I have a 4 or 5 year old computer and I want to make a nice gaming comp as cheaply as possible.
2.66ghz Pentium 4 processor
Radeon 9800pro graphics card
P4S533-X ASUS motherboard
300 watt power supply
2x512mb 133mhz DDR RAM
2x 120GB IDE HDD
My situation is that I'm trying to save as much money as possible but I want to make something I won't have to upgrade again for a few years. I don't want to upgrade my hard drives unless I have to (Will this affect performance of most things?). I will be running Windows XP and using it for gaming mostly.
I was looking at the Q6600 for the processor because a lot of people here seem to like it but would a E6850 do a better job for gaming? I'd like to save even more on the processor and motherboard if possible I just don't want to bottleneck my gaming by having a bad processor. Best bang for buck with processor and motherboard please!
I was looking at ATIs 4850 and 4870 as choice of graphics card, would the 4850 overclock to be similar to the 4870? I don't want to spend unecessarily but I want to be able to run all games nicely.
I appreciate any help I wanna buy this soon!
PS: I don't want a new case, monitor, speakers etc etc.
edit: I forgot to mention I'd be willing to overclock the processor etc but I wouldn't want to spend a on keeping it cool, so only safe overclocking.
2.66ghz Pentium 4 processor
Radeon 9800pro graphics card
P4S533-X ASUS motherboard
300 watt power supply
2x512mb 133mhz DDR RAM
2x 120GB IDE HDD
My situation is that I'm trying to save as much money as possible but I want to make something I won't have to upgrade again for a few years. I don't want to upgrade my hard drives unless I have to (Will this affect performance of most things?). I will be running Windows XP and using it for gaming mostly.
I was looking at the Q6600 for the processor because a lot of people here seem to like it but would a E6850 do a better job for gaming? I'd like to save even more on the processor and motherboard if possible I just don't want to bottleneck my gaming by having a bad processor. Best bang for buck with processor and motherboard please!
I was looking at ATIs 4850 and 4870 as choice of graphics card, would the 4850 overclock to be similar to the 4870? I don't want to spend unecessarily but I want to be able to run all games nicely.
I appreciate any help I wanna buy this soon!
PS: I don't want a new case, monitor, speakers etc etc.
edit: I forgot to mention I'd be willing to overclock the processor etc but I wouldn't want to spend a on keeping it cool, so only safe overclocking.
