New Person - Old Question

[charlie1878]

Hello Everyone,

Looking for some much needed help - Im gonna cheat, and cut and paste the e-mail I placed on the PCGamer forum, so my apologise for being a bit lazy:-

I was one of the foolish people who walked into a competitor and brought one of there Pc's. It was an Advent computer, and has the following specs:-

Inten Pentium 2.8ghz Hyper Threading
Motherboard - Trigem Computer NETHERLANDS advent series - ISA AGP PCI 1MB USB Firewire
1GB DDR - SDRAM --- 2X 133 MHZ (266MHZ data rate)
Nvidea Geforce 6800 GT
DVD 6x
CD 52x
80 Gb Hardrive -- NTFS
G media AC97 Audi Device

I know the above is not impressive, and the grahics card I got with it was some rubbish called MX40 or something. Now I can play Doom 3 in high detail, Far Cry the same and Fear with decent settings, even Half Life 2, was ok. But The frame rate were never stable, I was never able to turn on all the trimmings.. so finally to the question,

Were should I buy a new pc from - I have 1,500 to spend, but would welcome less. I dont need a monitor. I would build myself, but I dont have the time, and with a kid, will not get the peace to do it..

So looking for a pc to buy, that will play half life 2 at high settings with good frame rates (As an example). I want a future proof Computer, so I can upgrade to the new DX10 when they come out, and the new processers when they happen.

Any help with this would be appreciated as its doing my head in looking for a new pc.

 

[chris06]

Building yourself would be the best option but you can buy pre built ones from this website.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Full_Systems_43.html

 

[joeyjojo]

Were should I buy a new pc from...

Sorry, but since this is the forum of an online shop we can't suggest any competitors.

That system doesn't look too bad. As you said, a 6800gt can be persuaded to run most games fairly well, even something as demanding as Oblivion with enough ini tweaking. You could have a go at overclocking it, though I'm not sure that motherboard will do too well.

Building a new system would be best, but since that's not an option and you're primarily gaming I'd buy a middle to high end AMD single core system. For example, the "Ultima" AMD Athlon 64 3700 Dual DDR System (FS-004-OC) would play games very well, and is very good value at only £735 inc vat.

You might prefer a dual core system though. As chris06 said, have a look at the selection on the shop.

What do people think?

 

[Otacon]

I'm afraid the forum rules forbid asking for competitors of OcUK.