Hello, I know that there are many pc owners that read these forums and are very able at making PCs, sadly I lack in these skills but instead I am going to pay to have one built. The only thing is, is the parts and I want good parts naturally. Secondly, I have the basics like the monitor and casing and cd-rewriter etc (basically an upgrade but a new PC at the same time).right so my specifications are as follows :
Moterboard: Well I don't know anything about these but guess the person making it will adapt it to what I ask for- hope not too expensive though for what I would like.
Processor: I think an Athlon, they seem cheaper to buy and have one currently and have done ok so far the options avaliable to me are: Athlon XP 3200+ or AMD Athlon 64 3200 I am not sure which is better and if so if there is any major performance differences....any suggestions on something that will last a couple of years?
Hard drive: Was thinking of an 80GB Diamondmax one (about £50)
Graphics cards: Now this is one I am not sure about, I read the big debate about RAM and graphics cards in the other forum and don't know a great deal about them. Which would be good for a gamer, I read in a PC Zone that the Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB is good, but is this an ageing card....are the cards of the future 256MBs now?
Sound Card: I know sound is important but to me it isn't vital..any suggestions?
Finally for RAM now, I have 256MB of it, I guess I could add it to my new Pc, but I would like 512MB- 1GB in my new Pc ideally.
Thanks alot, I know it's a hard task, but I think I can only stretch to a budget of around £500- I hope providing everything else like the mouse, keyboard, monitor etc will keep the cost lower.
thanks alot and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Nicholas
Moterboard: Well I don't know anything about these but guess the person making it will adapt it to what I ask for- hope not too expensive though for what I would like.
Processor: I think an Athlon, they seem cheaper to buy and have one currently and have done ok so far the options avaliable to me are: Athlon XP 3200+ or AMD Athlon 64 3200 I am not sure which is better and if so if there is any major performance differences....any suggestions on something that will last a couple of years?
Hard drive: Was thinking of an 80GB Diamondmax one (about £50)
Graphics cards: Now this is one I am not sure about, I read the big debate about RAM and graphics cards in the other forum and don't know a great deal about them. Which would be good for a gamer, I read in a PC Zone that the Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB is good, but is this an ageing card....are the cards of the future 256MBs now?
Sound Card: I know sound is important but to me it isn't vital..any suggestions?
Finally for RAM now, I have 256MB of it, I guess I could add it to my new Pc, but I would like 512MB- 1GB in my new Pc ideally.
Thanks alot, I know it's a hard task, but I think I can only stretch to a budget of around £500- I hope providing everything else like the mouse, keyboard, monitor etc will keep the cost lower.
thanks alot and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Nicholas























