Spec Help please :)

Thomo · 14 Jun 2006 at 20:06

Hi could anyone help me with a decent spec for around £400 - £550 I've been looking around the site but i haven't built anything for so long it appears i know next to nothing!

At present i have Athlon xp 2000
512 Ram
Geforce Fx 5700

So something that would give me a good performance increase over this would be good

Ideally I'd like something that would be able to play HL2 / Doom with fairly decent eye candy

But i'm not sure if this will be available with my budget.

Also would have the pre built systems on here be worth the money, or would i get better value for me poundage buying individual parts and building a system myself.

Many Thanks in advance

Thomo

Thomo · 14 Jun 2006 at 20:19

Sorry

No need for a monitor,

But everything else including new case, psu etc... I have Seagate hd 7200 Sata-II 8 mb Cache that i bought in error for another PC

If i can use this all the better if it would be no use then not to worry.

Thanks

Thomo · 14 Jun 2006 at 20:46

Thankyou both for the replys. I know its a very subjective question in asking "which one is the best" but i'm going too anyway

Murzo your spec doesn't have a heatsink included in it is this because the CPU is retail and hence has one included?

Also the main difference appears to be around the board and the Graphics cards I apologuise for my simplyness but the cards are fundimentally the same but different brands? is there any performance difference between them?