Wife upgrade

Boogiemaster · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:01

My wife loves to play games and she plays bf2 but when playing bad company 2 it struggles.

Her system is

HP Pavilion t3729.UK Desktop PC Intel Pentium D 915 / 2.8 GHz .

She has some parts already like

ASUS ENGTX460 TOP graphics card

Corsair GS 600 power supply

She only needs a CPU motherboard memory and one terabyte hard drive.

Her budget is £250 so could she get something decent that would allow her to play the game?

Thanks

stulid · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:32

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
Asus M4A88T-M AMD 880G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM 1yr Warranty (ST31000518AS) £37.99
(£31.66) £37.99
(£31.66)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £31.99
(£26.66) £31.99
(£26.66)
Sub Total : £198.30
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £41.56
Total : £249.36

Aedus · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:38

I'd suggest a 21 year old Thai

Predicament · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:40

stulid said:
Total : £249.36

Stulid you genius!

VARDY · 12 Feb 2011 at 01:52

heh, when i first saw the title i thought you were looking for a new wife.

Aedus has a good suggestion.

dave_beast · 12 Feb 2011 at 02:37

Suggest a rack mount system?

DJ_Hughesy · 12 Feb 2011 at 03:03

save a little extra get a nice cpu cooler with it n clock that 955 to 3.8
sure one of this lot can suggest a nice price/performance cooler

forgot to say i run that cpu @3.8 n an old 9800gt

runs bc2 at 1680 by 1050 medium settings with fps that never stutters or becomes unplayable

iirc bc2 is fairly cpu heavy but that system suggested shoudl do it

Howitzer · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:11

Well done Stulid!! Delivery budgeted and everythin'!

The cooler idea is good, but that can always come later

Apem · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:16

VARDY said:
heh, when i first saw the title i thought you were looking for a new wife.

Aedus has a good suggestion.

Hehe thats what i thought

Boogiemaster · 12 Feb 2011 at 12:05

Thanks for taking the time Stulid i really appreciate it.

Will order the parts right away and i know her system will fly now

I would upgrade the cooler but if its running you know what a woman is like?

The Thai wife sounds wonderful but i need to save a few years for that upgrade

Hope there is a long warranty

Thanks all

OpenToSuggestions · 12 Feb 2011 at 12:07

Aedus said:
I'd suggest a 21 year old Thai

Haha.

It isn't so much the year of manufacture, it is more ....

how it has been treated? Well?
How is the bodywork?
Is the chassis in good nick?

.....and most importantly, how many previous owners?

Monkey Puzzle · 12 Feb 2011 at 14:55

Aedus said:
I'd suggest a 21 year old Thai

Just be sure to return under distance selling regulations if they try sending you a big-handed model.

skylineboy · 12 Feb 2011 at 14:58

Don't forget to check the ID of the upgrade you never know how old they might be

anuraj · 12 Feb 2011 at 15:11

Hope you can upgrade that wife of yours (joking). Stulids build should be good.

Boogiemaster · 14 Feb 2011 at 11:59

Stulid

I ordered the parts today but i just changed two of them.

Hard drive i ordered

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

Ram i got the XMS memory

They arrive Tuesday but just wanted to say thanks for your help.

Just saving up for my system at the moment and hopefully it will be over a grand.

You can spec my system then.

Thanks again