Spec me a machine between 1-1.5k... please :)

[Fireskull]

Exactly gaming and net. No gaming will be done but as a web developer if I had to develop everything in Safari I would cry oh well the up point of this is no more IE

Design work I have always found PC's to be perfectly fine for, although to be fair I have never used a Mac for it.

Anyways thanks for your help everyone, you rock. Will let you know what I go with

hehe of cource theyre fine, i was just pointing out that if they are already using macs then mabie you should give them a try

 

[Mort]

Turns out they want a PC in the office for checking sites in a windows environment anyways, and suits me this way too!

Sorry to bump an oldie, but are all these prices / specs still roughly valid, or for the money is there better stuff out now?

 

[Cartho]

Here you have 2 very nice quality TFT's, decent graphics

I love this, since when did an 8800 GTS become only "decent"?
The 8800 GTS blows any other single card setup out of the water, apart from an 8800 GTX - in guru 3D benchmark tests it wiped the floor with an X1950 XTX....

To be honest I would only adise an 8800 GTX if you have a totally ridiculous amount of cash to spend, it is frankly overkill, as an 8800 GTS will do the job just as well, for £150 less.

Maybe in 2008, when DX10 games are becoming the norm, then you might appreciate the extra rendering power of a GTX, but you could still overclock the GTS and get amazing results.

 

[Mort]

most of the mobo's that support core duo are only crossfire ready, that mean ATI cards only or....?

 

[Cartho]

it does not mean ATI only, but I think I am right in saying that a Crossfire MTB cannot support SLI? Or does it matter? A Cross Fire compatible MTB will be able to run ATI or Nvidia in a single card setup.

I would also have thought that since it is just a matter of what cards you put in, and all you need to do to link them together is attach either a Crossfire or an SLI bridge - so surely provided you have 2 PCI E slots in the MTB, it does not matter - it is not the slot that decides whether it is ATI or Crossfire, it is the card (and the bridge)

I am not 100% positive on this though, perhaps someone could clear it up?

 

[semi-pro waster]

it does not mean ATI only, but I think I am right in saying that a Crossfire MTB cannot support SLI? Or does it matter? A Cross Fire compatible MTB will be able to run ATI or Nvidia in a single card setup.

Correct, the motherboard will support ATI or Nvidia graphics cards (or indeed any other PCI-E graphics cards you can find). The dual graphics card technologies aren't designed to be interchangable, there are sometimes bios flashes/hacks that can allow you to run SLi on a Crossfire motherboard or vice versa but I certainly wouldn't count on it.

Most of the prices haven't changed too massively apart from possibly the graphics cards which have dropped somewhat.

 

[-Nick-]

def go for a corsair psu, lovely and quiet

 

[Mort]

def go for a corsair psu, lovely and quiet

did just that

the rest of the office use mac G5's so this thing is prob going to cause quite a racket with 3x120's and 1x200 fans

 

[TweedleDum]

I love this, since when did an 8800 GTS become only "decent"?
The 8800 GTS blows any other single card setup out of the water, apart from an 8800 GTX - in guru 3D benchmark tests it wiped the floor with an X1950 XTX....

To be honest I would only adise an 8800 GTX if you have a totally ridiculous amount of cash to spend, it is frankly overkill, as an 8800 GTS will do the job just as well, for £150 less.

Maybe in 2008, when DX10 games are becoming the norm, then you might appreciate the extra rendering power of a GTX, but you could still overclock the GTS and get amazing results.

Sorry to bring this old post back into the limelight, just thought i better say something. If you READ the post of the spec that i made, i specifically specced an 8800 GT"S" not a sodding GT"X". So, i would appreciated it if you read my post before slating me. Thanks.