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£400 to £450, anyway.
Ready built, separate components, whatever, with a 17inch LCD screen.
Thank ye
Ready built, separate components, whatever, with a 17inch LCD screen.
Thank ye
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gerrid wrote:
> down, I suggest you check out Dell (I know I know)
Nothing wrong with a Dell, they make pretty good machines and have good customer service. They're the first company I reccomend to anyone who is thinking of getting a pre-made machine.
That or a Mac. *runs*
> down, I suggest you check out Dell (I know I know)
Nothing wrong with a Dell, they make pretty good machines and have good customer service. They're the first company I reccomend to anyone who is thinking of getting a pre-made machine.
That or a Mac. *runs*
Most "build your own computer!" people seem to ridicule people who buy Dells, but they're pretty decent machines, like you say, especially if you don't want to build it yourself. I also reccommend Evesham and Mesh.
I used to hate Dell, i'm not sure why but then i had a butchers at their prices and specs and i'm getting my parents to get their next computer from there.
You get a no hassle PC for a bloody good price.
You get a no hassle PC for a bloody good price.
See, I don't really want to play games with absolutely amazing graphics - I just want to be able to play them.
Like I don't want something like m_m's, but something like chipp's is just pointless. So graphics card isn't that important.
Does that change your suggestions at all?
Like I don't want something like m_m's, but something like chipp's is just pointless. So graphics card isn't that important.
Does that change your suggestions at all?
down wrote:
> See, I don't really want to play games with absolutely amazing
> graphics - I just want to be able to play them.
>
> Like I don't want something like m_m's, but something like chipp's is
> just pointless. So graphics card isn't that important.
>
> Does that change your suggestions at all?
No. I still reckon buying low-spec parts and building a machine is a good idea. Mines a Athlon 1.6ghz, 256mb ram, 128mb Nvida graphics, 40gig hard drive and it cost less than £200 to build last summer. I suppose when you come from lesser machines to newer comps you appreciate how they really work and realise a machine like mine can graphic edit, web design and play games as well as a 'better' high street machine. Honestly I'd use that £400 for a holiday [URL]http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=33731[/URL]
> See, I don't really want to play games with absolutely amazing
> graphics - I just want to be able to play them.
>
> Like I don't want something like m_m's, but something like chipp's is
> just pointless. So graphics card isn't that important.
>
> Does that change your suggestions at all?
No. I still reckon buying low-spec parts and building a machine is a good idea. Mines a Athlon 1.6ghz, 256mb ram, 128mb Nvida graphics, 40gig hard drive and it cost less than £200 to build last summer. I suppose when you come from lesser machines to newer comps you appreciate how they really work and realise a machine like mine can graphic edit, web design and play games as well as a 'better' high street machine. Honestly I'd use that £400 for a holiday [URL]http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=33731[/URL]
Sorry I haven't had time to read the below posts. He's my suggestion:
* Mobo = A8N-SLI (Not Deluxe Version) £84.34
* Graphics = Gigabyte 6600GT 'GV-NX66T128VP' Turbo Force £117.48
* Cosair 'VS1GBKIT400' PC3200 2x512MB CAS2.5 £67.21
* Harddrive = Maxtor Diamondmax Plus9 SATA 80GB £39.10
* Keeping original case/keyboard/mouse/speakers/CD-Drive? £Unknown
* Sound Card = Built-in to the A8N-SLI £FREE
* Athlon 64 3500+ (£174.95)
* P&P = £6
Prices taken from ****
Total = 489.08
- That memory at that price is amazing in my opinion, so cutting down to save wont save you that much.
- You could go slightly lower with the PCIe graphics card I think, and chop off £10-15. Not sure what alternative.
- Stick with the 3500+ for a performance/budget PC.
- Harddrive has tons of performance, and at that price it's flawless (or keep your old one and save the £40?).
- A speedy motherboard that's cheaper than the Deluxe version. Its price is stuck between the performance end and slightly cheap end for a SLI board (but you can forget about SLI and just enjoy the PCIe).
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot about the monitor you wanted!!! Maybe get a cheaper mobo, keep with my ram suggestion and get cheaper Nvidia PCIe card (Aopen GF 6200 128mb PCI-E D/VO £58.53), and then maybe if you can afford it the monitor.
