Help from the experts?

Fanfan

Hi All

I have decided after a long taught im gona go for a Pc instead of a Laptop but I need yous to help me please if you can. Weres my best bet to buy on dell? What should I look out for when building myself @ dell? And whats an AMD® Athlon™ 64 Processor 3800 like compared to the Intel processors? I will be using this Pc for playing Football Manager and downloading from the internet.

Thanks for your time
Mark

Fanfan

Also if somebody out there knows what makes the Football Manager 07 games fly by unbelievable quick.....is it the speed of your processor or the size of the RAM?

Any help for me you might have for me would be greatly appreciated!

layke

Well games today tend to rely more on CPU usage then RAM.

/edit don't forget the GFX card although i'd image football manager will be low spec.

Tbh a 3.8 is well overkill for such a low spec game.

I can't see you having many problems although 1GB RAM is what i'd recomend as a minimum.

ZygOte

AMD® Athlon™ 64 Processor 3800

this cpu is about 3 years old at this stage! ?

Fanfan

Any1 got any possible ideas of pc that would suit my needs?

Cuddlesworth

Your needs would be?

kaizersoze

krazy_8s wrote:

Your needs would be?

In his first post

Fanfan wrote:

I will be using this Pc for playing Football Manager and downloading from the internet.

This would be more than adequate OP.
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=ie&cs=ieepp1&l=en&oc=D11E07&rbc=D11E07&s=dhs&sbc=iedhsftdhpdesktop1
€825 delivered

RangeR

Fanfan wrote:

Hi All

I have decided after a long taught im gona go for a Pc instead of a Laptop but I need yous to help me please if you can. Weres my best bet to buy on dell? What should I look out for when building myself @ dell? And whats an AMD® Athlon™ 64 Processor 3800 like compared to the Intel processors? I will be using this Pc for playing Football Manager and downloading from the internet.

Thanks for your time
Mark

Why DELL? Both Komplett and Elara have good machines.
What is your budget?
What else would you be using your computer for other than Football Manager?
Video manipulation?
Graphic work?
Just word processing / simple browsing and email?
Any other games that you play?

Makaveli

FM likes ram, lots of ram. A decent processor will help too. It all depends on the size of the database you want to have and how many leagues you run.

The pc kaizersoze linked to would work fine.

RangeR

If that is ALL he wants, fair enough

This from Komplett for €754 delivered

Fanfan

Thanks for the help folks. I think im going to go for the Dell pc that kaizersoze posted up. Just a few more questions it’s a build yourself on so when I get to the Select: Modem whats the difference between No Modem and Dell™ v92 Data/Fax Modem (Price is 34 euro for the modem)? Also whats the difference between 16x DVD +/- RW Drive and 16x DVD +/- RW & 16x IDE DVD ROM Drive (price difference is 34 euro)????

Cuddlesworth

Fanfan wrote:

1---: Modem whats the difference between No Modem and Dell™ v92 Data/Fax Modem (Price is 34 euro for the modem)?


2---Also whats the difference between 16x DVD +/- RW Drive and 16x DVD +/- RW & 16x IDE DVD ROM Drive (price difference is 34 euro)????

1-- If you have broadband dont bother getting a overpriced 56k modem.

2--- First is a burner, second is a reader and burner. Reader and burner are handy if you like to copy thing direct from one cd/dvd to the other.