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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: your oppinion  Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:07 pm |
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right, long story short, ive to find a new mobo for a mate, they have about 100quid budget,
and its an old system soo i suggested upgrading mobo, proccessor and gfx....here's what ive found.
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(17272)Asus-P5VD2MX-SE-LGA775-P4M890-1066FSB-PCIE.aspx
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(16572)Intel-CPU-Pentium-4-631-30GHz-800FSB-LGA775.aspx
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(16647)ATi-Radeon-X1550-512MB-PCIE-DVI-TV-Out-Oem.aspx
they aint needing anything for serious gaming or that...just a few older games i think, i know the
mobo and processor will do, but what about the gfx??
what do you lot think?
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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:23 pm |
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12 views and no replys??
cmon guys...all i need to know is if that gfx card is any good for its price...
and will the 3 things work together??
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Goldie
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:18 pm |
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20 views and not reply
i feel bit sorry for u lur
so let me tell u
i dont have any idea but if i knew it i will tell u  _________________ 
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Krusk
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:49 pm |
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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:51 pm |
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Krusk wrote: i wouldn't wouldn't what??
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:51 pm |
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i would get the 925
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(15140)Intel-CPU-Pentium-4-D-925-Dual-core-2x30GHz.aspx
Very good CPU, i know its £10 more that you budget, but the performance is so much better
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:00 pm |
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tell 'em to barter their money and get a mobo (Gigabyte or ASUS) that is arround £80 and get a C2D with a GFX Card and the £60 Corsair 2GB RAM PC6400 sticks. 
Bout £350-400?
to be honest... you'll probs need a new power supply to, so make sure you've checked the old one is good enough. _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:27 pm |
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ONE wrote: i would get the 925 http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(15140)Intel-CPU-Pentium-4-D-925-Dual-core-2x30GHz.aspx Very good CPU, i know its £10 more that you budget, but the performance is so much better Go for this 100% ^
Everything else looks all right, considering the budget and such. _________________ 
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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:23 pm |
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turns out they don't need anything...the motherboard is fine, it just wasn't
detecting the HDD for some reason...they fixed it though, but they'll probably
get this stuff next month or something, soo all their hardware is fine....only
thing possibly needed ontop of this stuff is PSU as simon said...but they
dont need any ram or anything. only reason for graphics card is they dont have
one...they have onboard graphics atm. and their processor is an old pentium
3....which imo deffinately could do with an upgrade to a pentium 4 at least.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:36 pm |
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I'd get this card instead - a few quid extra (literally).
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(17637)ATi-Radeon-X1650-512MB-PCIE-DVI-TV-Out-Oem.aspx
The x1550 is just the x1300 rebranded apparently, may be worth the extra few nicker to get a slightly better card.
Or rise to 70 quid for an x1950 pro.
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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:42 pm |
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Chips wrote: I'd get this card instead - a few quid extra (literally). http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(17637)ATi-Radeon-X1650-512MB-PCIE-DVI-TV-Out-Oem.aspx i was looking at that one actually...is it significantly better aye?
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