Hi,
Decided it’s finally time to buy a new pc as my current PC really is a bit out dated (barton 2500, ati 9700pro, 1gb pc3200 ram e.t.c).
Anyway my budget is around £1000 though I would spend a little more if needed.
I use my pc mainly for online games and am often using the internet and doing other things whilst running these games (very slow on my current pc), I also own a 19” LCD so all my games have to be run at 1280x1024, you can probably tell from my current pc I don’t upgrade that often, so would like something that is fairly future proof.
Haven’t been looking long so I have just pulled a quick spec off overclockers as a starting point.
MSI ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 £340.69
AMD Opteron UP 165 £264.32
Antec P150 Quiet PC Case - 430w HE Modular PSU £103.34
Corsair 2GB DDR XMS4000PT TwinX (2x1GB) £152.69
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JD SATA 8MB £37.54
Abit AT8 ATI RD480 Crossfire (Socket 939) £88.07
Total £986.65
Would appreciate comments/changes in the above spec, any bottlenecks that would be worth while paying a bit more for? Anything I can get away with down grading and paying a little less for?
Is that case ok to fit everything in and is the power supply going be enough? I will probably over clock the chip but run gfx card at stock. Also the plan is eventually to get a second graphics card would I need to get a higher watt power supply for that?
Another thing which is worrying me is I have a Samsung 913 N which doesn’t have a dvi port I noticed all the new gfx cards only have dvi output can you buy a converter and do you loose any quality?
Also could anyone recommend a good heat sink and fan for the chip.
I’m currently using win xp, any point in getting windows xp x64?
Sorry for the million questions, buying a new pc always gives me a headache when there’s so much to choose from!
Decided it’s finally time to buy a new pc as my current PC really is a bit out dated (barton 2500, ati 9700pro, 1gb pc3200 ram e.t.c).
Anyway my budget is around £1000 though I would spend a little more if needed.
I use my pc mainly for online games and am often using the internet and doing other things whilst running these games (very slow on my current pc), I also own a 19” LCD so all my games have to be run at 1280x1024, you can probably tell from my current pc I don’t upgrade that often, so would like something that is fairly future proof.
Haven’t been looking long so I have just pulled a quick spec off overclockers as a starting point.
MSI ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 £340.69
AMD Opteron UP 165 £264.32
Antec P150 Quiet PC Case - 430w HE Modular PSU £103.34
Corsair 2GB DDR XMS4000PT TwinX (2x1GB) £152.69
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JD SATA 8MB £37.54
Abit AT8 ATI RD480 Crossfire (Socket 939) £88.07
Total £986.65
Would appreciate comments/changes in the above spec, any bottlenecks that would be worth while paying a bit more for? Anything I can get away with down grading and paying a little less for?
Is that case ok to fit everything in and is the power supply going be enough? I will probably over clock the chip but run gfx card at stock. Also the plan is eventually to get a second graphics card would I need to get a higher watt power supply for that?
Another thing which is worrying me is I have a Samsung 913 N which doesn’t have a dvi port I noticed all the new gfx cards only have dvi output can you buy a converter and do you loose any quality?
Also could anyone recommend a good heat sink and fan for the chip.
I’m currently using win xp, any point in getting windows xp x64?
Sorry for the million questions, buying a new pc always gives me a headache when there’s so much to choose from!