Gameing Machine Spec

Battery · 5 Apr 2006 at 17:51

Hello

Looking to upgrade my PC atm, purely for gameing. Budget is somewhere between the 900/1000 £ mark. I dont need a monitor at all, and i was gonna use roughly about 80 quid of the budget or so to get a new case. So the things i need help with are CPU/Mobo/Ram/Hard Drive. If anyone could spec me a kit for around my budget that would be great

Thanks

Battery · 5 Apr 2006 at 17:58

Lol, totaly forgot about that, my 6800 recently fried (this morning) So yes, i'd need a new gfx card

Battery · 5 Apr 2006 at 18:10

thanks for the reply

will start delving into stuff now

Battery · 5 Apr 2006 at 18:50

Well, I currently have two, though I only ever run the pc through one at a time. The first being a 17" TFT. The other Being a 46" HD DLP telle.

/wave Electronic Punk

Battery · 5 Apr 2006 at 18:56

The largest reso ill use is 1280x1024 on the TFT.

Battery · 5 Apr 2006 at 19:26

If i did go down the route of buying a crossfire mobo for the XT1900... would i "have" to buy a second graphics card for it ?

Battery · 6 Apr 2006 at 09:14

Just read a long thread about problems with crossfire boards.... plus im unlikely to add a second graphics card.

Battery · 6 Apr 2006 at 09:29

Not to sure about a PSU for this lot though, any thoughts specificaly ?

Battery · 6 Apr 2006 at 11:50

Finaly settled on what i want now i think:

AMD 64 X2 4200+ (socket 939)

Powercolor ATI Radeon 1900 xt 512mb

geil 2gb (2x1gb) pc 3200

Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache Hard drive

Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU

Just one thing i noticed when looking at performance results, the dual core
64 x2 4200+ dosent seem to perform as well as the AMD 64 4000+ http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2410&p=7

would it be worth going for the dual core still, or go with the 4000+ ?