£1200 budget

fenderbass86 · 11 Feb 2006 at 14:34

Good day to all, I just got a new job and will be looking to get a decent gaming pc. I already have a good enough mouse and keyboard. Would like a 19" TFT and a base unit (I like the look of the X1900XT). Maybe a £1200 budget. Need value for money. I also need a pretty spacious HD, I have a lot of video's on my current one. How would I go about transfering them onto a new computer?

Monstermunch · 11 Feb 2006 at 14:50

fenderbass86 said:
Good day to all, I just got a new job and will be looking to get a decent gaming pc. I already have a good enough mouse and keyboard. Would like a 19" TFT and a base unit (I like the look of the X1900XT). Maybe a £1200 budget. Need value for money. I also need a pretty spacious HD, I have a lot of video's on my current one. How would I go about transfering them onto a new computer?

You mentioned value for money but have put the x1900xt in there. Doesn't make sense. VFM is a 7800gt or an x1800.

KizZ · 11 Feb 2006 at 14:54

How about:

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD) £64.25

Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Black UV (CA-005-HP) £54.95

Samsung SM-913N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-022-SA) £169.95

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP) £299.95

Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS) £69.95

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-121-AM) £124.95

G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit (F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ) (MY-008-GS) £129.95

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) £14.95

NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE) £28.70

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL) £49.50

Subtotal £1,007.10
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £24.95
VAT £180.61
Total £1,212.66

Monstermunch · 11 Feb 2006 at 14:58

How about this:

CP-148-AM AMD Opteron UP 170 Dual Core San Diego 2.0GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-148-AM)
£299.95 £299.95
MB-014-DF DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
£84.95 £84.95
MY-008-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit (F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ) (MY-008-GS)
£129.95 £129.95
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)
£64.25 £64.25
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£28.70 £28.70
CA-017-TT Thermaltake VB1000BNS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - Black (CA-017-TT)
£39.95 £39.95
GX-069-LT Leadtek GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-069-LT)
£169.95 £169.95
CA-005-HP Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Black UV (CA-005-HP)
£54.95 £54.95
MO-022-SA Samsung SM-913N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-022-SA)
£169.95 £169.95
Subtotal £1,042.60
VAT £182.46
Total £1,225.06

The big problem you will have will be going for an x1900xt anf a 19" tft will take up more than half of your budget not leaving much for good components to match with!

fenderbass86 · 11 Feb 2006 at 15:18

I take your point MM, i'll have to think about this one.

Nixeh · 11 Feb 2006 at 20:33

Yeah MM is right, i got a good system in mind for £1000 but thats without a monitor and case (as im building my own) and the system is quite powerful

fenderbass86 · 11 Feb 2006 at 20:50

What have you got then?

Nixeh · 12 Feb 2006 at 00:45

uh let me put it down and ill paste it here.

Nixeh · 12 Feb 2006 at 00:51

Here you go... heres what i got.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (S939) £184.95
Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (S939) PCI Express Motherboard £54.95
G.Skill 2GB DDR ZX PC3200 (2x1GB) CAS2 Dual Channel Kit £134.95
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (PCI-Express) £299.95
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 300GB 6V300F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache £74.95
NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £25.50
Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU £54.95

Subtotal £830.20
VAT £145.29
Total £975.49

If you add the 20" monitor and a case with it ...

Acer AL1916W 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver £159.95
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case £49.50

Which has a complete total of:

Subtotal £1,039.65
VAT £181.94
Total £1,221.59

Hope this helps.

BigDom · 12 Feb 2006 at 01:11

Monstermunch said:
You mentioned value for money but have put the x1900xt in there. Doesn't make sense. VFM is a 7800gt or an x1800.

Actually the X1900 is damned good Value for Money. It's the 7800GTX that's not good value for money. Nice solid spec, just over budget

Dual Core and leading edge graphics with a decent monitor ( same I use ).

MO-027-HY Hyundai ImageQuest B90A 19" LCD Monitor (MO-027-HY)
£194.95 £194.95
MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£28.70 £28.70
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£109.95 £109.95
HD-089-MD Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 300GB 6V300F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-089-MD)
£74.95 £74.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£184.95 £184.95
GX-112-SP Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP)
£299.95 £299.95
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)
£54.95 £54.95
Subtotal £1,018.35
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £179.96
Total £1,208.26

Monstermunch · 12 Feb 2006 at 01:49

BigDom said:
Actually the X1900 is damned good Value for Money. It's the 7800GTX that's not good value for money. Nice solid spec, just over budget

Sorry BigDom, I've always had a love hate relationship with gfx cards. :rolleyes:

Nowadays I wont spend over £200 on a gfx card cos the way I see it is that if you buy an X1900XT 512mb and I buy an X1800XL, by the time mine needs replacing so will yours! The chipsets are basically the same just the speed thats better, and the instructions in the chipset is what really matters to run the latest games.

Basically all i'm saying is that if I had a budget of £1200 then I would allocate as much as possible to the CPU (within reason, i.e. not fx60) cos then all I will need to upgrade in about 12-18months will be the gfx card and not CPU, Mobo etc etc.

The spec you've put is great but I would just swap the budgets around between the CPU & GPU.

Oh btw you've got two lots of ram in the spec.

BigDom · 12 Feb 2006 at 02:26

oops on the ram - well spotted - lol

Not my night.. well that makes it in budget and increases the support for a decent graphics card.

TBH I disagree.. there are games now that the 7800GT will struggle on that a X1900XT will walk all over. A simple example is EQ2 who's graphics are fantastic but strain the card a lot. The life of a card simply depends on the games being played. WoW is NEVER going to stress a 7800GT for example, so if you play that exclusively it'll work for ages. On the flipside a CPU will get stressed by a combat flight sim so may need replacing earlier than the graphics ( for example Pactific Fighters is only 1024x768 max and decent but not awsome graphics - but once you get into a monster fight it'll stress most CPU's and crease up the framerate as a consequence ). Without going barmy it's allways best to get the best VALUE card out. Currently that is definatly a £299 X1900XT which will outlast a 7800GT with ease.