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| Author: | rykard [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Confused newbie looking for help |
HI, I am looking to replace my aging machine, Athlon 64, with a new build. I wan tot be able to play the latest games (driving esp) on it as well as using it for some work ( MS Office/SQL etc). I have a budget of around £600. Looking in various mags/websites it is all getting a little confusing as to what to spec... I have keyboard, mouse and a monitor that will hopefully be ok. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? thanks in advance Rich |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
Can you post what you currently have? It may well be that things like Case, PSU, Hard disks and Optical drives can be salvaged from the old machine... |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
Are you willing to build it yourself? Do you need an operating system included in that price? What monitor do you have; what's the resolution? What's the most graphically challenging game you want to play? What's more important; raw speed or lots of storage for films etc? £600 will buy you a very respectable box, but I'll let the hardware nuts do the recommendations. Welcome to x404 
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
Hmm box only for £600 (including software I assume) Prices all taken from www.scan.co.uk as easy to quickly navigate:- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR, Intel P45 Express - £74 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 - £94 CPU cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro v2 - £18 Ram: 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 - £87 Hard Drive: 500GB Samsung HD502HJ Spinpoint F3 - £38 Graphics: 1GB Asus HD5770 - £121 PSU: 520W Coolermaster Real Power M520 Modular PSU - £56 Case: Coolermaster Elite 334 Black Midi Tower - £29 O/s: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM - £79 Total £596. I looked at a system built around the Intel i5 750 which would be a fair bit quicker but your budget would have to be around £700 mark to do that as cpu around £140 and ram £120 |
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| Author: | rykard [ Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:23 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help | |||||||||
My current system as follows.. Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 256 kilobyte primary memory cache 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: RS/RX482SB400 Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 08/12/2005 Drives Memory Modules c,d 1407.36 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 808.13 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space PHILIPS DVDR1628P1 [CD-ROM drive] (Doesn't read properly) 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] BUFFALO External HDD USB Device [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 1 EPSON Stylus Storage USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3 HDT72252 5DLAT80 USB Device [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 2 WDC WD1600BB-00GUC0 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAL96534143, rev 08.02D08, SMART Status: Healthy 960 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'A0' has 512 MB Slot 'A1' has 512 MB Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0) 157.41 GB f: (FAT32 on drive 2) 249.99 GB g: (FAT32 on drive 1) 999.96 GB ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series [Display adapter] Philips 170C [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n BZ 439175, August 2005) I would prefer not to build myself, but have access to someone who can. |
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| Author: | boothy_1993 [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
i dont think he will need a hdd lol, hes already got nearly 1.5 tb |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:42 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help | |||||||||
Yeah but two of them are external.  New high-capacity SATA drive FTW. |
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| Author: | rykard [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
HI, could do with a reasonable amount of internal storage. Not too sure of the monitor but I guess I can get a new one after the box if needed. Is there anywhere that rates the latest crop of processors in order of 'power'? It used to be fairly simple amd or intel but now it is soooo.. confusing.. |
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
Could try www.cpubenchmark.net Processor list is here http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html |
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| Author: | rykard [ Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
thanks , that is some good info |
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| Author: | hifidelity2 [ Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
If you dont want t build it yourself then someon like PC Specalist http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ have generally good reviews and will do box only solutions |
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| Author: | andytw [ Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
Something like this should do if you want ready built. As it was reviewed in October you should be able to get something similar but with a better graphic card now. |
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| Author: | boothy_1993 [ Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused newbie looking for help |
i did not notice the external bit 
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