What to do !

Sooty1977 · 9 May 2007 at 07:41

Hi guys i aint been around for ages as i built my pc like three years ago i think it was and it is time to start a fresh so need some help please.
I have a budget of around £1200 -£1300
And have no idear were to start realy but what i do know is i do not need a monitor keyboard mous ect ect all i need is a pc with an operating system and it will be mainly a gaming pc
At the min i have a p4 3.2 with 2 gig of ram and agp ati x800xt gcard so was also wondering will i see big difrence in performance at all with the new pc
Any help and idears will be most apreciated thx

Will_3rd · 9 May 2007 at 09:11

Here something I knocked together in budget, might want change the M/B as iirc someone said that the ASUS boards are better for clocking Quad Core CPUs

Egosh · 9 May 2007 at 09:59

instead of the quad core which he'll have no use for right now get the e6600 or a e6700 if youre not planning on overclocking and maybe a gtx instead of a gts depending on the games he plays etc.

Will_3rd · 9 May 2007 at 10:27

Egosh said:
instead of the quad core which he'll have no use for right now get the e6600 or a e6700 if youre not planning on overclocking and maybe a gtx instead of a gts depending on the games he plays etc.

would disagree, the e6600 maybe but the 6700 is just a waste of cash unless your a complete fool

Egosh · 9 May 2007 at 10:32

the quad cores £340 and its not a waste of money? its supposed to be a gaming machine and most games dont even use 2 let alone 4 cores...if hes not overclocking whats wrong with getting the fastest processor he can afford? surely spending £200 on a e6700 is a lot smarter than spending £340 on a processor that wont be fully utilized..

Will_3rd · 9 May 2007 at 10:35

if he's not clocking he might as well get an AM2 system, waste more cash

Egosh · 9 May 2007 at 10:40

why he's not on any sort of tight budget...you dont have to be a mad overclocker to buy intel chips

fastwunz · 9 May 2007 at 11:54

no REAL need for 4gig of ram either imo

Dureth · 9 May 2007 at 12:52

For crying out loud people for his budget a quad-core, 4GB, GTX system is fine. It's within his budget and gives him the best performance for his money. Go with the spec above, its pretty much spot on.

Egosh · 9 May 2007 at 12:56

how would a quad core improve performance in applications and games that dont use 4 cores?

Will_3rd · 9 May 2007 at 13:46

Dureth said:
For crying out loud people for his budget a quad-core, 4GB, GTX system is fine. It's within his budget and gives him the best performance for his money. Go with the spec above, its pretty much spot on.

High five

Sooty1977 · 9 May 2007 at 17:56

Thx for the spec guys i will take it all on board !
As long as i see a good increase in performance over the old pc i am happy

I will be mainly playing games such as il2 gtr2 battelfild 2.

Jaffa_Cake · 9 May 2007 at 18:00

Sooty1977 said:
I will be mainly playing games such as il2 gtr2 battelfild 2.

That system could run America!! But then again..

Sudden_SD · 9 May 2007 at 18:16

Great spec by Will_3rd.