Putting the 200mhz to rest
 

I'm at last getting a new PC. :D

Does this spec seem ok? any advice?

Kind Model Model Num Price INC VAT Shop
DVD Panasonic 16x48 IDE Internal DVD Drive - OEM SR8588XXXX £ 26.67 Ebuyer
CDRW LG 52x24x52 IDE Internal CD-RW - OEM GCE8520BB £ 30.96 Ebuyer
FLOPPY Panasonic Floppy Drive 1.44mb - OEM JU-257A907P £ 5.68 Ebuyer
HD Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive †“ OEM UDMA100 £64.62 Ebuyer
MB Asus P4P800 "Springdale" (Socket 478) Motherboard) (MB-025-AS) £91.53 Overclockers.co.uk
PRO 2.67GHz (PG-800FSB) HT Intel Pentium ® 4 CPU 512k Cache £176.56 Scan.co.uk
OS Microsoft XP Home OEM £65.36 Ebuyer
GRAP ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB £242.30 Spotuk.com
RAM 512MB DDR PC3200 £68.14 Crucial.com/uk

I don't mean to brag :blah:

Same motherboard as myself :) Very nice setup.

All you need now is a nice clear panel case with neon light ;)

More ram, faster processor and the 9800 radeon, imo:)

Thanks I can put that money saved to more ram:D

Err, can I have a link I can't find it:shrug:

Junk the XP and install Linux. Spend the savings on more RAM.

MrSums

Damn beat me to it :-)

In regard to the RAM, you've got plenty esp in conjunction with the GFX card; that is unless you want to run a server.

Regards,

Ben

HDD - Should be able to get 100 or 120gb for that price - shop around (I use www.Scan.com and www.cclcomputers.co.uk)

think tricky means www.scan.co.uk

Cheers!! :)

HD Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive †“ OEM UDMA100 £64.62 Ebuyer
personally id spend the extra pennies and go for the WD 120gig with 8mb of cache.

RAM 512MB DDR PC3200 £68.14 Crucial.com/uk
Go for 2 of them, but make sure you buy registered! youll notice the performance.

MB Asus P4P800 "Springdale" (Socket 478) Motherboard) (MB-025-AS) £91.53 Overclockers.co.uk
PRO 2.67GHz (PG-800FSB) HT Intel Pentium ® 4 CPU 512k Cache £176.56 Scan.co.uk

DEAR GOD WHY INTEL!?!?? save your self a tonne and go for the AMD Barton stuff, get a good HSF and clock that baby all the way to Hell temperatures and laugh at poxy intel stuff ;-) 800mhz fsb dont mean squat if your peripherals dont come upto speed... so why waste that cash? www.overclockers.co.uk do the 3000+ for around the same as you're paying for 2gig.

:tu:

Hmm...imagine a Barton 3200+ with Corsair XMS 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 running Sync in dual channel mode on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe V2 and a blue Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro with a mild overclock on the GPU. :romance: :romance: :romance:









Oh sorry, I don't know what came over me....:eek: :disturbd: :erm: :D

In the benchmark tests intel seem more cost effective to me,

Yeah...like an extra £100 for a tiny bit more performance... ;)

Oh fer cryin out loud,

Why not an opteron, dual opteons infact, after all its a home desktop machine and 32_bit is dead! Heaven forbid that they should be squandered on the server market :D

Ben

Though in all honesty :) id like the new MP chips... Dual 3000+

And they'll also help cut down on heating bills in the winter :)

Personally I've got my eye on a dual 400Mhz Alpha. Beautiful, beautiful chip.

Best,

Ben

Aye... shame they're dead :( replaced by the itanium stuff now

Cheers The_Real_DJ - I did, what's you get for using favorites all the time...:D

*points* ive been to Scan HQ in bolton :) cheaper than P+P for me as i live down the M56 from it basically less than an hours drive. looks better than microdirect thats for sure :)

Neither do I, clean it up:D

All these recommendations, and no one has asked what will its main function will be.

Isn't that a bit like walking into PC (Hell)World and saying I wanna buy a PC - and people wonder why they get stiched up.

Of course if money is no object then get the most mhz/mem/disk space currnetly available, otherwise it surely makes sense to consider the use its put to, to make better targeted purchases

You mean there are other uses than for gaming:eek: :D ?

I believe there are - must seem like heracy to some I know- but there are poor souls hunched over hot word processors, others thrown into spreadsheet cells with no hope of release

Anyway I'm sure you get my point - using the Ferrari (what do you mean you don't have a Ferrari, went over budget on the PC then eh!) to do the shopping might be fun but not the best tool for the job.

Tongue firmly in cheek

It's a family PC for work, email, internet.

BUT :mad: I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with laggy, not max resolution gaming:mad: anymore!!!

And I desgined this spec myself so I think it's quite obvious it is for gaming -unless I've done something wrong and not realised it.:eek:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10652

i want one of those :)

I say again: :)

More ram, Soltek NForce board, Athlon CPU and I would personally go for the NVidia graphics solution...

and get the ram as 2 sticks so you can take advantage of the dual channel DDR option on the Soltek board (which can handle 3Gb of DDR400 in dual channel mode)