sub £400 system spec

Micronaut · 13 Jun 2007 at 16:49

Hello,

I am about to purchase the following kit (currently have 3ghz p4 northwood / abit max3 / 1gb pc4000 / 6800GT)

MSI K9N NeoF nforce 550 (AM2) DDR2 motherboard
Corsair 2gb DDR2 PC5300C5 (2x1gb)
AMD 64 X2 Dual core 5000+ 2.6ghz AM2
BFG 8600GT
Antec Sonata III case.

~£360.43

I need the system to run supreme commander, oblivion, & GTR2. In the future I would like to run starcraft II Unreal 3 and maybe crysis. I would be prepared to upgrade the graphics card in a year to run the new games.

Any opinions?

Thanks for any assistance.

stickroad · 13 Jun 2007 at 16:52

Hey Micronaut, what are you doing, you seem to of created 4 threads exactly the same?

RJC · 13 Jun 2007 at 16:53

what with the 4 new threads in five minutes! :confused:

Edit: Core 2 duo best way to like Paulus said, also they overclock far better
than AMD.

Rob

Paul11 · 13 Jun 2007 at 16:53

assuming the quad posting was a mistake ..........

intel core2duo probablly a better bet at the moment than an AMD....

p4radox · 13 Jun 2007 at 16:58

The forums were going really slow, perhaps he clicked "submit thread" several times.

Go for Core 2 Duo, it's a much better option:

Do you have a PSU?

Micronaut · 13 Jun 2007 at 17:07

p4radox said:
The forums were going really slow, perhaps he clicked "submit thread" several times.

Go for Core 2 Duo, it's a much better option:

Do you have a PSU?

Thank you for your help.

I have an enermax 450W PSU. Would I need to upgrade to £500W for the 8800 card?

p4radox · 13 Jun 2007 at 17:16

Micronaut said:
Thank you for your help.

I have an enermax 450W PSU. Would I need to upgrade to £500W for the 8800 card?

Nah, 450W is plenty.

You may also want to invest in a better CPU cooler.

A Noctua would keep the chip nice and cool at 3GHz if you were to overclock (which you should) and also be silent.

Micronaut · 15 Jun 2007 at 09:45

p4radox said:
The forums were going really slow, perhaps he clicked "submit thread" several times.

Do you have a PSU?

Thanks very much for your replies. I will be ordering this setup when I get paid next week. Would it be worth dropping the extra £20 on the P35C_DS3R motherboard for Penryn, or would that only be a marginal speed increase compared to waiting for the Bloomfield chipsets in 2008? I understand this is all crystal ball "who knows".

p4radox · 15 Jun 2007 at 09:55

I've no idea, sorry.

Personally I wouldn't bother with the P35, but that's because I always upgrade everything at once, every 2 or 3 years.

Columbo · 15 Jun 2007 at 09:57

Dont get the DS3, worst mobo I've ever bought. Layout is cack.

Micronaut · 15 Jun 2007 at 11:07

p4radox said:
I've no idea, sorry.

Personally I wouldn't bother with the P35, but that's because I always upgrade everything at once, every 2 or 3 years.

Thanks all. That's the same time scale I have been upgrading. I will go with the original spec and upgrade when another step change occurs in the technology.

Thanks for the warning on the P35.