I've decided to get a brand new PC, mine's finally annoying me so much i'm gonna upgrade etc completely.

So i'm gonna start looking round. i sorta understand graphics cards, but i'm lost on motherboards so i may need help when i get that far xD.

ok this!

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/rang ... ming&r=EXE

I think, it seems ok, i'm assuming the NVIDIA 9800GT is Better than my current 7950GTX o.0

The processor must be better as its quad, mines only duo, and its 2.4 mine 2.2.

Oh and btw i'm going for the 700 pound one. The 1TB and 9800GT card what do people think?

i think you could build it for cheaper

That's quite a good price, actually, though I'm guessing the motherboard is pap and that case sucks IMO. Also, the 9800GT isn't particulary good. The HD4850/70s are a much better bet.

Building one isn't that hard, and you get to chose exactly what you want. If you set a budget, we could spec one up.

well with a mcdonalds job and only cause i got 230 pounds of unspent holiday pay come in last week, another three hundred tomorrow.

I'll have about £950
-50 for rent
-200 for driving lessons/test
=700
-130 for mobile
= 570

but i don't need the mobile/i can ask my nan for moeny which i'll pay her back in a fortnight.

so say about 700 pounds maybe?


Also this: http://www.europc.co.uk/pages/ProductPa ... PID=120289
My dad found this said i coudl try calling asking if they would change the 8800 to a better one, even though 8800 is decent as is.

I would suggest building your own. At £570 you're looking at dual core/4850, and £700 is quad core/4870 territory.

well i'm terrible at building PC's

My current one must've cost about 500 pounds, for this 7950 GTX, 2.2 dual core with 350GB HDD and i think 2GB RAM, this was a year or maybe two ago though.

Oh with no fan cooling, or any cooling so my PC averaged 70 degrees Celsius on idle, that is till the internal thermastat went loopy.

you had a pc....with no cooling? thats insane, surely!?

A machine of that spec with no fans is insane. I modded my case just so I could have 3 big fans

WELL minimal, it had a fan on the side.

Then half a year later found a spare fan in the roof so i put that on the back. It still runs recent games in top spec's with no cooling > : D

erm, but thats like going scuba diving with no oxygen tank or snorkel....

And in that metiphorical example i'm still diving to the deeps and getting brilliant pictures of fish with either ^_^

Then dying a horrible painful death, lol.

well i guess my insane regular computer crashes these days could be explained as passing otu and being washed ashore, only to go in again learned nothing.

Anyhow i foudn the HD 4870 for £171 i think with VAT probably not. I'm gonna look at cases now.

£170 is the current INC VAT going price of the HD4870, mine cost £175 from eBuyer.

Intel Core 4 Quad Q9400 Processor - NEW GENERATION

I fail to understand this, how much Ghz is that?

The Q9400 has 4 cores clocked at 2.66GHz each. This info should be on the product page.

I have the Q6600, it's based on the older 65nm process (rather than the 45nm process), which means it runs slightly hotter, but it's dirt cheap and overclocks like nothing else.

2.66 *EDIT* but i dont know if that means 4 * 2.66 or the 4 of them giving 2.66 total xD

Its 4 of them each at 2.66 but not 4*2.66 unless you have the most multithreaded process ever.

dxdiag = win

Anything that says that a quad core processor has the total GHz as a sum of the individual cores is not to be trusted for the purposes of buying computer parts from.

http://www.cube247.co.uk/?customise=43

i know you said to buy parts seperatly but that sounds ok for all the stuff and price tag

Other wise i'm looking at cases still

As it comes with a monitor and speakers, that's a pretty good price.

it comes with everything, but spec wise from what you lot have sorta said it's ideal o.0

I can get that much, so should i get it or is there anything that is wrong with it?

Well, do you actually need a screen, speakers, kb/mouse?