spec my dad a pc

[geeza]

This aging laptop with 128mb memory with windows 2000 on and norton is finally grinding to a halt. My dad wants a pc that is reasonably cheap but will play games like battlefield 2 and COD 2 (dx7 mode, he wont tell)

I play BF2 fine on a 2400xp, 2gb memory and a 9800pro. What sort of money would say £500-£600 buy (I have a new hard drive so he wont need one of those. )

im thinking something like a 6600gt not sure what processor/board/memory but it would be better if it could be slightly future proof (ie 2gb mem)

 

[geeza]

thanks

I was sort of going on a budget of -

cpu -£150
motherboard -£80
ram -£150
graphics £150
monitor -around £100

meaning an opteron setup with 6600gt and 2gig ram could almost be had

 

[geeza]

he wont be overclocking.

will that psu and case combo not just work 'out the box'

the 2nd spec will be better i think because a 17" screen will be big enough and a better graphics card will be better.

What is the 6800XT card like is it better than the X800GTO cards because im sure its cheaper?

thanks for the ideas by the way people

edid- wont the ATI Radeon X1600 XT at £129 be a better card?

 

[geeza]

K, i will be ordering soon, do the connections that i need come with it or do you need to buy them seperate? could you point me in the right direction for a 20-24pin and maybe also a molex-PCI-E connector

thanks

 

[geeza]

wouldnt it be easier to get a powersupply that worked without all these adapters? if so which one?

 

[geeza]

thanks, im gonna get him to buy some Gskill pc4000 memory, then ill give him my geil value and a 160gb hard drive. then ill be sorted for clocking my new opteron and he will have better memory also. cheers ACESHIGH