new budget gaming system.

andyinoz · 24 Feb 2009 at 11:58

Hey peeps!
new to this forum but been reading it for quite some time now.
this is a new setup ive been looking at setting up since i sold my last one to fund oz, but im not sure if it will be good enough. basically i love CoD4 and similar games. whatcha think?

any advice would be greatly appreciated

(p.s. there will be a dvd rewriter in there too.

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mp260767 · 24 Feb 2009 at 12:04

maybe swap the mobo to the Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L.

but should run the likes of cod4 fine.

andyinoz · 24 Feb 2009 at 15:00

nice one ive updated it to include the new mobo, so will that psu be fine for running that setup? and nowt will bottleneck it will it?

mythrandyr · 24 Feb 2009 at 15:28

i'd also be tempted to buy

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-059-SA

and just partition it to 2 drives. They're only around a tenner more than the deskstar and you'll have an extra 140GB to play around with.

Steve2000 · 24 Feb 2009 at 15:34

The PSU is ample. You can have either hard drive, if you want the extra 140GB then go for that.

Will run most modern games at decent framerates. But if anything out of that lot needs upgrading it's the mouse. Spend an extra tenner or so and get a Razer Salmosa or Logitech MX518, you'll notice the difference especially in gaming.

Audigex · 24 Feb 2009 at 15:48

I'd go for the better mouse too if it's mainly a gaming rig.

Good choice with the 19" monitor - a 22+ would probably have been pushing the 4850.

I'd stick with the hard drive you have now in a 2:3 partition for OS and data: if you find you're using above 280gb-ish on data, you can just get another drive, but you're not likely to hit 500GB on an average gaming-oriented machine.

triggerthat · 24 Feb 2009 at 16:09

I'd recommend you try and look for a second hand Quad Core CPU and a GFX card to get the most for your money

LukeTW · 24 Feb 2009 at 16:11

Better mouse and keyboard imo