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Hi there,
Was in the HDD section back along with a HDD for someone else (old IDE 20Gb thing) that was clicking. (thread was called Clickty click click I think...)
Anywho that died (as I said it would) & I was able to lend a 40GB that's a lot more stable but just as slow.
They told me that they are going to use the Xmas monies & get me to build them a PC after xmas.
They only want a PC for web browsing, MSN, office and the ODD game (not FPS or RTS or anything.... Bit of Diner dash, Sims 2 & maybe Portal...)
They have atm a P4 1.9ghz with a crappy mobo (fujitsu siemens PC) and 256MB SDRAM. I know ANYTHING will be quicker than this and I think they are finally understanding this. They had 512 apparently but a stick died back along and this is when they noticed how slow it was. I have explained that a 256 or a 512 stick will cost less than £20 from the bay & would help for the time being but they want a whole PC after xmas.
Just to let you all know I have installed Portal onto the above PC (GFX card is a Radeon 9600Pro 256 Advantage....
) And it does runs on low settings. They are more than happy to play it with the low quailty settings but when I showed them the difference between that and high (on another PC) they didn't like the settings to much but did get used to them again after 5 mins...
So basicly Im saying they don't need something reallllllllllly powerful but would like it to be as future proof as possible.
The user has no more than £300 to spend on everything bar the keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Thinking get a case with a PSU already installed, a GFX card that will last as long as possible but not be to expensive, 250-320gb HDD and a SATA DVD-RW drive.
Apparently the user has the following sorted for £50. Although it is not top notch I think that it will easily do for the rest of the year as they are thinking of then upgrading their mobo, cpu & RAM again in another yr & a half.
64 3400+ socket 754, Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-RH and 1GB geil RAM for £50
Will the combo above be enough power for the time they want it to last for? I mean do they really need a dual core with DDR2 ram?
So if they get the above mobo, cpu & RAM that leaves £250 for the rest... Although they really want it as cheap as possible........
Sorry for the long ass essay but just wanted to give you as much info as possible.
Cheers in advance, Doug.
Was in the HDD section back along with a HDD for someone else (old IDE 20Gb thing) that was clicking. (thread was called Clickty click click I think...)
Anywho that died (as I said it would) & I was able to lend a 40GB that's a lot more stable but just as slow.
They told me that they are going to use the Xmas monies & get me to build them a PC after xmas.
They only want a PC for web browsing, MSN, office and the ODD game (not FPS or RTS or anything.... Bit of Diner dash, Sims 2 & maybe Portal...)
They have atm a P4 1.9ghz with a crappy mobo (fujitsu siemens PC) and 256MB SDRAM. I know ANYTHING will be quicker than this and I think they are finally understanding this. They had 512 apparently but a stick died back along and this is when they noticed how slow it was. I have explained that a 256 or a 512 stick will cost less than £20 from the bay & would help for the time being but they want a whole PC after xmas.
Just to let you all know I have installed Portal onto the above PC (GFX card is a Radeon 9600Pro 256 Advantage....
) And it does runs on low settings. They are more than happy to play it with the low quailty settings but when I showed them the difference between that and high (on another PC) they didn't like the settings to much but did get used to them again after 5 mins...So basicly Im saying they don't need something reallllllllllly powerful but would like it to be as future proof as possible.
The user has no more than £300 to spend on everything bar the keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Thinking get a case with a PSU already installed, a GFX card that will last as long as possible but not be to expensive, 250-320gb HDD and a SATA DVD-RW drive.
Apparently the user has the following sorted for £50. Although it is not top notch I think that it will easily do for the rest of the year as they are thinking of then upgrading their mobo, cpu & RAM again in another yr & a half.
64 3400+ socket 754, Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-RH and 1GB geil RAM for £50
Will the combo above be enough power for the time they want it to last for? I mean do they really need a dual core with DDR2 ram?
So if they get the above mobo, cpu & RAM that leaves £250 for the rest... Although they really want it as cheap as possible........
Sorry for the long ass essay but just wanted to give you as much info as possible.
Cheers in advance, Doug.
