Building a Budget Pc

[huijifuiji]

This pc is budget.. I'm aiming to spend £300, no higher. I'll be playing a few games.. Mainly World of warcraft, Cs:s etc
Other uses will including basic thing such as word processing etc
I need help deciding on a motherboard.. and confirmation that these parts will work together (First time builder)

Heres what i have so far:

Case
EV Silver Mid Tower Gaming Case with Massive 14cm Front Fan - No PSU


http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134797


PSU -

Antec Basiq Power 550W PSU - 6x SATA 2x PCI-E 20+4pin ATX12V 4/8pin.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/114929

Processor:

AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+



http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135662

Hard disk

Excelstor ESJ8160SR-2 160GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200RPM 8MB Cache - OEM

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124504

RAM

OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Gold GX XTC CL5 DUAL CHANNEL

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/114728

Cd/DVD Drive

Sony DRU-190S 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-AM Serial ATA

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142274




Graphic card:

XFX 9600GT 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI HDCP HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148012/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended


Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 690V Socket AM2


http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132272

The motherboard i have a query. Will the PCI-e x16 slot run at the full x16? It's just i've seen motherboards that say they're a x16 but run at x8 which seems odd.

Also is it worth choosing this motherboard instead?

http://www.ciao.co.uk/ASRock_ALiveXFire_eSATA2_motherboard_ATX_480X_CrossFire__6826122

My only concern about this motherboard is however that i won't be able to take advantage of SLi in the future or can i ?



Any other advice will be appreciated

 

[auscanzukus]

Go with Gigabyte.

Clarification: from what I've seen, there are 2 scenarios where the PCI-E is x8.

1) It's the 2nd PCI-E slot in Crossfire/SLI. If you plug a single gpu in this slot and no other, it will run at x16.

2) A mobo that does AGP & PCI-E. Asrock is known for making such mobos. The PCI-E will be x8 max.