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Having decided to invest in a new office desktop for simple office tasks, I thought I should dabble in some PC gaming also.
Main targets are for some iRacing action together with some Battlefield 3 if at all possible.
Working on a very strict budget I managed to pick up the following for less than the price of a half decent graphics card:-
-Gigabyte GA-G31M-25L motherboard
-Intel Pentium Dual core E2220 (2.4GHz dual core)
-250GB Maxtor 7200RPM SATA II hard disk
-NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 GT Graphics card 512MB
-Thermaltake 500W TR2-500 ultra quiet power supply
-2 GB GEIL PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz RAM (1GB X 2) [expandable to 4GB]
In addition I sourced a Intel Q6600 CPU for a further £50.
Question is, if I had £150 or so to spend, where would I now be best focusing for improving possible gaming action - the PC will feed a 24" Dell 2405 monitor. I know in the future a complete rebuild will be best - but I want to test the water before parting with that serious amount of cash!
Cheers in advance
Main targets are for some iRacing action together with some Battlefield 3 if at all possible.
Working on a very strict budget I managed to pick up the following for less than the price of a half decent graphics card:-
-Gigabyte GA-G31M-25L motherboard
-Intel Pentium Dual core E2220 (2.4GHz dual core)
-250GB Maxtor 7200RPM SATA II hard disk
-NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 GT Graphics card 512MB
-Thermaltake 500W TR2-500 ultra quiet power supply
-2 GB GEIL PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz RAM (1GB X 2) [expandable to 4GB]
In addition I sourced a Intel Q6600 CPU for a further £50.
Question is, if I had £150 or so to spend, where would I now be best focusing for improving possible gaming action - the PC will feed a 24" Dell 2405 monitor. I know in the future a complete rebuild will be best - but I want to test the water before parting with that serious amount of cash!
Cheers in advance
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