cooling. I am in the middle of buying a new PC, it wont really be for gaming, but it will be extremely capable and will cost around £1400. I'll list my individual components and explain why im going for them:

Processor:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 90nm:



I chose this processor because it outperforms nearly every other processor out there, including the high spec Intel P4's. Also, this is the San Diego variance which has SSE3 technology to make it faster again. Its 90nm, so it runs cooler than the 130nm equivalent. Its cheaper at £350 inc VAT than that of the P4's ranging from £410 inc VAT for the 3.8GHz one, to much more for the 3.46GHz EE processor. Here's an idea of it on the performance processor scale:



Motherboard:
Gigabyte K8NF-9 nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard:



I chose this motherboard to match the Socket 939 AMD chip above. It costs £72 and has everything you'd need in a board.

Memory:
Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC5300 667MHz Ballistix Dual Channel Kit



New DDR2 memory at PC5300 667MHz, so it will be fast. Its also dual channel and is a good make, and the cost is only £176

Case:
OcUK Value Fusion Case



The case is £60 and looks awesome. It has loads of room in it and ill be adding in Coolermaster dynamic detector (£12) for extra fan controls as shown below.



I'll also be adding this Coolermaster fan system (£26) in between my two DVD Writers, just to give a bit of added cooling:



Power Supply:
Akasa Ultra Quiet 400W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.0 PSU



Its a decent power supply running at 18db of noise. I was originally going to get a 460W power supply, but 400W is probably more than enough and only costs £46

Graphics Card:
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X800 ICEQII TURBO 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express)



Its a decent ATI x800 256MB graphics card with a 398MHz processor. It uses 256bit Quad Channel GDDR3 Memory at 910MHz. It costs £179

Hard Disk Drive:
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6B250SO SATA 16MB Cache



Nothing fancy, a decent 7,200rpm 250GB only costing £99. Its fast SATA and has a good 16MB cache.

DVD Writers:
Pioneer DVR-109XL 16 x 16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter Ltd Edit Aliminium



I'll probably have two of these running in it, or else ill just get the one of them. A great value DVD writer with a cool look - cant beat the DVR109 and its one in a long range of Pioneer writers ive owned. Costs £45

Monitor:
Benq FP91E 19" LCD Monitor - Silver



Its a top monitor, ok not the most expensive one around, but with a contrast ratio of 1000:1, 8ms response time and DVI input, it surely has to be the best value one.

Mouse/Keyboard:
Logitech Cordless Optical Desktop Rechargeable Black/Silver



Its a decent cordless desktop muse and keyboard. Not broadband, and probably not as good as the £80+ big brother ones, but in my opinion, good value for what you get.

Total cost is around £1400

Chris

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