Ok some general advice is needed here.
I currently "roll" on a amd 3200 socket 939 single core, 1gb of ram with a pci express 6600gt (128mb of memory) 350 or 300watt tagan psu.
It has been THE best/most stable computer i have had full stop, its been turned on almost 24/7 since we built it how ever many years ago only shutting down for acts of god and os updates. Ahh! <3
Anyway:
I am about to buy a 24inch lcd which supports 1920x1200 and well although i only do general desktop work to keep this short what is the cheapest route to get into playing some recent ish games at a decent res?
I would be interested in CS 1.6 CSS and what ever random driving games are on the go
and play back of x264 encoded 1080p content.
If i am seeing it correctly i will need a new motherboard, a new cpu, new ram and a new graphics card (and hopefully NOT a new psu). Games became unplayable on it along time ago and i am not sure what the main bottle neck was but i guess it was both the cpu and the graphics card but perhaps the little 6600gt will have some live left in it after a cpu upgrade?
Money wise, are the cheapest ocuk "Bundles" good value and will either of the following be of use in terms of 1080p play back and games?
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) / Asus P5K SE-EPU (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard / GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Bundle - £174.77 inc VAT
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.80GHz Retail / Gigabyte M750SLi-DS4 / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle - £174.77 inc VAT
If so where should i go graphics card wise?
Other wise what bits should i pick? I think spending £300 max here would be interesting but of course if slighty more is needed then i am open to hear the suggestions and it should go with out saying i want to spend the min amount possible
(I do not need quadcore - once this little game fad dies off and it always does the only really long term requirement is 1080p video playback)
so,
1. Pick me some crap to get me on the right track for games + 1080p video (I assume cpu, motherboard, ram, graphics card)
2. Pick me some crap just to do the 1080p video playback (I assume just cpu + motherboard + ram)
Thanks for any one who inputs, it sure is hard work trying to buy computer related things when its space out so long apart.
I currently "roll" on a amd 3200 socket 939 single core, 1gb of ram with a pci express 6600gt (128mb of memory) 350 or 300watt tagan psu.
It has been THE best/most stable computer i have had full stop, its been turned on almost 24/7 since we built it how ever many years ago only shutting down for acts of god and os updates. Ahh! <3
Anyway:
I am about to buy a 24inch lcd which supports 1920x1200 and well although i only do general desktop work to keep this short what is the cheapest route to get into playing some recent ish games at a decent res?
I would be interested in CS 1.6 CSS and what ever random driving games are on the go
and play back of x264 encoded 1080p content.If i am seeing it correctly i will need a new motherboard, a new cpu, new ram and a new graphics card (and hopefully NOT a new psu). Games became unplayable on it along time ago and i am not sure what the main bottle neck was but i guess it was both the cpu and the graphics card but perhaps the little 6600gt will have some live left in it after a cpu upgrade?
Money wise, are the cheapest ocuk "Bundles" good value and will either of the following be of use in terms of 1080p play back and games?
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) / Asus P5K SE-EPU (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard / GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Bundle - £174.77 inc VAT
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.80GHz Retail / Gigabyte M750SLi-DS4 / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle - £174.77 inc VAT
If so where should i go graphics card wise?
Other wise what bits should i pick? I think spending £300 max here would be interesting but of course if slighty more is needed then i am open to hear the suggestions and it should go with out saying i want to spend the min amount possible
(I do not need quadcore - once this little game fad dies off and it always does the only really long term requirement is 1080p video playback)
so,
1. Pick me some crap to get me on the right track for games + 1080p video (I assume cpu, motherboard, ram, graphics card)
2. Pick me some crap just to do the 1080p video playback (I assume just cpu + motherboard + ram)
Thanks for any one who inputs, it sure is hard work trying to buy computer related things when its space out so long apart.
