Some spec help needed.

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A mate of mine recently bought a new PC from 'where in the world' - I know, I know, I've told him before, but he doesn't listen!

Anyway, he wants to be able to play some games on it and especially so since S.T.A.L.K.E.R is out so he ran me a CPUZ report and it apperas his system has onboard graphics only and no Graphics card slot! So i told him he may need to replace his mobo and buy a decent gfx card to last him a few years.

His budget is £200'ish (can stretch a bit further if need be) to buy a new motherboard to swap his existing CPU, RAM etc over to and also a fairly decent'ish graphics card.

his CPUZ report can be found here

cpuz said:
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical)

CPU#1 APIC ID = 0
Name Intel Pentium 4 640
Code Name Prescott
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 4 A
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Package LGA 775
Core Stepping R0
Technology 90 nm
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T
CPU Clock Speed 2400.1 MHz
Clock multiplier x 12.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 200.0 MHz
Bus Speed 800.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 2048 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2400.1 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits

CPU#2 APIC ID = 1
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 640 (logical unit)


Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer DIXONSXP
Motherboard model RC4107MA-RS2H,
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS revision 6.00 PG
BIOS release date 09/05/2006
Chipset ATI RS400/RS400M rev. 01
Southbridge ATI SB400 rev. 80
Sensor chip ITE IT8712

Memory
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 DDR2 PC5300 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 DDR2 PC5300 - 512 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c
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Any help would be very much appreciated :)
 
mishima said:
I would get an Asus P5B and a nVidia 8600 (coming out soon).
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Need to get this pretty soon though so not sure if I can wait for the 8600, isn't that going to be expensive being a new card though?
 
If it has to be around £200 then this might be suitable, it won't be DX10 compliant though, not that it will matter for a year or two at least. The motherboard is good for overclocking as well. :)

Asus P5B (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Sub Total : £164.98
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
Vat : £30.32
Total : £203.55
 
semi-pro waster said:
If it has to be around £200 then this might be suitable, it won't be DX10 compliant though, not that it will matter for a year or two at least. The motherboard is good for overclocking as well. :)

Asus P5B (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Sub Total : £164.98
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
Vat : £30.32
Total : £203.55
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Excellent cheers, I may see if he can up some more reddies to go for a 512MB version of that card if there is one - is it DX10 compatible?
 
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