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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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Marzman wrote:
> Don't really care what you think but he said 'play games'. Nothing
> about the latest and plus mine runs everything I throw at it
Try "throwing" something new at it.
> Don't really care what you think but he said 'play games'. Nothing
> about the latest and plus mine runs everything I throw at it
Try "throwing" something new at it.
down plays BF2. I know he does because I've played with him several times. Therefore I tried to spec a computer for him that would run it (and similar games) fairly well without costing a bomb.
Damarus wrote:
> In conclusion I'd say that you have no idea what you're talking
> about.
Don't really care what you think but he said 'play games'. Nothing about the latest and plus mine runs everything I throw at it and when your racing the 2004 formula 1 season whilst sitting on the sofa in front of the TV you don't care weither your mobo is the latest.
> In conclusion I'd say that you have no idea what you're talking
> about.
Don't really care what you think but he said 'play games'. Nothing about the latest and plus mine runs everything I throw at it and when your racing the 2004 formula 1 season whilst sitting on the sofa in front of the TV you don't care weither your mobo is the latest.
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.
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
Yeah... there's a reason I said £400 to £450, and not £200.
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.
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?
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]
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?
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