doom 3 has made me do it the 1.4ghz geforce2 machine dont like it too much

have got the following to swap from the old one....

few hard drives (180gb total)
sony dvd burner
tower case
monitor
keyboard
mouse
sblaster 5.1 with bass bin and surround speakers
wireless lan pci card

so i figure i need (inc min spec)

motherboard (christ knows about these things!!)
cpu (2.8ghz athlon)
graphics card (dont want on board shat....256mb nvidia minimum)
heat sink / fan (??)
power supply (500w min)
512mb ram (PC3200 DDR)

any recommendations/advice?

 

higher speed ram, get a pentium chip not a an AMD, unless you go higher than 2.8 as a 2.8 AMD only runs at about a 2.2ghz.

Graphics card i've always rated and brought ATI, i've currently got a Radeon pro 9800 which seems to do the job.

i would also get slightly higher bus speed RAM. (and go for a good brand name)

 

as ryan says, go for a intel chip only a 3ghz or 3.2 or something.

up 2 u but if u wanna pop round here and bring ur old machine, most of it will be usable in the new one.

i can get u a price together if u like, order the stuff here or bring it with ya and we'll spend a few hours putting it together.

oh get a 450-500W psu case as well

 

get a pc built for gameing.......

http://www.meshcomputers.com/updated/elite_4.htm

 

stu, am interested, can you knock a few specs up pls pal and pm a price

all, 64bit cpus, discuss.....

 

yeah also a bit pricey too lol

 

ok matt are u keeping ur existing screen and those harddrives u mentioned earlier as this will knock a chunk off the price

also cdrw drive and sound card, then basically all u will need is motherboard, case with GOOD fan, processor & processor fan and memory. Oh and the graphics card u decide on.

BTTT 4 matt

 

dont get a qtec cheapo power supply cost me

i use a tagan power supply 480w £80

my qtec 550w was a sack of shite under load it went as low as 330w and crashed my machine


get a good motherboard with a decent soundcard built in

unless yoursoundcard is a creative audigy it wont be the danglies for doom 3

sound is as good as the graphics in that game

 

yep

you got it pal

cheers craig