Another spec help thread....

Nuttah · 17 Aug 2006 at 23:27

I currently have an Athlon XP and have decided it's time to move on, however, I am a little unsure as to what direction to take.

First of all I need to decide between AMD or intel, I am edging towards Intel Dual Core at the moment.....

Basically, I have about £400-£500 to spend and am going to need CPU, RAM, M/b & GFX card (current one is AGP). I can use my current kit for anything else.

Any suggestions as to what would be a good spec? I do play a lot of games so the gfx card is always going to be important.....

Tetras · 17 Aug 2006 at 23:35

What is your PSU? Might need a new one of those too.

Nuttah · 18 Aug 2006 at 00:31

Tetras said:
What is your PSU? Might need a new one of those too.

Got a decent 450w PSU, has a pretty good output on each rail

semi-pro waster · 18 Aug 2006 at 01:19

Given the budget I think this is what I would be aiming for, it should overclock nicely although you may want to buy a better CPU cooler if taking it much beyond stock speeds

MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
£89.95 £89.95
MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£94.95 £94.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£126.95 £126.95
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£115.95 £115.95
Subtotal £427.80
VAT £74.87
Total £502.67

Nuttah · 18 Aug 2006 at 10:54

semi-pro waster said:
Given the budget I think this is what I would be aiming for, it should overclock nicely although you may want to buy a better CPU cooler if taking it much beyond stock speeds

MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
£89.95 £89.95
MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£94.95 £94.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£126.95 £126.95
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£115.95 £115.95
Subtotal £427.80
VAT £74.87
Total £502.67

As it happens that is pretty much what I was looking at. What would be good fan wise (I intend to overclock, if not straight away, at some point). I have heard good things about a cooled called the Ninja....