It's time to sell my 3 year old Athlon 1.4Mhz Pc and build a new one.
I shall be using it mainly for playing driving games.
I'm a bit out of touch with all the new hardware developements so any recommendations as to what I should go for this time around?

 

Price is the main factor

Si

 

Got about £1k available.
Looking for recommendations for Processor, M/B, graphics, HD, memory, case etc.

 

I've just built the following -

ASUS A7N8X mobo (non-deluxe) £65
Athlon XP 2600+ £60
ATI 9700 DDR G.Card £130
Yamaha Speaker set (expensive but V.V ) £100
ATX brushed aluminium case with full LED/NEON light rig and MEGA Cooling £100
DVD Recorder (does virtually all of em)£150
60Gig 133 ATA Drive £100 i think (can't remember!)
512 Meg PC3200 Ram £100

All for about £700 ish (bought the g.card off ScoobyNet, otherewise would've been clse to £1K)

Opinion - monster!!! Very quick (compared to my old 1.3Athlon/100MHz system!!)

Dan
Like you, using it for driving games. Works brilliantly. Very happy

edited to add rough prices (got most of it from Novatech)

[Edited by ScoobyDoo555 - 8/31/2003 10:21:54 PM]

 

Some piccies






The mobo in the shots is my Asrock board - upgraded to the ASUS after about 4 weeks!!! pile of sh1te!!

 

Dan you'r a Muppet with all those Blues lamps



You wouldn't see me doing that

Nice spec Dan I think it's about time I looked about making mine a bit quicker

Huxley

 

Some round IDE cables would look nice in your case.

 

hmm, hadn't thought about them, but now you mention it....

Huxley - that's rich calling me a muppet - YOU started this with bulbs for the dashboard!!! I'm light-mad now!

PC's now really good - had a REAL nightmare with the ASROCK board (one was faulty, blew up the CPU & had to buy a replacement chip)

Novatech were EXCELLENT throughout the whole thing.

Dan

(just need some games that push the machine now.....)

 

You PC Tart.

 

Get a 2.4Ghz P4c with the 800fsb and hyperthreading. About £136 from Scan.

Currently running mine at a stable, cool 2.88Ghz and will be increasing gradually to 3Ghz.

Get some Adata DDR500 ram (cheap), then you can up the FSB to 250Mhz from standard 200Mhz and run 1:1 memory speed.

Consider getting 2 SATA drives and using Raid 0. These things are just so fast if you can afford to take the risk.

 

I ordered one of these from Soulgirl and I am well pleased :, it was around a grand and I didn't have to build it myself!

Chieftec Tower Case
QDI i865 Springdale Mobo
P4 2.6C 800fsb with HT tech running at 3.00GHz
Western Digital 120Gb SATA 8Mb Cache 7200rpm
Dlink 10/100 NIC
512Mb Crucial PC3700 DDR 400 in Dual Channel Mode
Pioneer DVD106 (Dual format DVD-R & DVD+R * 4 speed)
Creative Audigy 2 with built in Firewire (for video editing)
Creative Inspire 5.1 5100 Speakers
19" Monitor (up to 1600 * 1200 res)
Logitech Cordless Optical Mouse (plus rechargable dock station)
Keyboard
Floppy
Onboard Intel Graphics or GeforceFX 5600 Card (£100 extra)
8 * USB 2 Ports
Installed with Windows XP / Burning Software and Office Applications.

Definitely reccomended,

Cheers,

Richard

 

Thanks for the recommendations so far.
So far 2 people have suggested Intel instead of AMD, is the best option now for performance/value?
Which processor/MB option do you think offers the best performance/value combination with the capability to overclock?

 

Im expecting a P4 2.8 533Mhz chip anytime soon.
My other one had a turn for the worse
It'll be brand new and packaged if your interested??

SI

 

SI

How much and why are you sellnig it?

 

Performance against price AMD slaughters Intel in the value to mid range stakes. Top end Intel wins performance-wise.