I think my PC setup is a bit unbalanced - how about this?

[cookie_365]

OK, so this might just be an excuse for me to spend a bit of £, but I love shopping

At the moment I've got an AMD x2 4200+, 1 Gb memory, and a 7300 LE with 512Mb

I'm getting the feeling this is a bit unbalanced - fast processor but not very much memory and a slow graphics card. It took about 30 minutes to demux a 7 Gb mpeg today.

So I reckon to spending me some money

I'm thinking of 2 sets of this to get me to 4 Gb

Not too sure about graphics card though - I don't really play games.

Ones that caught my eye are:

256M Gigabyte NX86T256H 8600GT
256MB Gainward 8600GT Silent
512MB Gigabyte 8600GT Silent

What do you techies reckon to those?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MY-058-GL this ram

as for gfx how 8800gts http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=GX-039-BG

or is that 100 quid to much lol the 8600gt with 512 maybe the way to go

[Tightscot]

what sort of budget do you have?

[Down the Pub]

bloody hell zing, that ram is a steal, same stuff as i've got and very decent. also have that card and no qualms in recommending it either, was a bit hesitant at first but bio(crap-me-pants)shock runs settings near enough maxed and moh-airborne looks sweet , and the free bfg t-shirt and stickers clinched the deal.

Ive been running that ram for a while it clocks well and is sweet I think im gonna buy another set too

[cookie_365]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MY-058-GL this ram

as for gfx how 8800gts http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=GX-039-BG

or is that 100 quid to much lol the 8600gt with 512 maybe the way to go

Thanks Zing - that's definitely £100 too much - well, maybe £75 too much.

It's a pity OC dont do the Gigabyte card too - it's a pain having to put in lots of little orders

[Tightscot]

This Card is cheaper, and although not DX10'd up, it'll wee all over your 7300

defo get that ram though, nice price!!

but the geil ram is better imo to the corsair ive had a fair number of faield corsair sticks in recent history so do not touch it anymore. Do scan not have the geil?

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Originally Posted by Tightscot

This Card is cheaper, and although not DX10'd up, it'll wee all over your 7300

defo get that ram though, nice price!!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=56&subcat=404

this ones better value

[Tightscot]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=56&subcat=404

this ones better value

true. but my one looks prettier... :p

[cookie_365]

Originally Posted by Tightscot

what sort of budget do you have?

Budget?

Honey, I don't do budgets

Come on, don't start making me question whether I'm just buying things for the sake of it

Originally Posted by Tightscot

true. but my one looks prettier... :p

I wouldnt keep the stock cooler

[hjf288]

8600gt is a waste of money.

Get the 8800gts you wont regret it... 8600gt can barely handle DX10 titles now so when the next set come out your gonna be fetching for a new card if you wanna enjoy the full prettyness and thats gonna cost more.

Dont skimp now and it'll pay off later..

[punky]

Graphics cards don't speed up video conversion... But you could do with another graphics card in case you want to get into games.

Originally Posted by hjf288

8600gt is a waste of money.

Get the 8800gts you wont regret it... 8600gt can barely handle DX10 titles now so when the next set come out your gonna be fetching for a new card if you wanna enjoy the full prettyness and thats gonna cost more.

Dont skimp now and it'll pay off later..

that being true the best advice would be buy a 1950 pro now buy a dx10 card after the revision

[hjf288]

Im waiting for Nvidias 9xxx line hopefully it will be decent and continue to trounce AMDs offerings...

Their 2900XT really missed the target >_<