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Looking for some help and advice so hopefully some of you can lend some help.
My dads wants to upgrade his PC, he wants a new motherboard, graphics card, processor and RAM.
Just looking for suggestions as what might be best to buy and where to get it from.
Not looking for the best you can buy but fairly decent, graphics card would need to allow him to play some decent games (Like doom3 etc)
Cheers :0)
My dads wants to upgrade his PC, he wants a new motherboard, graphics card, processor and RAM.
Just looking for suggestions as what might be best to buy and where to get it from.
Not looking for the best you can buy but fairly decent, graphics card would need to allow him to play some decent games (Like doom3 etc)
Cheers :0)
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Looking for some help and advice so hopefully some of you can lend some help.
My dads wants to upgrade his PC, he wants a new motherboard, graphics card, processor and RAM.
Just looking for suggestions as what might be best to buy and where to get it from.
Not looking for the best you can buy but fairly decent, graphics card would need to allow him to play some decent games (Like doom3 etc)
Cheers :0)
My dads wants to upgrade his PC, he wants a new motherboard, graphics card, processor and RAM.
Just looking for suggestions as what might be best to buy and where to get it from.
Not looking for the best you can buy but fairly decent, graphics card would need to allow him to play some decent games (Like doom3 etc)
Cheers :0)
Do you have a budget in mind?
Well as cheap as possible would be good :-)
Was quoted about £500 from a guy my dad knows for most of what he was looking for but I guess the net might be cheaper and I wanted to see what people on here came up with to give us a better idea what to go for.
Was quoted about £500 from a guy my dad knows for most of what he was looking for but I guess the net might be cheaper and I wanted to see what people on here came up with to give us a better idea what to go for.
Could get a spanky new good spec PC for that much.
How much RAM does he need? AMD or Intel?
He was going to go with a pentium 4 but to be honest I don't think he is really too bothered, depends whats better value at the time of buying I guess.
Well this is what I'd go for which is within his budget:
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Corsair Ram is decent, good CPU/Fan combo plus a decent motherboard.
I'd then use the remaining Cash for another stick of that Corsair Ram and a 9800 Pro.
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Corsair Ram is decent, good CPU/Fan combo plus a decent motherboard.
I'd then use the remaining Cash for another stick of that Corsair Ram and a 9800 Pro.
Has he considered the effect all this new hardware will have on his old power supply?
Yeah, already bought a new one.
He's been buying the odd part for a while now, got another 120Gb hard disk the other day and a power supply.
I'll get a list from him of the stuff he had been looking at to see what you guys think.
spike I'll show him that link and see what he thinks - cheers
He's been buying the odd part for a while now, got another 120Gb hard disk the other day and a power supply.
I'll get a list from him of the stuff he had been looking at to see what you guys think.
spike I'll show him that link and see what he thinks - cheers
Right graphics cards.
Should he be going for a radeon 9800 pro or would you recommend something else?
He wants to be able to play Far Cry and Doom3 at a reasonable standard and also not have to upgrade again for a good while when newer games come out.
Should he be going for a radeon 9800 pro or would you recommend something else?
He wants to be able to play Far Cry and Doom3 at a reasonable standard and also not have to upgrade again for a good while when newer games come out.
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