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Help! What to buy?

  • 14-06-2006 5:25pm
    #1
    JohnMorrissey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭


    I was thinking of buying a new PC and looking at Komplett.ie
    I plan on using the PC for gaming mainly, so I put together the following:

    NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x,
    BenQ 19" LCD T905 TCO99 Monitor,
    Creative SBS Vivid 80 White
    Norman IC, 1 year license Virus Control
    PC box
    SoftThinks Installation/Recovery
    Asus A8R-MVP, ATI RD480+ULI M1575, ATX,
    Saitek PZ08A Gamers Keyboard Backlit UK
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2GHz Socket
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2
    Trust MI-6500X Laser Mouse,
    Gigabyte GZ-FSCA1-AN Black
    OCZ Technology Powersupply ATX 520W
    AK-855-BL AMD COOLER, 7cm BLUE LED FAN,
    Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2 DDR-DIMM 2048MB
    Creative SB Audigy SE , Bulk
    Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
    PowerColor Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3,
    Sony Floppy Drive, 3,5" 1,44MB Silver


    This costs around €2100. is this a good deal? Would this PC be quite futre-resistant or would it soon be obsolete? I also put together a SLI version, below.

    NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x,
    BenQ 19" LCD T905 TCO99 Monitor,
    NorthQ Powersupply 4100 ATX 520W Silent,
    Norman IC, 1 year license Virus Control
    PC box
    SoftThinks Installation/Recovery
    Saitek PZ08A Gamers Keyboard Backlit UK
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2
    Trust MI-6500X Laser Mouse,
    Gigabyte GZ-FSCA1-AN Silver
    Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, nForce4 SLI, Socket
    AK-855-BL AMD COOLER, 7cm BLUE LED FAN,
    Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2 DDR-DIMM 2048MB
    Creative SB Audigy SE , Bulk
    Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
    POINT OF VIEW GeForce 6800GS 256MB
    POINT OF VIEW GeForce 6800GS 256MB
    Sony Floppy Drive, 3,5" 1,44MB Silver

    Is there much improvement in SLI? Which would be better, the two 6800GS's with 256MB each or the one X1900XT with 512MB? The cost of the two pc's is about the same.

    Also, I don't know much about processers etc, but the 4200 2.2ghz seems quite slow? The Pc I'm on at the moment is P4 2.6ghz, and it is about a year old. Does the Athlon 64 get more performance for less GHZ?

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    the Athlon with 2.2ghz looks slow on paper, but it's not (always check benchmarking before buying a processor)...

    but tbh, with that kind of money, i'd wait until you can get your hands on directx10 graphics cards (not until next year)... by then, dualcore processors will be even cheaper, and you may be able to strech your euro a bit more... but that's just me :)


  • #3
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    If you do go ahead stick with the X1900XT an SLI 6800GS setup is definitely not faster than a single X1900XT glass GPU.

    As for DX10 It's hard to say wait if you want it right now but DX10 GPU's are coming this November time frame (high end GeForce 8 confirmed) it's up to you whether you want to wait it out you could buy a cheaper but capable GPU like a 7600GT but have to live without max settings in every game at high resolutions.

    That said a X1900XT will still be a very capable card regardless in the long run as it will be quite some time before you see DX10 games being the majority.

    Rest of the system picks is decent nothing to comment on.


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