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So I’m new to all this inside of the pc stuff so i have been browsing about with some help from friends and i came up with this: (remember i am new and i don’t have that much money) but this little bundle is looking real good at the moment..

Samsung Samtron 78E 17" CRT Monitor - Black (MO-006-ST) £72.03
(just wanted a cheap monitor to tie me over till i can afford a good one (about 2009 :P))

OcUK ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (XR98-C3) (GX-005-OK) £119.95
(spikecast recommended this plus it has free hit man contracts, so all's good.)

PC kit - Intel Celeron 2.4GHz, 256MB RAM, DVD-R/RW, 120GB £320.00
(This is the big mamma)

Creative Desktop 6000 - Retail (KB-003-CL) £20.80
(cheapest keyboard and mouse on the website, though they'd also just tie me over)

So, any ideas?

AMD Athlon 64 3000 Newcastle 130nm (Socket 754) - Retail (CP-070-AM) £100
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_64_Bit.html[/URL]

DFI LanParty UT nF3 250Gb (Socket 754) Motherboard (MB-010-DF) £70
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/LanParty_amd_motherboards.html[/URL]

GeIL 512MB PC3200 Golden Value CAS2.5 (GD3200-512V) (MY-009-GL) £59
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/GeIL_Value.html[/URL]

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB 6Y160PO ATA-133 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-012-MD) £56
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/maxtor_ide.html[/URL]

AOpen DUW1608 Chameleon 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter inc. Ivory/Black/Silver Bezels - Retail (CD-007-AO) £49
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/DVD_RW_Drives.html[/URL]

I suggest this lot instead of what you have down as a PC Kit. £14 more, but a hell of a lot better performance, especially for games. Faster more powerful processor, which can be overclocked with the fantastic motherboard. Twice as much RAM, and 40 GB extra hard disk space.

You're welcome.

Got a budget you can give us?

Better floating point unit, does more work per cycle. Shorter pipeline too, so when the branch prediction goes wrong, there is less to flush. Oh.. in simple terms. They give better performance in games. More frames per second. Cheaper too, and cooler running.

Why?

Elaborate, please.

If you want to play games, Athlon 64s are the way to go.

On a budget, try switching to a AMD athlon budget, as they're more powerful than a Celeron, and try and push for 512MB of decent RAM (whcih you can get for about £60 if you look around, especially at special offers.) Hint Hint... look at www.overclockers.co.uk The parts are priced very competetively, and they have Geil Value (good) ram on offer right now til the coming thurs...

Creepy wrote:
> No i meant it was the most expensive. for f**k sake you're meant to be
> helping, tw@ts. Some people don’t do this EVERYDAY and fap over pc
> parts. Grow up or don’t f**king post.

I am helping. I was just telling you that Celerons aren't good and that 256mb isn't a lot of RAM.

My uncle is going to help me out aswell. So i should be ok now with all the info you've given. Thanks for the help.

Creppy, have you thought about Shuttle PC's? My 2.8P4 with 512Mb RAM runs All the latest games, could be just what you need. And the Mobo is included in the case.

Check out Kustompcs.co.uk. The guy there, Graeme, is really helpful and got me the best for my money.

They're not beasts, but they run everything you need.

Umm, sorry if it's not too much help, I don't er... Have too much experience, I've only built a PC twice, however I've just done my second build, with a similiarly tight budget.

Mind you, I saved £120 on the card, using my old Radeon 9600XT, and buffed up my RAM to 1GB.