£700 spec

Keylow · 10 Dec 2006 at 14:44

I've become tired of my current rig not being able to keep up with tech latest games at a good level and I've decided to get a new one. I'm not as heavy on games as I used to be though, so I don't want to spend loads of money. Just a good unit that won't break much of a sweat when playing upcoming games, mainly armed assault. My current rig is an AGP based 939 board so upgrades are difficult and expensive. I'll be buying in the next couple of months and I just specced one up now. Just want you guys to take a quick look and see if its the best I can really do for the money. I wont be playing my games above 1280x1024 and I don't mind too much if I have to turn some details down. Medium quality with AA will be fine. I just need it to be future proof and easily upgradeable. I will not be overclocking anything. Here's what I threw together:

Lolcb · 10 Dec 2006 at 15:04

not to discourage you, people with 8800gtx sli are stuggling with armed assault.

semi-pro waster · 10 Dec 2006 at 15:23

It looks fine in terms of being about the best you can do for the budget with no overclocking. I might suggest changing the PSU to a Corsair 520w as it is cheaper, modular and based on the same design as the Seasonic M12 series.

Keylow · 10 Dec 2006 at 16:04

Lolcb said:
not to discourage you, people with 8800gtx sli are stuggling with armed assault.

I'm running ArmA at the moment on my 6800GT, 3500+ and 1GB Ram on normal settings. It runs alright with smaller battles so far. Couple of patches maybe and it'll be perfect on a new rig.