My new machine? (opinions please)

[Gand]

Ok well I'm down to 3 machines. Not sure which to buy. Would like some opinions. They all fall within the £750-£800 mark. Can't afford much more. All come with keyboard etc...

System 1 (Price £790)

AMD Athlon XP 64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard
200GB SATA HDD
512 DDR3200
Nvidia 6800STD 128MB
Nvidia onboard 7.1 Sound
Sony DW-D22A Dual-Layer IDE DVD+/-RW (black)
DVD/CDRW Combo
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers
XP Home + usual software

System 2 (Price £780)

AMD Athlon XP 64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard
160GB SATA HDD
512 DDR3200
Nvidia 6800STD 128MB
Nvidia onboard 7.1 Sound
CD-RW (52x24x52x) / DVD (16x) combo drive
Sony 8x Dual Layer DVD-RW
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers
XP Home + usual software

System 3 (£774.20)

AMD Athlon XP 64 3200+
ASUS K8V Deluxe Athlon 64 Mainboard
512 DDR3200
200GB Serial ATA (150mb/s) HDD
Nvidia 6800LE
17" CRT Monitor (can't be taken out of order)
16x DVD-ROM
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-RW
Onboard 5.1 sound
Creative P5800 5.1 Speakers
XP Home + usual software

That's the lot. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I realise they are all much of a much just wondering which one would be best for future games and best bang for my buck. Thanks again.

 

[Sycho]

System 2 (Price £780)

AMD Athlon XP 64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard
160GB SATA HDD
512 DDR3200
Nvidia 6800STD 128MB
Nvidia onboard 7.1 Sound
CD-RW (52x24x52x) / DVD (16x) combo drive
Sony 8x Dual Layer DVD-RW
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers
XP Home + usual software

I would go with this one but maybe lower the hardrive to 120gb and up the ram to 1gb, 1gb ram really does help your pc a great deal.You got same motherboard there as me, it really is good but can be a pain to start up also athlon 3200 64 should last you a fair while since they are easy to overclock cpus.You might get lucky too and have a geforce 6800 that can go from 12 pipelines modded to 16...but not sure if these are still available, never the less it's still one of the best cards out since it's very good for it's price.

 

[Amiga]

What Sycho says.. Get 1GB memory or

 

[Reignfire]

Here is a System Spec that a company called CTech 2000 can do for you

[BLACK]Sweex [AB007011-BL4] Midi Case 300W PSU 4x5.25 4x3.5
450 W ATX FORMAT PSU AMD/INTEL
Asus K8V-SE DELUXE AMD SKT754
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 64 bit Retail (512kb Cache) [3 yr.war]
# SATA # 160GB MAXTOR SERIAL ATA 7200RPM 8MB CACHE
2 x 512 MB Corsair® VALUE SELECT PC3200 S512MB400C2]
128Mb Chaintech GeForce 6800 AGP8x Graphics Card
[BLACK] Samsung TS-H552B Dual Layer 16x DVD +/-R/RW
[BLACK] 1.44 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE OEM
[BLACK] Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard PS2 [967450-0120] [BLACK] Logitech B58 USB/PS2 Mouse
Creative Inspire P580 5.1 Black Speakers
£764.83

As you can see has 1 GB Memory (Corsair no less) AND 160GB HD

Bought from these before nice and polite staff. Webbie is www.ctech2000.co.uk

 

[Arromiss]

alot of my lag in-game came from HD access so i bought a 10k rpm western digital raptor and can thorougly recommend it

 

[Fana]

You could also downgrade the processor alil - todays games are more limited by ram and gfx card than by your processor. When i built new comp in august i opted to go with a 2.8ghz p4 to save alil money and the difference between that and say a 3.2ghz is negligable when it comes to gaming. Altho im not sure if amd 3.2 is in the lower range already, always used pentiums (they dont burn up if the fan stops spinning etc )

 

[evulboo]

alot of my lag in-game came from HD access so i bought a 10k rpm western digital raptor and can thorougly recommend it

when a new area loads its cached into vidmem and system mem, the only advantage u would get from have a 10k raptor is quicker load times on zoning

i have 2x baracuda sata drives atm running in Raid0 and made no difference to lag but got a huge boost in loading times.

if u notice when u are running around ur hdd light will hardly ever flash but when u zone it goes like mad