Buying a New Pc

casuals87

casuals87

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Hi all,

I'm currently looking into buying a new pc I only have about £350 to spend so I know i'm not going to be able to get anything top of the range. Anyway i've come across a couple of pc's at a local shop but can't decide which one to buy so I thought i'd ask here for your opinions. Heres the specs:

Rig 1

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Socket 939
ASUS A8V-VM Mobo
1GB DDR400
120GB IDE HDD
512mb AMD X1600PRO PCI-E
16x DL DVD-RW
£340


Rig 2

AMD Athlon X2 4200+ AM2
nVIDIA GeForce 6100-405 Chipset (Don't no actual model)
1GB DDR2 533mhz
200GB SATA300 HDD
Integrated 256mb nVidia 6100 GFX
18x DL DVD-RW

£360

I know the gfx cards are rubbish but I don't have the cash to get anything better at the moment. I'll be using it a fair bit for gaming but will probably in the near future whack a TV card in it and use as a media center pc as well. Anyway let me know what you think of them and which one you would go for or what you would suggest for that sort of price.



Cheers
 
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casuals87 said:
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Well if you want it for gaming I would be inclined to say the first one. Purely because of the dedicated graphics card, as oppose to on-board.

However, if I was you, I would price up the systems from buying just the components online and see what the difference is. I'd imagine your local shop adds at least £50 on top for building.

That money could be well spent in other areas of your machine.
 
Oh and just to add (before someone flames me for it)...

The first one is using dead AMD technology (Socket 939). So maybe bear that in mind.
 
The second one is quite hard to be for value for money to be honest.

The AM2 is a bonus as new chips will be coming out in the future. Also you could quite easily add another 1GB Ram and a new GFX Card in the future.
 
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