Oli1983uk Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 started looking for new PC and wondered what you guys think of this one and how much do u think i should pay for it: AMD AM2 Athlon 64bit 3500+ CPU 1024MB Dual Channel DDRII RAM 16 X DVDRW Maxtor 160GB S-ATA 2 7200rpm Hard Drive 1.44mb Floppy drive Powerful Nvidia GeForce 7300GT 256MB Graphics 6 X USB 2 (2 x front 4 x rear) 10/100 Lan 7.1 Surround 3D 8 channel Audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marthuser Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 wow, thats like the same copm im planing to buy. I checked out a few sites and I can get it for just under $600AU, same specs, but the mobo is probably different, and I dont have a floppy drive, but I have a 200G HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triforce_keeper Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 i had 2gig ram, 3700 amd athlon 64bit 1mb, geforce 7600gt, 160gig harddrive with 19" moniter and keybaord speakers mouse etc for £960. I reckon you should pay around maybe £600? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEVILMURRAY Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Not from OverClockers by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Ninja0 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I suggest you use SATA RAID, i think it can give a burst of speed during loading times. You just use 2 SATA disks, set them in a raid and windows detects it as a single super-fast HDD. Anyone here have tried RAID that can give us impressions? The rest of the PC is damn good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabookerman Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Its pretty great if u ask me, the AM2 socket is totally new, so u wont have any problems upgrading cpu later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli1983uk Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 well its only the base unit i am looking at buying and can get it for £350 so it would be worth buying? i have parts from my current PC i could use on it, such as more ram and nother 160Gb hard drive. apprently the mother board can support upto 8GB of ram! its not from overclockers its from a computer compnay on Ebay it comes with a years warrenty aswell. Or i have also seen this one aswell, what one would you pick?: Intel Pentium 4 D805 Dual Core Processor 2 x 2.66Ghz Cores 2x1MB L2 Cache 1024MB (1GB) of super fast PC4200 DDR2 RAM 16 x Dual Format Dual Layer DVD±RW Maxtor 200GB 7200rpm Hard Drive Integrated ATI Radeon X300 based 2D/3D Graphics 6 X USB 2 (2 x front 4 x rear) 10/100 Ethernet Lan 7.1 Surround 3D 8 channel Audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbas Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Well it depends what are you using the PC for. The dual core pentium has great price/power ratio. And I would wait a while as there will be price drops in cpu's in the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli1983uk Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 the intel dual core system is £299, which i dont think is to bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Hmmmm, it may be AM2 but its a fairly slow chip. And if you're wanting to play games, don't expect much. That graphics card is a budget line one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 The proocessor is fine for games, but as Jordan said, the gpu is balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli1983uk Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 the GPU dont really matter as long as i can run simple games on it nothing major! what are peoples impressions of the Intel system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Absolutely stick with the AMD system, but be advised, even if you just wanna play simple or older games on it you really would be much happier with a 7600 or even just a 6600GT is a much better budget card. Apart from that it's a good system. Enough of everything there, your 3500 AMD2 and 1GB DDR2 RAM will serve you well. I only have a vanilla 3000, but it's still very capable of chucking it's own weight in Roman legionarres around the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Yea, go with the AMD. The intel system is duel core, but unless your massively overclock the cpu, it isnt that impressive. Get a 7600GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbas Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I'm advising that you go for the intel one. And the dual core helps if you encode lots of mp3's and generally multi-task a lot. For example you can play a game while encoding mp3's. It won't overclock really well (unless you're lucky). And the intel cpu is the cheapest dual core available. They launched it to compete with single core amd's. And if you don't know intel is making the most powerful chips at the moment. But the dual core is useful only if you use applications that can handle them. If used mainly for gaming, get the amd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Ninja0 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Just to let you guys know that AMD plans to ship AM3 socket in 2008. It will be retrocompatible with AM2, so no worries. I think the only difference is that it supports DDR3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Just to let you guys know that AMD plans to ship AM3 socket in 2008. It will be retrocompatible with AM2, so no worries. I think the only difference is that it supports DDR3. What, already? Wowserz, can't imagine DDR3 RAM will come too cheap though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbas Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Just to let you guys know that AMD plans to ship AM3 socket in 2008. It will be retrocompatible with AM2, so no worries. I think the only difference is that it supports DDR3. Erm... that's two years from now? The lifespan of a decent computer is about 3 years. I built this one in 2003 july. And it still does it's job. The next phase in the cpu wars will be interesting. As intel has managed to make a better performing cpu now. I'm just waiting for the amd price cuts. Then I'll be able to decide whether my next PC is an intel or an amd one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I'm advising that you go for the intel one. And the dual core helps if you encode lots of mp3's and generally multi-task a lot. For example you can play a game while encoding mp3's. It won't overclock really well (unless you're lucky). And the intel cpu is the cheapest dual core available. They launched it to compete with single core amd's. And if you don't know intel is making the most powerful chips at the moment. But the dual core is useful only if you use applications that can handle them. If used mainly for gaming, get the amd. Erm, if your referring to the Pentium d 805, you should really do a bit more research, it is one of, if not the most overclockable chip ever. It can easily be overclocked to 4Ghz most of the time. If you aren't referring to this, accept my apologies. They actually launched it to be the cheapest duel core and try to steal the market from AMD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marthuser Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 well, I thnik if you should wait for intels core 2 cpus to launch, supposed to launch on the 27th of July, then make a desicion, btw its still 775. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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