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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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And never mind "you don't need that great a graphics card", having one AT ALL might help.
Socket A now?!?! : O
No-one in their right mind would buy Socket A. It's not even a good SktA mobo either : /
No-one in their right mind would buy Socket A. It's not even a good SktA mobo either : /
I only have a 80 gig hard drive and i'm pirating morning, noon and night but i have the sense to back up everything straight away.
Go for the top spec you can when you upgrade otherwise you'll just have to sepend more money evey year. Plus even if your not video editing 1 gig of ram is good to have for most program.
Go for the top spec you can when you upgrade otherwise you'll just have to sepend more money evey year. Plus even if your not video editing 1 gig of ram is good to have for most program.
Marzman wrote:
> If your not bothered about gaming you don't need that great a graphics
> card and if your not video editing there is not much point filling it
> up with ram.
If I know down, it will be primarily for games.
> Why anyone who isn't piratein' dvds needs a 120g h/d is
> beyond me.
I could fill a 120G hard drive quite easily without any warez of any kind.
> Here is where I would start:
>
> 1x AMD SEMPRON 2600+ (1.833GHZ) SCK A CPU RETAIL+FAN
You should now be looking at 64bit, otherwise you'll only end up upgrading again soon.
> 1x MACASE VIRGO II BLACK 350W P4 READY MIDI TOWER
Cheap and nasty PSU. STAY AWAY!
> 1x ASROCK K7VT4A PRO SCKA 8XAGP DDR400+5.1SND +10/100
Again, AGP. PCE-Express would be much better.
> 1x 512MB PC2700 333 DDR DIMM MEMORY MAJOR
Only PC2700. Should be looking at PC3200.
> 1x 80GB MAXTOR 7200RPM IDE HDD ATA133
I'd get through that easily =)
> £164.44 inc vat
He said £400-450 for a reason.
> Only thing is i've heard sempron's play 'catch-up' but the athlon is
> fine
It wont be fine for long. Never get stuff because it's cheap. All it will lead to is an upgrade sooner therefore not saving any money.
> If your not bothered about gaming you don't need that great a graphics
> card and if your not video editing there is not much point filling it
> up with ram.
If I know down, it will be primarily for games.
> Why anyone who isn't piratein' dvds needs a 120g h/d is
> beyond me.
I could fill a 120G hard drive quite easily without any warez of any kind.
> Here is where I would start:
>
> 1x AMD SEMPRON 2600+ (1.833GHZ) SCK A CPU RETAIL+FAN
You should now be looking at 64bit, otherwise you'll only end up upgrading again soon.
> 1x MACASE VIRGO II BLACK 350W P4 READY MIDI TOWER
Cheap and nasty PSU. STAY AWAY!
> 1x ASROCK K7VT4A PRO SCKA 8XAGP DDR400+5.1SND +10/100
Again, AGP. PCE-Express would be much better.
> 1x 512MB PC2700 333 DDR DIMM MEMORY MAJOR
Only PC2700. Should be looking at PC3200.
> 1x 80GB MAXTOR 7200RPM IDE HDD ATA133
I'd get through that easily =)
> £164.44 inc vat
He said £400-450 for a reason.
> Only thing is i've heard sempron's play 'catch-up' but the athlon is
> fine
It wont be fine for long. Never get stuff because it's cheap. All it will lead to is an upgrade sooner therefore not saving any money.
If your not bothered about gaming you don't need that great a graphics card and if your not video editing there is not much point filling it up with ram. Why anyone who isn't piratein' dvds needs a 120g h/d is beyond me.
Here is where I would start:
1x AMD SEMPRON 2600+ (1.833GHZ) SCK A CPU RETAIL+FAN
1x MACASE VIRGO II BLACK 350W P4 READY MIDI TOWER
1x ASROCK K7VT4A PRO SCKA 8XAGP DDR400+5.1SND +10/100
1x 512MB PC2700 333 DDR DIMM MEMORY MAJOR
1x 80GB MAXTOR 7200RPM IDE HDD ATA133
£164.44 inc vat
Only thing is i've heard sempron's play 'catch-up' but the athlon is fine
Here is where I would start:
1x AMD SEMPRON 2600+ (1.833GHZ) SCK A CPU RETAIL+FAN
1x MACASE VIRGO II BLACK 350W P4 READY MIDI TOWER
1x ASROCK K7VT4A PRO SCKA 8XAGP DDR400+5.1SND +10/100
1x 512MB PC2700 333 DDR DIMM MEMORY MAJOR
1x 80GB MAXTOR 7200RPM IDE HDD ATA133
£164.44 inc vat
Only thing is i've heard sempron's play 'catch-up' but the athlon is fine
Yeah, upgrade the graphics and overclock the CPU.
monkey_man wrote:
> That looks like a good spec...is it?
>
> Overclockers
It's a pretty decent spec. If I was going to spend more anywhere it'd be on the graphics card rather than the CPU. That X800 is roughly equivalent to Geforce 6600GT (faster in some cases, slower in others) but it's not particularly great. Given the choice I'd take the 6600GT, but the X800 was cheaper.
> That looks like a good spec...is it?
>
> Overclockers
It's a pretty decent spec. If I was going to spend more anywhere it'd be on the graphics card rather than the CPU. That X800 is roughly equivalent to Geforce 6600GT (faster in some cases, slower in others) but it's not particularly great. Given the choice I'd take the 6600GT, but the X800 was cheaper.
If you own a pirate version of windows you get a discount ^_^
Don't forget to budget for the OS...
It's pretty good, but if you have a bit more money an increase in CPU would be a good idea.
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