Spec help - Gaming

[Daveh]

Hullo lads

Decided to give my old pc (s754 amd 3000 9800pro) & monitor to my gf (shes in her final year college)

Ill have approx £800 to spend on a SFF medium gaming pc. (CS, DoD, WoW, BF2)

Im including a new monitor in the budget Preferably a Widescreen 20inch?
Im a big fan of the Silverstone Sugo Case also!

I basically need everything APART from HDD, PSU keyboard, mouse and DVD/rw.

I would appreciate your insights and specs!
Would consider o/cing

Thanks Dave

PS: would you consider holding off until the AM2 comes out or will it be best to get a s939 due to price drop? Will I be making an obsolete PC if i buy now?

 

[Daveh]

aye, think your right mate

I tried spec myself one and I went over the budget by £128 (total £928)
AMD Opteron UP 144 San Diego 1.8GHz 1MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail
Silverstone Sugo SG01 Aluminium Mini PC - Silver (No PSU)
Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard
Belinea 102035W 20.1" Widescreen LCD Monitor
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV


Im sure I could scrape together another 150-200 quid if needs be.

If I make the budget to £1000 - what you reckon?

Thnks Dave

 

[Daveh]

Waster, I agree I'm spending more on the screen - I would tend to upgrade pc componants more regularly than I would a monitor so I consider it a bigger investment.

In addition the monitor will be hooked up to mac mini with Front Row/TV tuner.

As for the PSU I have one lying about. (mentioned in Spec)

If I upgrade the ram to 2gb (extra 50quid) what do you think?

Personally I feel the x1900 would be too much to spend, especially when I dont think I would notice the extra benefits - or am i wrong?

Thanks again
Dave

 

[Daveh]

thnks for your input lads.

Might consider dropping monitor size but I can stretch the budget to approx £1k I guess.

However I never thought of the O/c implications in a mtx factor as elminos pointed out.

Ill have a think/research anyhoo - sure its half the fun!

Thnks again
Dave