Looking at a new PC, seen this on the bay...Clicky

Gonna be using it mainly for surfing, email etc but do do a fair amount of photo editing (Nikon and PSP software mainly), not really intending to use it for gaming as I have a PS3 and 360, but want to be able to if I fancy it

Is the 8500GT graphics card gonna be a problem? Have a 6600GT in my system now and it's been pretty good but don't want the 8500 to be a bottleneck as the rest of the components seem pretty good. I use a 20" wide 1680x1050 if that makes any difference.

Any thoughts

Dave

 

It wil be rubbish for all modern 3D game i'm afraid.

It's only a 128 bit interface for a start, 800mhz clock and 400mhz ramdac. But then it's only a £35 card so that's to be expected.

Aria do a ATi 1950 pro with 512mb ram for £54.99 on their superspecials and will blow it away exponentially

 

Thanks for that mate, any idea what the above system would be like with a decent card, basically is the rest of the system any good or should I start a fresh

Cheers

Dave

 

The seller is trying to make a fast buck just like everyone else.

The processor is worth £170 inc vat

The motherboard is a cut down asus Micro ATX with not much expansion potential - i.e. single graphics card, inbuilt sound etc. Worth about £45

Graphics card - £35

Case and PSU - £35-£40

500gb hard drive £60

4gb of cheap and nasty brand ram - £80

Lite-on burner £16 inc vat

No operating system.

So in total - the cost to build yourself with identical components = £441 inc free delivery of components.

So if you can get it built and delivered for that, then its a cracking deal.

If it goes for near £600 - forget it, that would get you an decent graphics car, branded heatsinked ram and a proper overclockable motherboard.

 

Nice one fella, thanks for your help. Gonna rethink, not in any rush.

Cheers

Dave

 

You will have to get a 'properly overclockable' heatsink and decent case ventilation too if you overclock a Q6600 on air as they literally belch out heat. For most folks Q6600's are plenty quick in stock form