Need help with a spec for £300-400

colinuk

colinuk

colinuk

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All i need is a good MotherBoard, Chip and memory. My dad has a sata harddrive and a 6800 graphics card so they will be ok for games like C&C3 and AoE3, but the sod who built the pc has put crap in for the other bits and now it doesnt even install games like C&C3 never mind play them. So as a present i am going to build a new one.

So what M/B, CPU and memory are good to get for about £350 ish for RTS game playing, no on line gaming at all.

TYIA

Colin
 
colinuk said:
All i need is a good MotherBoard, Chip and memory. My dad has a sata harddrive and a 6800 graphics card so they will be ok for games like C&C3 and AoE3, but the sod who built the pc has put crap in for the other bits and now it doesnt even install games like C&C3 never mind play them. So as a present i am going to build a new one.

So what M/B, CPU and memory are good to get for about £350 ish for RTS game playing, no on line gaming at all.

TYIA

Colin
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Whats the current specs of the machine?
 
Is the 6800 AGP or PCI-E? That will probably determine which motherboard you can have (ASRock 4core VSTA is the only motherboard that supports both PCI-E and AGP for socket 775). :)
 
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Is the 6800 AGP or PCI-E? That will probably determine which motherboard you can have (ASRock 4core VSTA is the only motherboard that supports both PCI-E and AGP for socket 775). :)
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Its also the cheapest motherboard that OcUK sell, so really its winwin. :)
 
ok - been on hands and knees. here is what i have found

Its a Gigabyte MB - GA-K8VT800
PSU ATX-400
512mb ram PC3200 unb
CPU is AMD 64 2800+
Grpahics is Nvidia 6800

Hope this helps - all my dad wants is a PC that can run games like AoE3 and C&C3 and didnt want to bother me so got someone to build one for him, im not happy as its crap!

Colin
 
colinuk said:
ok - been on hands and knees. here is what i have found

Its a Gigabyte MB - GA-K8VT800
PSU ATX-400
512mb ram PC3200 unb
CPU is AMD 64 2800+
Grpahics is Nvidia 6800

Hope this helps - all my dad wants is a PC that can run games like AoE3 and C&C3 and didnt want to bother me so got someone to build one for him, im not happy as its crap!

Colin
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Go for the ASRock 4core VSTA (AGP & PCI-E for future upgradability), get 2gb DDR2 ram, and get an Intel C2D 1.6ghz E2140. All for under £150.
 
got the Mb and CPU found, which memory would you say go for?

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA804) - any good for the board and cpu spec mentioned above ?
 
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