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Obsolete
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anyone got any good ideas for my new pc spec?
looking to spend up to £800 (including a new monitor!)
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Whiskey
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Location: Belgium
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| Posted: 10 Mar 2008, 17:16 Post subject: |
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Case: ANTEC Sonata III (black, 500 watt, atx)
99,00 €
Mobo: GIGA-BYTE GA-P35-DS3L (P35, 1333 mhz, pci-e, ddr2, 8 channel)
76,27 €
Cpu: INTEL CORE 2 DUO E8400 (3.0 ghz, 1333 mhz, 6 mb, s775, 65 watt, boxed)
184,90 €
Ram: G.SKILL 4GBPQ (4096 mb, 800 mhz, CL5, 1.85 v, non-ecc, unbuffered, kit of 2)
86,00 €
Gfx: ASUS GeForce 8800GT (600 mhz, 512 mb, DDR3, 1800 mhz, 256 bit, 10, fan)
199,90 €
HDD: SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.10 (500 gb, sata/300, 8.5 ms, 7200 rpm, 16 mb, 3.5")
89,39 €
Monitor: 22" SyncMaster 226BW LCD Monitor
283.83 €
= 1.019,30 € = 777.30£
This doesnt include Mouse+KB or dvd-drive, but u can get that from your old pc i suppose.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
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Xavi
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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Location: North Yorkshire
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| Posted: 10 Mar 2008, 17:54 Post subject: |
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| maybe 2x 8600GT sli ?:D
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Sputs|uk
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| Posted: 11 Mar 2008, 13:37 Post subject: |
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If i had the cash this is what i'd be going for, it's well under your price range. Bare in mind this article is a few months old though, Oct 07, but i don't think you'll have a prob getting hold of the parts, if anything you might find you're paying less for what's on the list + better specs.
http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/ Buying all the parts from one place means you'll save on postage too. 
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Obsolete
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| Posted: 12 Mar 2008, 22:39 Post subject: |
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Think I know which PC i'm going for now:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO 2.40GHz Quad Core CPU Overclocked to 3.30GHz
- Tuniq Tower 120 Pro Blue LED Intel approved cooler
- Abit IP35-Pro Intel P35 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Crucial 2GB Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 CAS5 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 1000MHz+)
- 500GB Samsung Spinpoint 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card
- NEC AD7200S 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
- OCZ 600W Next Generation Power Supply
- Antec Nine Hundred Case
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Obsolete
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| Posted: 27 May 2008, 10:45 Post subject: |
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forgot to add what i finally got after this!
Q6600
Antec nine hundred case
nVIDIA 8800GT
500GB hard drive
2gGB ram
22" LG 2ms monitor
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[SiK]Demiveil
Joined: 16 May 2008
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Location: New Zealand
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CPU and graphics card are the same as what I have currently. It runs pretty nicely aye.
I have 4GB of RAM though.
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Obsolete
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| Posted: 28 May 2008, 08:28 Post subject: |
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I would have gone for 4gb, but didn't have the extra money at the time  , might upgrade in a few months though
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KillerNo99
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| Posted: 28 May 2008, 15:22 Post subject: |
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4GB is pretty useless as about 1GB remains unused as many programs and Vista itself only needs 3GB.
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ZerO
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i built a new, quite good pc to a friend of mine, for 505 euros, and it has:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ @ 2.8 GHz
Corsair 2GB Kit of 1066MHz DDR2 Mem.
Asus M2N-CM nv630a chip mobo / PCI_E
Seagate Maxtor 500GB 7200rpm 16mb cache HD
Samsung DVD-RW SATA Drive
Antec Sonata Plus 550W ATX
XFX GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB
And i think it is goood. on that 505 euro, no screen, kb, mouse, speakers or not even operating system
But i has one XP home OEM (dunno where i got it  ) and 19" lcd and 2.1 speaker and mouse and keyboard. i goint to sell it to him 650 e, dunno if it is too low price...
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mrselfdestruct
Joined: 26 Sep 2007
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Location: Usa
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Jesus, its great how cheap PC's are these days. I remember paying £1800 for a P200 with 8meg ram, Matrox Mystique 4mb gfx card, 1.2gb HD and win95 just so I could play Grand Prix 2 and Quake!! Happy dayz.....
lol lol lol. oh...and meh.
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