Hi guys, I signed up with the hope that you'd all be able to help me out.
5 years ago I bought a PC, bought the goods individually and then put it together, ended up setting me about £1100 for a 6800GT, 3700+ and 2 gig ram, crazy how prices have gone down a bit since then, but anyways, having finished uni, I now want something better.
I only really play CS 1.6 and FM09 as my main games, but I always have a lot running [firefox,photoshop,msn,media player,vent,an anti cheat, a game] etc. and I've noticed even with the 6800GT my 1.6 is starting to suffer frame drops because of the sheer age of the machine. Bare in mind it's been running at 100 degrees for the past 3 years, and I think it's time to upgrade.
As a student still, money will be a bit tight, but I think I can reach to about 400 or 450. I don't want anything top of the range, because I don't need it to be like that, but would love for 1.6 to be incredibly smooth and meat through any tasks I set the pc with regards photoshop etc.
I know 400-450 isn't a great deal, but if needs must I can provide a dvd-drive, a hard-drive, monitor and some cooling from my old pc[although how good that is when the 6800GT is running at 100 degrees I don't know!]. I can also provide vista.
I don't really know what to say other than someone who briefly tried to help recommended a c2d and a hd4750, but whether I could get that within that budget I don't know. I can always upgrade later too, maybe in a year or two so don't feel you need to say 'you should get a 400 quid cpu and a 400 quid graphics card mate, save.' That's not an option at the minute.
My dad will freely put the PCtogether as I'm slightly clueless, but I look forward to whatever help you can give, thanks.
5 years ago I bought a PC, bought the goods individually and then put it together, ended up setting me about £1100 for a 6800GT, 3700+ and 2 gig ram, crazy how prices have gone down a bit since then, but anyways, having finished uni, I now want something better.
I only really play CS 1.6 and FM09 as my main games, but I always have a lot running [firefox,photoshop,msn,media player,vent,an anti cheat, a game] etc. and I've noticed even with the 6800GT my 1.6 is starting to suffer frame drops because of the sheer age of the machine. Bare in mind it's been running at 100 degrees for the past 3 years, and I think it's time to upgrade.
As a student still, money will be a bit tight, but I think I can reach to about 400 or 450. I don't want anything top of the range, because I don't need it to be like that, but would love for 1.6 to be incredibly smooth and meat through any tasks I set the pc with regards photoshop etc.
I know 400-450 isn't a great deal, but if needs must I can provide a dvd-drive, a hard-drive, monitor and some cooling from my old pc[although how good that is when the 6800GT is running at 100 degrees I don't know!]. I can also provide vista.
I don't really know what to say other than someone who briefly tried to help recommended a c2d and a hd4750, but whether I could get that within that budget I don't know. I can always upgrade later too, maybe in a year or two so don't feel you need to say 'you should get a 400 quid cpu and a 400 quid graphics card mate, save.' That's not an option at the minute.
My dad will freely put the PCtogether as I'm slightly clueless, but I look forward to whatever help you can give, thanks.
