I've been given the task of spec'ing-up some new PC's for the local LAN center in Newcastle.
We'll essentially be selling off some of the old stock (17" CRT's, AMD 3200+, 1GB RAM, 6600GT) which is looking and performing in a rather dated manner. We're thinking about initially buying 10 of these new setups including, the box, new monitors, keyboards and mice.
I've unfortunately lost touch a bit with the hardware industry since my last upgrade for my PC at home back in late 2007, so I'm sure the wise OCUK forums can direct me where I've gone wrong.
With us buying them in a relatively large bulk, we're obviously trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, whilst still getting some near top-end stuff. Bearing in mind, these PC's we currently run have been going for the thick end of 2-3 years now, and weren't the best money could buy back then. Most of our clientel play the likes of DOTA, CSS, Battlefield, TF2, DODS and so forth, but we would like to be able to provide these with a high, stable FPS on some nice new monitors to provide an all-round much improved gaming experience.
We will be holding back some of the older hardware to provide some ideal Internet browsing setups whilst others can still game and not hog the higher-end hardware.
Here's what I've come up with.
Budget of around £700 per unit including VAT, with adequate scope for future-proofing and upgradability if possible. But if it comes to sacrificing that or performance, performance would take the priority.
I base a lot of what I've put up with personal experience with it. I've got the same monitor and processor in my PC at home, and currently have two servers running the processor, motherboard and RAM.
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We'll essentially be selling off some of the old stock (17" CRT's, AMD 3200+, 1GB RAM, 6600GT) which is looking and performing in a rather dated manner. We're thinking about initially buying 10 of these new setups including, the box, new monitors, keyboards and mice.
I've unfortunately lost touch a bit with the hardware industry since my last upgrade for my PC at home back in late 2007, so I'm sure the wise OCUK forums can direct me where I've gone wrong.
With us buying them in a relatively large bulk, we're obviously trying to keep the costs down as much as possible, whilst still getting some near top-end stuff. Bearing in mind, these PC's we currently run have been going for the thick end of 2-3 years now, and weren't the best money could buy back then. Most of our clientel play the likes of DOTA, CSS, Battlefield, TF2, DODS and so forth, but we would like to be able to provide these with a high, stable FPS on some nice new monitors to provide an all-round much improved gaming experience.
We will be holding back some of the older hardware to provide some ideal Internet browsing setups whilst others can still game and not hog the higher-end hardware.
Here's what I've come up with.
Budget of around £700 per unit including VAT, with adequate scope for future-proofing and upgradability if possible. But if it comes to sacrificing that or performance, performance would take the priority.
I base a lot of what I've put up with personal experience with it. I've got the same monitor and processor in my PC at home, and currently have two servers running the processor, motherboard and RAM.
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