Spec me please!

Khashul

Khashul

Khashul

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Okay, so after all the heartbreaks I've had with the HIS AGP graphics cards I guess im back to square one.

Im getting a full refund for it and its going to go towards a new computer and though I have a rough idea of what I want but I need some help choosing the bits.

Im going to uni in September so i want a machine that will last me through the 3 years of that with as little upgrading as possible. Im going to be doing a game development course so i need something powerful and that could be easily upgraded when needed. It needs to be powerful but also run smoothly with lots of programs open etc so it needs a lot of memory. It will be used for gaming though and thats where the difficulty come in because of the graphics card. I guess I do need DX10 but im not a fan of nVidia :( Im also a big fan of AMD over Intel for numerous reasons. I need a lot of space aswell, so a big case and quite a few PCI slots for a couple of things.

My budget is about £600-£700 really, though I will most likely buy things in installments in correlation to my payday :) I have a very decent power supply so Im okay for that.

Really appreciate all your help.

Martin
 
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Over budget sorry!

As for you loyalty to AMD, I've specced you an Intel system because it would very foolish not to get a C2D as the performance outclasses anything AMD offers. Especially as you are building a new system.

Got a Nvidia card in as it's the lowest priced DX10 card.
 
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Khashul said:
Well, the price can be taken down a bit, I have the PSU :)

How would the GTS fare up against some of the other 8800 cards?
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Sorry bit hungover at the moment :p missed the bit about your PSU, I've edited my original post.

The GTS is slower AFAIK it is slower clock/memory speeds, less stream processors :confused: but still very good.
 
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