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Originally Posted by DocDutch
Punky, deffo ditch the 8800 as its not up to scratch for the more modern games coming out.
How much you thinking of spending as like Zing has said the i5's are out and about now and a mobo you can get for 85 Gigabyte P55-UD3 and the proccy at 150, only thing that you would need is memory for it and then you got a machine thats future proof 
so add in a 4870 or 90 and the 4gb of mem and you'll be on around 4 notes. |
Was hoping to spend as little as possible. Was thinking about going down the low-end quad core route at £200ish I didn't think was too bad.
As per Zing's advice, i'm looking at the core i5. The 750 is £150, mobo is £115-£130 (couple Asus jobs) but there really aren't many about yet. I've seen a couple for £80ish, but i'd rather get a SLI board so I at least got the option to get a 2nd hand 8800GT its a cheap n quick boost. For 4gb of DDR3 its abtou £50-£70 so:
Core i5 750, 4gb DDR3, Mobo = £330
Q8200, 4gb DDR2, Mobo = £220
is sort of how its looking.
I really wanted to avoid upgrading my graphics for another £70-£130 unless its necessary.
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Originally Posted by zing
TBH I am guessing the 8800GT will be holding up quite well seeing as most of the decent games hardly push the 4870 . I am sick of console clones ive just started playing Section 8 Unreal3 engine which is what 2 years old now and the engine was used in games prior to UT3. Hardly a push
MW2 I doubt will push the 4870 to the limits meaning the 8800GT should handle it fine also
If it wasnt for the fact I sold 2 high spec machines last year that were mine id still have the 8800GT in my machine
Punky is the machine you are still using the one I helped you build?
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It is indeed. I really wish I made sure I was buying a quad core mobo (I thought it was). Then I could just dump a quad core in there and a bit more RAM and it would have saved me a bit of money and agro.