A PC from comet *cringes* hehe
You should have slapped up a cheap 'spec me' thread and then done some comparisons with that comet built seeing as you've put your PSU and GFX card in then you must just be using the mobo,cpu and ram that came with it?
That old one is a bit of a mystery - sounds like some real faulty hardware issues. Nice to know it definatly wasnt your old PSU and Graphics seeing as their now serving you in your new PC. I have a feeling the cheap mobo/cpu/ram you got from the shop might not have been good?
If you dont mind my asking how much did you spend in total on spare parts + comet PC ?
Hope your new build it working out
No let me explain, when I was trying to fix my old PC I bought a new HDD for £30, a new mobo for £30, a new PSU for £30, a new second hand duel core CPU for £15 and one stick of memory for £8...I've already taken back the CPU, PSU, and memory and got money back for those 3. Now I just need to take back motherboard and PSU which am going to do either today or tomorrow.
So spent £123 on parts but I've got £53 back so far and just need to collect the £60 today.
And then the PC from comet is just a tower, no keyboard, mouse, monitor, just tower...so all am using in that tower is mobo/ram/cpu and the ram and cpu are really good, I'd say a lot better then my old rig that was over 3 years old anyway.
I've gone from
4GB DDR2
intel quad core q8200 @ 2GHZ
to
4GB DDR3
AMD Athlon X3 @ 3.1GHZ
Not sure about what motherboard the new one has, prob just a cheapy but my old mobo was a cheapy anyways.
In the new case I've put in my old corsair PSU, my old ATI HD 5770 1GB PCI-Express and my X-FI Extreme 5.1 PCI-Express.
So if I'd of got home and for and some reason not been able to put my graphics card and sound card in this case, I would have been dissapointed and yeah this PC would have sucked, it would have had speed from the CPU/ram but without the graphics capability to run games...but now its actually turned out to be a really good PC.
Am happy with it anyways, its turned out so much better then I expected.
Guess should just consider it as I spent £350 for mobo/cpu/ram and then I've just put in £60 PSU £150 gfx and £40 sound card.
So now I got speed, I got good graphics, I got amazing sound. I tried BC2 and couldnt believe how smooth it was. My last PC ran all games in high settings, every game you can think of, BC2, resident evil, assasins creed, dirt 3, duke nukem forever, AVP, mafia 2, crysis 2 everything you can think of. But my frame rate in games like BC2 especially would be around 40fps...
When I been playing BC2 on this PC I been getting 50-80fps on huge maps with 31 people in big open areas, only tried it for 5 mins last night before going to bed but it just felt so smooth, more smooth then ever before, felt amazing and really fluid.
I don't know much about AMD CPU's coz I been going Intel for past 6 years or so. I know with the intel side that the good CPU's are called i3, i5, i7, those are latest ones, but didnt know anything about these AMD ones or what they were equivalent to...but read some reviews online and it looks like a really good CPU.
Think its got 3 cores and 1.5mb cache memory.
Besides I didnt have any money at moment and thats why I used comet card so can pay later...usually I wouldnt have dreamed of buying a PC from comet or PC world lol, this is first time in my life I done this.
I usually order all parts separate and build it myself.
Am happy anyways, got a new PC, its faster then my old one, and not really spent that much as some people spend thousands.
Oh last thing tho, incase you didnt read above, am pretty confident both motherboards are broke and thats why neither setup worked, its the only explanation that makes any sort of sense, and when I take the motherboard back to the shop am going to ask them to test it, if they confirm then we've solved this whole problem, and I'll get a replacement and then job done, got two PC's.
The mobo will have onboard sound and gfx but prob wont use it for now, I'll wait a few months and then put my old gfx and sound back in it, and then upgrade this PC with new gfx and sound.
EDIT: Forgot to say, my friend is bringing me a brand new amazing case today, I ordered it for him from OCUK months ago but he didnt use it, I'm wanting to transfer the PC out of this case into the new case and then it will look like a proper good PC and have better cooling. I cant remember which one I chose for him on OCUK shop but i'll post back later to show you which one when he brings it.
Cheers people.
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