Budget gaming PC spec please...

[Bacardi]

A friend of mine requires a spec for a £200-£300 (maximum) machine primarily used for games. I've given her a fair bit of advice and we've come up with a rough spec but I'd prefer it if one of you all could put a recommended list together...(yeah hi urban, lol) A case isnt neccessarily required as we may salvage the atx one from her old system.

Thanks.

Gaz

 

[Bacardi]

no one wanna give there $0.02?

 

[MentaL]

Celeron!! Best Cpu In The World!!!! Joking aside....


AMD 64 3200 maybe for that price.

 

[Rebel.]

You forgot to add if you need mouse / kb / monitor
etc

 

[MentaL]

Ebay for monitor just buy a cheap 50quid 19inch cft......

 

[Rebel.]

That £50 could buy you some more RAM ^.^

 

[JealY]

That £50 could buy you some more RAM ^.^

Yet, more ram isn't very handy without a monitor

/J34lY

 

[Neptune]

AMD 64 3200 maybe for that price.

that will be the best ull get for that price m8.

but looking at these HDD

Master Drive >>74gb scsi hard drive (raptor)

Slave drive >>250GB sata 7200 silent

^^^^
they will run in a AMD well sweet m8 just bear in mind these rnt cheep but its sumin to look at for wen u get it

 

[Bacardi]

rofl Jealy. avatar ripoff? :P

 

[JealY]

Yessums ^^. But mines better, weee :P.

/J34lY

 

[Bacardi]

change to the other forum theme n maybe u'll see that uve got a few px white outline round the feather than needs trimming and blurring. im flattered u liked my idea so much though.

oh and bk on topic i recommended a 3200+ bundle. 1024mb ram, pci-e mobo and GeFroce 7300GS 256mb gfx card. All under £240.

The case, psu, hdds, monitor, keyboard and mouse are all being salvaged from older systems as there's nothing wrong with them.

 

[Perebble]

change to the other forum theme n maybe u'll see that uve got a few px white outline round the feather than needs trimming and blurring. im flattered u liked my idea so much though.

oh and bk on topic i recommended a 3200+ bundle. 1024mb ram, pci-e mobo and GeFroce 7300GS 256mb gfx card. All under £240.

The case, psu, hdds, monitor, keyboard and mouse are all being salvaged from older systems as there's nothing wrong with them.

urban will probably tell you to wait until Conroe is released anyway.

Plus I'd change the graphics card but that's me .

 

[JealY]

change to the other forum theme n maybe u'll see that uve got a few px white outline round the feather than needs trimming and blurring

Nah, I saved the gif's Matte like that, so it looks cleaner on the blue skin.

Thats without the matte (Its jagged because it's a very clean cut)

Thats with

/J34lY

 

[Bacardi]

well yeah ideally id tell her to wait but fact is she needs a machine now. the gfx card was a tricky choice. still not 100% about it but it'll do imho.

 

[Dano]

cba 2 reed all but u cn get kingston ddr ram 4 £15 for 512 meg...
definatly a amd !!!!! ye i suggest 2400+ or i u wanna go cheaper 3200+
h/d um 200 gb i cn get theise frm alot of suplyers all ranging from 150-170 quid mine is 165 quid 160 gig lol thats just main things hope it helps

 

[Chriz]

cba 2 reed all but u cn get kingston ddr ram 4 £15 for 512 meg...
definatly a amd !!!!! ye i suggest 2400+ or i u wanna go cheaper 3200+
h/d um 200 gb i cn get theise frm alot of suplyers all ranging from 150-170 quid mine is 165 quid 160 gig lol thats just main things hope it helps

you can get a 250gb hard drive for under £50 :S

 

[Bacardi]

for under £150 i can get a 500GB fancy external drive lol. the hdd isnt needed cos she has a couple that are in perfect working order from her other system.

 

[Dano]

im on bout internal 7500 rpm lol hehe... and i ment 3400 not 2400 chip.

 

[Perebble]

im on bout internal 7500 rpm lol hehe... and i ment 3400 not 2400 chip.

Just shut up, you dunno what you're on about.

7200* RPM is what most people buy.

10000 RPM is the faster HDD.



£165 for a 160GB HDD is a rip off.

 

[Dano]

wtf i no more bout building pc's than u tbh end of..#

and i ment what i sed 7500