Building a new computer for uni

Simonnn · 17 Jul 2006 at 10:06

Hi, im wanting to build a computer for my third year at uni, Im studying Architecture and my current laptop really struggles with some of the demanding software we use so, I need a computer thats as high a spec I can get for my money to run these and so i can get back into gaming.

Ive got a budget of £800 and this needs to include a monitor, and then just everything in the case, i've already got keyboard mouse speakers etc.

Ive noticed a few threads asking for builds with this budget but wasnt sure what their use was, it would be really helpful if somebody could spec me a comp as im not too hot on whats what and compatability etc

Thanks

Simon

Simonnn · 17 Jul 2006 at 10:56

Thankyou! What would be the benefit of going with intel instead of AMD?

Whats mATX? mini? size isnt really a problem im not really fussed about the case how it looks or anything like that

Simonnn · 17 Jul 2006 at 11:15

That sounds like what I need then, thanks, does that include everything I'd need or is there stuff such as fans or any wiring that is on top?

Simonnn · 17 Jul 2006 at 12:38

Great, should this run the latest games well too?

Simonnn · 17 Jul 2006 at 12:56

So if i only got 1GB at first what would then be a better option of graphiocs card?

Simonnn · 24 Jul 2006 at 17:49

Ive been doing some more looking around and the only thing im not sure on is the monitor, a tft would be great but for the graphics progs I'll be using i was looking at some bigger CRTs which you seem to be able to get for almost £50 second hand, would a crt be just as good as a tft apart from the obvious space it takes up? I was wondering also if I did that and having an extra £50 to play with what could be done to the spec?

thanks

Simonnn · 24 Jul 2006 at 18:21

the way I was thinking was that I could get a bigger better screen for the money if I sacrificed space and went with a CRT or is that not the case?