Spec me a PC for £400 already bought bits

Pimmo2000

Pimmo2000

Pimmo2000

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G/f needs a PC

£400 to spend

Need

1.Motherboard
2.CPU (quad)
3.Hard drive
4.DVD RW
5.Memory (8gb)

Got everything else.. including cooler for CPU.

Cheers guys. As close to £400 as possible please so I get the best parts.. to build the fastest PC for the money. :cool:
 
Future proofing, DDR2 prices will go through the roof when DDR3 becomes the norm, as with DDR1 now, Vista 64 will make use of the 8GB in time (Vistas memory boost or what ever its called), as more games are 64bit aware you will be able to preload levels, £100 for 8GB now.. why not ?
 
DDR2 prices will go through the roof when DDR3 becomes the norm,
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I dare say that will be a couple of years yet, by which point DDR2 will be cheap as chips and you can upgrade then. Ofcourse if your really determined to get 8gb of RAM you'd be far from stupid, but it wont add as much benefit as you'd think. Plus i think it'd make overclocking (which would give you a better performance boost than extra RAM) a bit of a nightmare.

According to Toms hardware the 8GB gives a massive increase in Vista 64
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Any chance on a link to that ?
 
DavidB said:
I dare say that will be a couple of years yet, by which point DDR2 will be cheap as chips and you can upgrade then. Ofcourse if your really determined to get 8gb of RAM you'd be far from stupid, but it wont add as much benefit as you'd think. Plus i think it'd make overclocking (which would give you a better performance boost than extra RAM) a bit of a nightmare.

Any chance on a link to that ?
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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Microsoft-Windows-Vista,review-30272.html

maybe massive is a bit much.. but read away
 
Well depends on what you are using the PC for. I would imagine that it would work wonders with programs like Photoshop / Corel. Sounds tempting :p
 
I've got 8GB, and the only time i've got close to using it up was when I had zbrush open with a model that had 25million polygons in (10X the amount in a scene in crysis) 3DSmax and photoshop with several high resolution documents open. Even then I had about 1GB+ memory left over.
 
Samione said:
I've got 8GB, and the only time i've got close to using it up was when I had zbrush open with a model that had 25million polygons in (10X the amount in a scene in crysis) 3DSmax and photoshop with several high resolution documents open. Even then I had about 1GB+ memory left over.
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My Point is that Vista learns which programs you use and pre loads !

As for £20 for 1 gb ... DDR3 isnt standard yet is it :rolleyes:
 
Pimmo2000 said:
My Point is that Vista learns which programs you use and pre loads !
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and?

No games use 4Gb or over, the only thing you could possibly want 8Gb of ram for is e-peen/very high levels of Photoshop and other image/video processing and possibly high loads of number crunching.
 
Samione said:
I've got 8GB, and the only time i've got close to using it up was when I had zbrush open with a model that had 25million polygons in (10X the amount in a scene in crysis) 3DSmax and photoshop with several high resolution documents open. Even then I had about 1GB+ memory left over.
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if i was buying now, i'd go for 8GB (at these prices i mean - £100 :eek: ). Personally, I have 4 GB and it's around 3GB use - more when loading games obviously.

I half agree with the guy that said he wont really need it. i know i dont need 8gig but when i get the chance i am taking it. it's so cheap - why not. Also, I was at this point with DDR and held out a while. when i came back the prices for DDR skyrocketed. simply put, i dont trust RAM prices. when i bought my 2GB g.skill set (DDR2), it was £120 from OCUK and was £160 weeks later. I'd be afraid now of getting 4GB and when coming back for 4 more, finding out that DDR3 prices plummeted and DDR2 prices shot up.

all IMO anyway
 
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