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Are these good specs?

 
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Are these good specs?
biggles2008
post 5 Apr, 2008 - 12:45 PM
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CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ AM2

CPU Cooler: Standard CPU heatsink & fan

Motherboard: Asus M2N-E SLI (nForce 500 Chipset, SLI, 7.1 Audio, Firewire)

Memory: 2.0GB Corsair DDR2 667mhz (1x 2GB)

Hard Drive: 250GB S-ATA2 3.0Gb/s

Optical Drive: 20x DVD±RW DL S-ATA Lightscribe

Graphics card: NVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB

Internet: Wireless 802.11G PCI card

PSU: 580W Hiper Type-M Silent

Case: Coolermaster Cavalier 3

Warranty: 3 Year Bronze Warranty


Reconfigure AMD Gaming GT01A

Product Subtotal: £395.26 in dollars = $788.43


Oh the only downfall i see is that theres no monitor but i can pick one of them up resonably cheap (LCD obv ) smile.gif

I configured it to play some of the top games atm and it can be overclocked i think so smile.gif


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post 5 Apr, 2008 - 01:57 PM
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That would be a decent computer, but w/o a monitor you could build better from New Egg for less. Also, I wouldn't stick with the stock CPU cooler, I would definitely spend some to get a decent cooler.


From New Egg:

  • AMD 64 X2 5600+ 89 Watt
  • ASUS M2N-E SLI AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
  • XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 512MB
  • CORSAIR XMS2 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)


This is only $389 US. So as you can see from New Egg you can build a great gaming machine for far less than most think (Thats were I built my machine)


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post 5 Apr, 2008 - 05:00 PM
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jesus thats very cheap but the problem with me living in the UK is shipping charges and it getting damaged when being shipped etc.

But i will check this new egg out thanks psycho u have been a big help to me this past week smile.gif

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post 5 Apr, 2008 - 05:19 PM
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how about this one then ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16883227043

Only downside i see its vista.

but is very very cheap! $589.99 is £295.78 and everybody would say its great at that price


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its ok, nice CPU and all, but if you want it for gaming, the graphics card is weak. Vista is not a downside. I run Crycis on vista on high and it still gets a good FPS rate thats over 30. Vista just gets a bad name because people buy budget PCs from dell and such that have vista but should not.


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QUOTE(ferrari12508 @ 6 Apr, 2008 - 02:42 AM) *

its ok, nice CPU and all, but if you want it for gaming, the graphics card is weak. Vista is not a downside. I run Crycis on vista on high and it still gets a good FPS rate thats over 30. Vista just gets a bad name because people buy budget PCs from dell and such that have vista but should not.



U think the graphics could play COD4?


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ive never actually played COD4 on the comp and I dont actually know anyone who uses comp for it, so I would have no point of reference when saying yes or no.


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Looks nice, the cpu is better than mine.
I run of 4gb ram. And it even has my graphics card.
Grab a little extra ram if you want.


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