Spec me a couple of bits

Nefastus · 12 Feb 2006 at 22:11

Okay, my dad wants to upgrade some parts for our family computer (it is like so ancient right now!). His price range is from about £300 to £450. This must include a new processor, motherboard, memory, hardrive, dvd drive and of course a good graphics card (for my gaming too). If possible, could you inclube vat too? Thank you!

Nefastus · 12 Feb 2006 at 22:28

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.3GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Hardrive: 20gb Maxtor 2B020H1
Graphics card: NVIDIA 5200 128mb

I believe that is all I know about our system.

Nefastus · 13 Feb 2006 at 08:40

Quick question for you, Trigger. I do not think our present fan will do wonders for this, would you be able to find a good one that is within the budget?

Thanks!

Nefastus · 13 Feb 2006 at 16:28

If I switched a Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO² 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-101-SP) with a Sapphire X1600 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-114-SP) would that be better for my gaming? Also, would it run with the setup? Same if I went for a 200gb hardrive instead of a 160gb.

Thanks!

Nefastus · 13 Feb 2006 at 18:11

So a Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD) would be okay?