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drunkenfool |
posted on 11th Jul 06 at 11:54 |
Whoops, its the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 :P | |
Reedy |
posted on 11th Jul 06 at 08:25 |
quote: There is no such thing as a ATi 6600, there is an NVidia 6600. Are you sure you dont mean an X1600?? | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 11th Jul 06 at 00:18 |
Then id say a gig of RAM (2 if you're being greedy ;) ) again, dont go for cheap stuff here. Crucial are pretty well known and very reliable. | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 11th Jul 06 at 00:14 |
Ive gone for AMD every single time, the 4000+ 64 bit has gone down in price quite a bit since i got it and does the job pretty well, unless you actually WANT to spend £800 on your pc theres not much point in going much faster at the moment cos the price increases start getting silly. Ive always used asus or abit motherboards and never had a problem, its def worth spending a few £ more and not getting a cheapo one. | |
Simon |
posted on 10th Jul 06 at 22:01 |
Have been having a look about now, everything seems pretty simple apart from getting the motherboard processor and graphics card right, any suggestions? Intel or AMD? decent graphics cards? | |
ed |
posted on 10th Jul 06 at 17:40 |
quote:I think my system is a bit on the excessive side then :lol: Never mind... | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 10th Jul 06 at 11:28 |
PS - Cheapest TFTs in the UK at the moment are from aria (same place as the R/C Helicopters :lol:) @ £93.94 including VAT when the super specials are on. | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 10th Jul 06 at 11:27 |
well i built a pretty well specced PC for £420 as i said including 17" TFT and all the other bits and bobs, another £400 on top of that would see a lot of upgrades to the spec i posted. | |
ed |
posted on 10th Jul 06 at 08:38 |
Huh? He has to still buy screens and stuff £800 wont stretch that far will it? Or maybe my computer is a bit on the excessive side :lol: Just the computer cost me about £750 :lol: | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 22:27 |
If you got £800 to play with, get one of these too. Would love one but cant afford it :lol: | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 22:25 |
she wanted it on a budget but with decent ish specs, not into hardcore gaming or anything. I got the 4000+ in mine with 1GB of RAM and 1350GB HDD :lol: | |
Daniel_Corsa |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:58 |
quote: Buy some more RAM for that spec, should seem some excellent gains! I've got the 3300+ Athlon 64 with 2gb RAM its quite ermmmm quick | |
drunkenfool |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:40 |
£800 you could get a bit of a monster, i just built an AMD 3500+, 300GB SATA, 512MB RAM, DVD RW for £420 including 17" TFT, keyboard, mouse, speakers and 1GB Pen drive for someone. | |
Simon |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:36 |
Yeah ed becomes pretty demanding, especially on an old laptop. | |
MikeD |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:32 |
Do you know what spec you want? | |
ed |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:31 |
Same reason I upgraded my computer. It was too slow for the CAD I do... | |
Simon |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:21 |
cheers people, the reason I need a new one is because im starting my 3rd year of architecture and my laptop cant hack the drawing, modelling applications so am going to want it pretty high spec to deal with these | |
MikeD |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:16 |
Case | |
ed |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 21:16 |
The cables ought to come with the various parts you buy. | |
Rob R |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 20:44 |
motherboard | |
Simon |
posted on 9th Jul 06 at 20:31 |
I've never built one myself but have a good computer understanding and have a few mates that have done it before. I want to build a new one for when I start back at uni in september so am just researching now. |