Budget components £350 max??

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My clan mate is feeling the lag on BF:BC2 beta. I know it's a beta but his current system is really bad, penttium dual core, 2 gb ram.

He already has a GTX250 and a decent PSU, he already owns Win7.

I had specced him:

AMD PII 955 - £120
Asus 785G - £58
4 GB DDR3 GeiL - £88
Asus 300 case - £42

He pretty much will solely be playing BF:BC2 for the next 2 odd years :)

He is running a 19" monitor, I assume its 1440 x 900? He doesn't know lol.

He will not be overclocking and will use the stock cooler, AMD or Intel doesn't matter.

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Be careful when you get the motherboard and make sure you get one which takes DDR3 and not DDR2.

I assume you are looking at the Asus M4A785-M?? This uses DDR2.

Edit!! Realised it is the Asus M4A78LT-M LE which uses DDR3!! Sorry!!

I would look at the DDR3 version of the MSI 770-C45:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/09/17/msi-770-c45-motherboard-review/1

If you want a decent motherboard with 785G integrated graphics I would go with the Asus M4A785TD-V Evo:

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/asus_m4a785td-v_evo_785g_atx_preview/1
 
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Is BC2 multi threaded?

If it's not then get an X2 550 or the newer 555 (might unlock to a quad anyway and will clock just as well as the 955 if he ever decides to)

That saves about £50 from your budget. New total spent £260... which leaves us £90 to play with.

You could sell the 250 for ~£50-60 irrc and get a 5770 for DX11 which at that res it should handle just fine.
 
reiyushin said:
Is BC2 multi threaded?

If it's not then get an X2 550 or the newer 555 (might unlock to a quad anyway and will clock just as well as the 955 if he ever decides to)

That saves about £50 from your budget. New total spent £260... which leaves us £90 to play with.

You could sell the 250 for ~£50-60 irrc and get a 5770 for DX11 which at that res it should handle just fine.
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I looked at this, but this guy aint gonna be overclocking and if the cores don't unlock then he stuck on dual core, he needs a decent cpu to last him 3-5 years for gaming.

EDIT: good call on the MSI 770-C45, looks ideal. Cheaper too!
 
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I'd change the motherboard to an MSI 770-G45. Call me pedantic but i don't like having the onboard GPU if you're not using it, pointless space lost and power/heat used. And the 2 PCI-e slots might come in handy later on.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Be careful when you get the motherboard and make sure you get one which takes DDR3 and not DDR2.

I assume you are looking at the Asus M4A785-M?? This uses DDR2.

Edit!! Realised it is the Asus M4A78LT-M LE which uses DDR3!! Sorry!!

I would look at the DDR3 version of the MSI 770-C45:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/09/17/msi-770-c45-motherboard-review/1

If you want a decent motherboard with 785G integrated graphics I would go with the Asus M4A785TD-V Evo:

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/asus_m4a785td-v_evo_785g_atx_preview/1
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Superewza said:
I'd change the motherboard to an MSI 770-G45. Call me pedantic but i don't like having the onboard GPU if you're not using it, pointless space lost and power/heat used. And the 2 PCI-e slots might come in handy later on.
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yeh just read the review in the guys post. Looks a cracking board. Can it unlock cores?
 
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