* Mobo = A8N-SLI (Not Deluxe Version) £84.34
* Graphics = Gigabyte 6600GT 'GV-NX66T128VP' Turbo Force £117.48
* Cosair 'VS1GBKIT400' PC3200 2x512MB CAS2.5 £67.21
* Harddrive = Maxtor Diamondmax Plus9 SATA 80GB £39.10
* Keeping original case/keyboard/mouse/speakers/CD-Drive? £Unknown
* Sound Card = Built-in to the A8N-SLI £FREE
* Athlon 64 3500+ (£174.95)
* P&P = £6
Prices taken from ****
Total = 489.08
- That memory at that price is amazing in my opinion, so cutting down to save wont save you that much.
- You could go slightly lower with the PCIe graphics card I think, and chop off £10-15. Not sure what alternative.
- Stick with the 3500+ for a performance/budget PC.
- Harddrive has tons of performance, and at that price it's flawless (or keep your old one and save the £40?).
- A speedy motherboard that's cheaper than the Deluxe version. Its price is stuck between the performance end and slightly cheap end for a SLI board (but you can forget about SLI and just enjoy the PCIe).
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot about the monitor you wanted!!! Maybe get a cheaper mobo, keep with my ram suggestion and get cheaper Nvidia PCIe card (Aopen GF 6200 128mb PCI-E D/VO £58.53), and then maybe if you can afford it the monitor.
down wrote:
> See, I don't really want to play games with absolutely amazing
> graphics - I just want to be able to play them.
>
> Like I don't want something like m_m's, but something like chipp's is
> just pointless. So graphics card isn't that important.
>
> Does that change your suggestions at all?
Nope. That X800 isn't a great card. In terms of BF2 you'd probably be looking at medium settings with one or two things on high, and when you look at FEAR you can see how fast mid-range graphics cards go out of date. So it's basically what you're asking for - it'll play games but not at uber high settings with 4xAA.
And ignore Marzman, he's telling you to build a system on a platform that's been dead for (more than?) a year.
> See, I don't really want to play games with absolutely amazing
> graphics - I just want to be able to play them.
>
> Like I don't want something like m_m's, but something like chipp's is
> just pointless. So graphics card isn't that important.
>
> Does that change your suggestions at all?
Nope. That X800 isn't a great card. In terms of BF2 you'd probably be looking at medium settings with one or two things on high, and when you look at FEAR you can see how fast mid-range graphics cards go out of date. So it's basically what you're asking for - it'll play games but not at uber high settings with 4xAA.
And ignore Marzman, he's telling you to build a system on a platform that's been dead for (more than?) a year.
Yeah... there's a reason I said £400 to £450, and not £200.
down wrote:
> Yeah... there's a reason I said £400 to £450, and not
> £200.
Ah-well, I was happy to spend less on a PC to get an xbox
> Yeah... there's a reason I said £400 to £450, and not
> £200.
Ah-well, I was happy to spend less on a PC to get an xbox
Marzman wrote:
> down wrote:
> Yeah... there's a reason I said £400 to £450, and not
> £200.
>
> Ah-well, I was happy to spend less on a PC to get an xbox
I would have just spent the money on getting a much better PC than an Xbox.
He was also asking for a pc and not both, so why you specced the cheapest, most useless system you could possibly spec, I'll never know.
I have 4 PC's in my house, 2 of which are very similar.
Athlon 2400+, 1Gb Ram, (1 with 9800, the other with 9600) and they both only run the latest games at medium/sometimes high settings. Now, these are both much better than the system you specced (as they actually have graphics cards/ decent motherboards etc :P) so I hardly see how the system you specced could possibly play new games at anything other than low settings.
In conclusion I'd say that you have no idea what you're talking about.
> down wrote:
> Yeah... there's a reason I said £400 to £450, and not
> £200.
>
> Ah-well, I was happy to spend less on a PC to get an xbox
I would have just spent the money on getting a much better PC than an Xbox.
He was also asking for a pc and not both, so why you specced the cheapest, most useless system you could possibly spec, I'll never know.
I have 4 PC's in my house, 2 of which are very similar.
Athlon 2400+, 1Gb Ram, (1 with 9800, the other with 9600) and they both only run the latest games at medium/sometimes high settings. Now, these are both much better than the system you specced (as they actually have graphics cards/ decent motherboards etc :P) so I hardly see how the system you specced could possibly play new games at anything other than low settings.
In conclusion I'd say that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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