Yet Another Spec Me A System - Sorry :P

Carlm · 16 Apr 2006 at 09:38

Current Rig :

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
ABIT NF7
1GB of DDR
ATi Radeon 9700 PRO
Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW & Samsung 181T
+ Lost of differnt HDD's

Its fantastic super stable over the last few years. Time for a replacement!

I play Battlefield2, City of heros/villains and my 9700 pro doesn’t cut the mustard at 1920*1200 so I need an upgrade.

Dual core looks like the way to go and I’ve seen the 50% overclock stories about the 805 which looks good for a cheap chip, but would a X2 be better? ive always been an AMD man!

So I have £600-800 to spend or a bit more if its worth it. On a GFX Card, Motherboard, CPU, Memory and Heatsink+Fan ( Preferable as quite as possible, keep the GF happy :rolleyes:

)

On board 6.1 optical sound would be good to as my current nforce 2 mobo sound quality is fantastic in my own opinion.

Sata only is fine but a single ata port would be good if its not a comprimise

What do you all think?
Cheers.

bigvern · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:28

You could check out my signature. I built this recently and while it is not top of the range, it seems to play anything I throw at it. The 3700 is simple and very effective at overclocking, as is the 7800GT. The whole lot set me back around £600.

Carlm · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:28

Is that 7800 PCI-E or AGP?

Im guessing PCI-E is the only way to go if im getting a new motherboard

fenderbass86 · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:39

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) - Price: £169.95 (£199.69 Including VAT at 17.5%)
MSI K8N Neo4-F nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-053-MS) - Price: £57.95 (£68.09 Including VAT at 17.5%)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) - Price: £89.95 (£105.69 Including VAT at 17.5%)
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) - Price: £214.95 (£252.57 Including VAT at 17.5%)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) - Price: £15.95 (£18.74 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Total - £644.78

Carlm · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:50

Thanks for that fender. My Current ram is PC3200 Cas 3, so i should be able to get away with using that. Ram speeds havent moved on much in the last few years then.