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I am looking in to building a new system based on the following;

Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P AMD AM3 790FX ATX £129.94

AMD PHENOM II X4 965 AM3 BLACK EDITION £155.19

ATi Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E £122.95

Antec PSU EarthWatts 650W 80+ EPS12v 2.91 £65.99

The Antec has three 12V rails compared to the Corsair TX650 which is £5 more and has one. Is the Corsair worth an extra £5?

I also wanted some recommendations for some decent DDR3 1600MHz RAM around £70-80.

Any comments or better prices welcome, thanks.

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The Corsair does tend to get better reviews than the EA, but both are solid. Also I would drop down to a 955, drop down to a GX if you're keeping that GPU - if you had two, the performance hit would be negligible, or possibly upgrade the GPU depending on your res.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ild-advice

Edit: oh and here's some RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820146871

Message edited by jbakerlent on 10-20-2009 at 09:02:26 PM

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