New to pcs looking for help :(

[BuToNz]

I honestly think the pc you got for £80 is pretty decent, but its just that. Its too old to form a base for a decent machine.

Exactly the point I'm trying to make, hands down the best thing you can do is add a decent GPU and PSU. Everything else leave, you don't need a processor upgrade (Certainly not to an Athlon) and the 4GB RAM you have is enough.

 

[Behemoth]

I'd say the 4GB it has already is more than enough

 

[Christurbo]

Sweet so just the graphics card and a psu , Proberly a ssd and a bigger hard drive for films
Just want run battlefield good and any other fps and driving games
I've just ordered 100mb fibre optic as was on 20mb
All this is going through a 37inch led panasOnic led tv

 

[Christurbo]

So for £80 think I came off good? I know I need to upgrade parts but lets say it works out £200 so cost me £280 then

 

[BuToNz]

So for £80 think I came off good? I know I need to upgrade parts but lets say it works out £200 so cost me £280 then

Well if I'm honest for that kind of money you could have been looking at a Trinity setup for not much more. You'd not quite have the GPU grunt you'll have with the upgrade but you'd have an overall more future proofed system.

The PSU and GPU is something you can always migrate to another system should you need to anyway. Get a good GPU/PSU ordered up and see how you fair, then you can look at other upgrade options.

GPU:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-081-HS&groupid=701&catid=56

PSU: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-039-SS&groupid=701&catid=123

Brings you under £200 and will mean you can game at a decent resolution with no issues.

 

[Christurbo]

Sorry for the millions questions all the time but what sata is mine looking for a 2tb hard drive To go with the Kingston 120gb ssd
I have loads of films like loads
Thanks again
Feel like I'm asking Way touch for One thread

 

[BuToNz]

Sorry for the millions questions all the time but what sata is mine looking for a 2tb hard drive To go with the Kingston 120gb ssd
I have loads of films like loads
Thanks again
Feel like I'm asking Way touch for One thread

It'll be SATA2 I suspect, don't worry though they are always backwards/forwards compatible. So a SATA3 SSD will still work but might not reach it's maximum speed, personally the difference you'd feel in day to day usage will be no different.

 

[Christurbo]

Ok thank you think I've found it and will order it all on payday
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
**B Grade** MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V+200 Drive SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SVP200S37A/120G) £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Western Digital Caviar Red 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EFRX - OEM HDD £61.99
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Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
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Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller - PC / Xbox 360 (52A-00005) £21.98
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[BuToNz]

Looks good, since you won't be ordering just yet - I'd swap out the PSU for the one I said in an earlier post. Seasonic are by far the best - they make all the best PSU's (Plus OcUK honour the full warranty period - Corsair RMA requires you to post to Netherlands costing approx £20).

 

[Christurbo]

Will it be able to ring the 7850 ok?

 

[Christurbo]

Also is it modular? Got told to make sure I get a modular one also I need some clips for my case the ones that u put onto the hard drive and then using the clips they clip into the case do overclockers sell them I'll get some pics tonight

 

[BuToNz]

Also is it modular? Got told to make sure I get a modular one also I need some clips for my case the ones that u put onto the hard drive and then using the clips they clip into the case do overclockers sell them I'll get some pics tonight

It'll handle the 7850 no problem. That PSU I said isn't modular but that won't be a problem - Just route the cables well. Not sure what you mean by clips, they should have came with the case. Take some pictures of the case and the full inside view so I can get a grasp of what you mean/need.

 

[Christurbo]

Will take some when I get HOme but basicly these clips " , attach ever side of the a harddrive which enable it to clip Into the case , I only have one set of clips for 1 hard drive but I need more "clips" so I can put more hard drives into the case I'll take pictures later , I'll also do that auto overclock as mentioned before

 

[BuToNz]

Ah, you'll need to contact the case manufacturer for those (Assuming they still make whatever case you have).

 

[Christurbo]

Also having a prOblem getting into the bios and then it came up with this

 

[Christurbo]

It's asked if I wanted tO attempt repairs "recommended"
Or start windows regularly

Ow update it's just turned off :s

 

[Christurbo]

It just won't let me into bios I press delete an it just goes straight to the loading prepare for a load of pics

 

[Christurbo]

Turn computer on and get this as usual

Then this

But if I press delete it does this and stays

 

[BuToNz]

Umm, looks like the graphics card is shot?

 

[Christurbo]

It's fine as my mate had bios open the others day
I've changed the graphics over and they bother work , hdmi in the motherboards and analogue in the gt 9800 :s