Advise Me Again Please!

OLD JUD

OLD JUD

OLD JUD

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Hi folks,

I asked for your advice a few months ago concerning a system upgrade, sadly the cash allocated was needed for something else, but now i've aquired another small 'Nestegg'!:D

This is my existing system..............

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Socket 939

Mobo - AsRock Model - 939NF6G-VSTA

Memory - 2 Gig OCZ DDR PC 4000

H/Drive - Western Digital 250 Gig SATA

Graphics Card - XFX GeForce 8800 GTX

DVD Burner - 1 x Optiarc

Operating System - Vista Ultimate (32 Bit)

Akasa MIdi Case

Not sure of power supply Akasa 600 Watt maybe?

I've seen this system advertised for £650, what does the panel think?.........

CPU - Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600.

MOBO -J&W X48D2-EXTREME Motherboard.

GRAPHICS - XFX Radeon HD 4870 XXX Edition Video Card - 1024MB GDDR5.

MEMORY - CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 PC2 8500 with dominator memory cooling fans.

H/DRIVE 1 - Western Digital 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA Raptor Internal Hard Drive

H/DRIVE 2 - 320 GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS Caviar Blue, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache

CPU COOLER - Gigabyte 3D Rocket II cpu cooler

PSU - SilverStone Zeus ST65ZF 650W Power Supply nVIDIA SLI Certified

SOUND CARD - Creative SB0090 Sound Blaster Audigy PCI Sound Card w/ SB1394 Firewire

KEYBOARD/MOUSE - Logitech Wireless Desktop LX 710 Laser Keyboard and Mouse

DVD BURNER - LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±R, 16xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RWx6 ,12xRAM SATA, Black

MONITOR - 17" AOC Monitor WJ1780A LCD.

Is it good value for money or should i invest in something else, obviously i might be able to haggle on the price of this system to some degree.

Thanks in advance for any advice.;)
 
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Is that new or second hand? I don't think that's worth £650 even if it's new.

What's the intended use of the computer? The spec of that one is a touch odd, looks like a badly researched gaming build.

Can you assemble it yourself?

edit: psychokinesis :)
 
JonJ678 said:
Is that new or second hand? I don't think that's worth £650 even if it's new.

What's the intended use of the computer? The spec of that one is a touch odd, looks like a badly researched gaming build.

Can you assemble it yourself?

edit: psychokinesis :)
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+1

That system has to be second hand. If you have £650 to spend today get the dude to drop the price(to like £400 and buy a new monitor) or look elsewhere (psst- build it yourself).

I'm sure the 17in monitor is very nice, but if you are going to drop that sort of cash you should be looking for atleast 22in.

If you are interested in assembling a system yourself we would be happy to specify a good value, fully compatible set.
 
JonJ678 said:
Is that new or second hand? I don't think that's worth £650 even if it's new.

What's the intended use of the computer? The spec of that one is a touch odd, looks like a badly researched gaming build.

Can you assemble it yourself?

edit: psychokinesis :)
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Hi Jon, Yes it's secondhand rig. I can certainly assemble myself, i'm just well and truly out of touch with whats 'Hot' these days.

It will be used for gaming and web browsing.

cmndr_andi said:
+1

That system has to be second hand. If you have £650 to spend today get the dude to drop the price(to like £400 and buy a new monitor) or look elsewhere (psst- build it yourself).

I'm sure the 17in monitor is very nice, but if you are going to drop that sort of cash you should be looking for atleast 22in.

If you are interested in assembling a system yourself we would be happy to specify a good value, fully compatible set.
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Hi Andi, as stated above it's secondhand. Obviously i could do a rebuild of my present rig, i've got a decent case/h/drives/graphics card/DVD burner, even my old CRT monitor is fairly decent.

Lemin said:
Id prefer this, with a good monitor.

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Thanks Lemin, as i've stated i could keep my old CRT monitor and just upgrade the hardware, i.e. New mobo/cpu/ram.......But what do i choose seeing as the Intel system i've seen isn't the best 'Bang per buck' out there?
 
Bang per buck tends to mean AMD when it's for gaming. Check the power supply, a 600W akasa is probably solid but other 600W might not be. 8800GTX is awesome, I'm very fond of my 8800GT.

If you upgrade rather than replace, you'll get a hell of an improvement for less than £650. Definitely something to consider, i7 may appeal at 500 ish for the cpu/ram/mb but I'd still suggest amd's phenom 2, with one of the ddr2 boards. Corsair dominator is brilliant ram, I've just bought from their range. Perhaps a quad core phenom, good am3 motherboard. Unsure beyond that, £650 is more than you need to spend I think. but that's got to be good news
 
how about the following, included a psu but if yours is fairly new then it can be discarded.

if you have the £650 available for your initial post you could include the Samsung SM2233BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-098-SA) and it would come to £588:

depending on how well your case cools/handles the 8800gtx maybe include the antec 300 case as well.

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £145.98 (£126.94)

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £105.00 (£91.30)

Coolermaster Real Power 620w Modular Power Supply £79.99 (£69.56)

OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3G16004GK) £56.98 (£49.55)

Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366) £33.99 (£29.56)

Sub Total : £366.91
Shipping : £10.00
VAT : £56.54
Total : £433.45
 
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JonJ678 said:
Bang per buck tends to mean AMD when it's for gaming. Check the power supply, a 600W akasa is probably solid but other 600W might not be. 8800GTX is awesome, I'm very fond of my 8800GT.

If you upgrade rather than replace, you'll get a hell of an improvement for less than £650. Definitely something to consider, i7 may appeal at 500 ish for the cpu/ram/mb but I'd still suggest amd's phenom 2, with one of the ddr2 boards. Corsair dominator is brilliant ram, I've just bought from their range. Perhaps a quad core phenom, good am3 motherboard. Unsure beyond that, £650 is more than you need to spend I think. but that's got to be good news
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Thanks for the advice Jon, I must admit to being quite impressed with my 8800 GTX, i guess i'd have to spend a fair amout to get a significant increase in performance.

Could you be more specific on the CPU and mobo please?

mp260767 said:
how about the following, included a psu but if yours is fairly new then it can be discarded.

if you have the £650 available for your initial post you could include the Samsung SM2233BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-098-SA) and it would come to £588:

depending on how well your case cools/handles the 8800gtx maybe include the antec 300 case as well.

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £145.98 (£126.94)

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £105.00 (£91.30)

Coolermaster Real Power 620w Modular Power Supply £79.99 (£69.56)

OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3G16004GK) £56.98 (£49.55)

Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366) £33.99 (£29.56)

Sub Total : £366.91
Shipping : £10.00
VAT : £56.54
Total : £433.45
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Thanks for the advice MP, food for thought eh? My case seems to do a good job of keeping everything reasonably cool, the PSU seems to handle the 8800 GTX without problem, though i'm wondering about a possible upgrade to a 1000 Watt PSU at a later date to run either a crossfire or SLI setup.
 
You have basically the same spec as my old PC. I kept my disks, case, psu and graphics card and updated the heart.
 
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