Ballistic

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?

super_si

Price is the main factor

Si

Ballistic

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

ScoobyDoo555

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]

ScoobyDoo555

Some piccies






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

Huxley

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

Chris_

Some round IDE cables would look nice in your case.

ScoobyDoo555

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.....)

Sith

You PC Tart.

Kevin Greeley

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.

Richard Work

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

Ballistic

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?

super_si

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

Ballistic

SI

How much and why are you sellnig it?

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

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