Good budget system? have a look

salami1212 · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:00

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is that good.. that should be upgradeable and be able to play oblivion and that?

cheers

Mikey1280 · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:02

I'm not sure that the 6600GT will be able to cope with oblivion, it is a demanding game. 1gb of ram is not enough for some games such as BF2 apparently and why have you added 2 80gb drives?

salami1212 · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:10

um.. well my 6800gt could run it on high.. 6600gt would work fine i think.. jst not on high. 1gb or ram was enough for battlefield 2 on my old system.. and 2 80gb.. 1 for backup, one for windows

fenderbass86 · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:12

I suppose it's good for a budget system but don't expect wonders.

uk_sam · 2 Jul 2006 at 23:15

I would personally spend an extra £65 on a better video card such as the 7600gt which is not too bad at Oblivion and an improvement on the 6800GT.

GhostRider · 3 Jul 2006 at 10:14

Just buy one big hard drive and partion it with PartionMagic.

salami1212 · 3 Jul 2006 at 16:27

no, but what happens if the hard drive fails.. ive lost everything.. also, whats quieter. the seagate or samsung

Gashman · 3 Jul 2006 at 18:01

uk_sam said:
I would personally spend an extra £65 on a better video card such as the 7600gt which is not too bad at Oblivion and an improvement on the 6800GT.

im with you on this one, i would save bit more and get 7600GT, mountains better than 6600GT

salami1212 · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:15

its "budget".. i cant afford that much extra

hp7909 · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:21

PSU?

salami1212 · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:30

have one

quadboi · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:37

I dont know why people are putting the spec down...its GOOD for a budget system as you said... wold cope with oblivion on - Medium or low..

Begbie · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:44

would cope with oblivion fine, my 9800pro works fine with it. Really good budget system if you ask me.

Dureth · 3 Jul 2006 at 22:56

The only thing I would change is to go for a single drive. You said no because if it fails you lose everything. Thing is with 2 drives unless your running RAID (which you said you wouldn't) then it wont give you a better chance of not losing everything. All your data will still be on 1 drive, and if it fails you lose your data. Save your money and get a single 250GB Samsung drive, they are dirt cheap currently.

salami1212 · 4 Jul 2006 at 00:41

i mean, I will have all my files that i want to keep on 1 drive.. and then things like msn.. etc on the windows drive

Arthalen · 4 Jul 2006 at 09:34

2 Drives for Backup purposes as you are going to have are not going to benefit you.

What would you do if your 'Data' Drive failed ?

Otherwise the Spec is fine for a budget system.

Dureth · 4 Jul 2006 at 14:47

If your going to do that then get 1 drive. Having 2 drives will NOT stop you losing data at all in the way your doing it currently.

smiley · 4 Jul 2006 at 15:04

if it a spin point same samsung they are very quite and very reliable

Usual Suspect · 5 Jul 2006 at 06:56

salami1212 said:
no, but what happens if the hard drive fails.. ive lost everything.. also, whats quieter. the seagate or samsung

ive seen 1 hardrive fail in 26 year... i managed to use a recovery program to get the data back. if u have 2 drives and 1 really failed (completly nackered) doesnt matter if uve got 10 drives the data is gone. Unless ** running raid1. But for a home system with home usage raid 1 is overkill. Also what data could you have on a home PC that would be so important that u couldnt just reinstall? im running a small drive in my PC for a single application to use and its 12 years old. Still going strong and must get just under 150 hours us a week.

FYI

Maxtor Maxline Pro 500 500GB 7H500F0 SATA-II 16MB
1 million hours MTTF at low duty cycle

Thats using it 24*7 for over 1100 years.

sniper007 · 5 Jul 2006 at 08:17

Usual Suspect said:
ive seen 1 hardrive fail in 26 year... i managed to use a recovery program to get the data back. if u have 2 drives and 1 really failed (completly nackered) doesnt matter if uve got 10 drives the data is gone. Unless ** running raid1. But for a home system with home usage raid 1 is overkill. Also what data could you have on a home PC that would be so important that u couldnt just reinstall? im running a small drive in my PC for a single application to use and its 12 years old. Still going strong and must get just under 150 hours us a week.

FYI

Maxtor Maxline Pro 500 500GB 7H500F0 SATA-II 16MB
1 million hours MTTF at low duty cycle

Thats using it 24*7 for over 1100 years.

I have seen MANY HDD drives fail since Ive been into PCs and thats about 6ish years only!
How is RAID1 overkill for a home system!? I can think of LOADS of types of data that you would particularly consider important, to name but one family photos anyone? When I thought I had lost all of my family photos I felt sick to the pit of my stomach (this was years of photos of kids growing up etc) and nearly went mental! lol Then I remembered Id been organised and configured a RAID1 array and calmed down!
The best config imo, is 1 x Raptor or fast drive of about say 80 gig for windows and apps, and then 2 x larger drives in RAID1 config.