PC Hareware

[Tilda]

Well my gfx card has been on the blink for a while, and it turns out that upgrading is only slightly more expensive than trying to find another agp card for my ageing setup.

So I've ordered this, I know its perhaps a bit late, but could anybody tell me if they see any problems with this:

Asus A8V-VM SE Socket 939 VIA KM890 VGA AUDIO mATX
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 512Kb Cache OEM Processor
Speeze COPPERREEF K8 Socket 754 / 940 / 939 Cooling kit
Inno3D GeForce 7600GT 256MB TV Out DVI Core 560MHz Memory 700MHz PCI-E

 

[fettoken]

Well my gfx card has been on the blink for a while, and it turns out that upgrading is only slightly more expensive than trying to find another agp card for my ageing setup.

So I've ordered this, I know its perhaps a bit late, but could anybody tell me if they see any problems with this:

Asus A8V-VM SE Socket 939 VIA KM890 VGA AUDIO mATX
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 512Kb Cache OEM Processor
Speeze COPPERREEF K8 Socket 754 / 940 / 939 Cooling kit
Inno3D GeForce 7600GT 256MB TV Out DVI Core 560MHz Memory 700MHz PCI-E

If you can settle playing games on low settings all the time... new games that is.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Hareware?

 

[Tilda]

Its an upgrade from my current PC fettoken, AMD 2400, radeon 9800

 

[Congax]

Got about the same on one PC here Tilda, can run two daoc accounts and stick them simultaneously with ease. Just make sure that you have 2 GIG of ram.

 

[chretien]

Well you've ordered it already so any advice is a bit redundant now but it looks like a reasonably solid system for a budget. I use a 7600GT and it's a good video card for the money. The only thing I'd say is that the difference in price between the AMD 3000 and a 3200 or 3400 isn't that great, you may as well have dropped the extra few quid for a faster processor. I'd also echo what Congax said. Cram as much ram as it will take in there. I have 1.5GB in mine which is fine for now. 2GB will help a lot though with next gen games.

 

[Saggy]

s939 just to be able to use your old-DDR sticks? Silly plan unless you had 2Gb really :S

That set will do fine if you were looking for a "set that will do fine"

 

[Vladamir]

s939 just to be able to use your old-DDR sticks? Silly plan unless you had 2Gb really :S

That set will do fine if you were looking for a "set that will do fine"

Yeah

 

[Saggy]

Yeah

Thought so

 

[Vladamir]

Thought so

Aye!

 

[Tilda]

s939 just to be able to use your old-DDR sticks? Silly plan unless you had 2Gb really :S

That set will do fine if you were looking for a "set that will do fine"

The aim wasn't to make an uber uber setup, but one that will run better than my current PC< and for cheapness.
I can't afford to spend money on gfx card, mobo, proc, and then another £80 on ram, when I can reuse the gig I have atm, I simply dont have the money.
In 4 years time I'll be earning decent amounts and will be able to afford more, but atm, I can't afford shit. And so this was the cheapest i could come up with, that would still run decently.

 

[Saggy]

Any idea how fast your old sticks are btw? I guess that with XP2400+ we are talking about DDR333? To get everything out of A64 you need DDR400 :S

 

[tris-]

If you can settle playing games on low settings all the time... new games that is.

not sure where you get that idea. my setup is virtually the same except i got a 7800GT and 3700+ A64. everygame ive played i can have on max settings without a problem.

 

[Congax]

not sure where you get that idea. my setup is virtually the same except i got a 7800GT and 3700+ A64. everygame ive played i can have on max settings without a problem.

I can play Tetris in max settings on a lousy PC.

He did say new games (for example; crysis.)

 

[crispy]

i recommend a socket 940 mobo and a x2 cpu and 2gig ddr2 ram along with a radeon x1950 pro

Its sounds like teh costly, but its actually quite cheap components.. like 500£ or so..

 

[Naffets]

i recommend a socket 940 mobo and a x2 cpu and 2gig ddr2 ram along with a radeon x1950 pro

Its sounds like teh costly, but its actually quite cheap components.. like 500£ or so..

Doubt thats an option really.

He's a student (Afaik??) so doesn't have that much to chuck at a pc for games.

Tilda, that setup will run perfectly alright dude, its not too bad tbh.

 

[Tilda]

My budget was 150 so this is just over budget, I could just justify gfx card, proc and mobo because my gfx card has been funny the last month or so.
It wasn't supposed to be a stupidly powerful setup, just something thats better than what I have at the moment, and fairly cheep.

 

[tris-]

I can play Tetris in max settings on a lousy PC.

He did say new games (for example; crysis.)

all new DX9 games i can play on max on my setup.

 

[crispy]

Well that gfx i mentioned is in the same price range as the one you wanna buy tilda, but the radeon is quite powerful

 

[Saggy]

i recommend a socket 940 mobo and a x2 cpu and 2gig ddr2 ram along with a radeon x1950 pro

Its sounds like teh costly, but its actually quite cheap components.. like 500£ or so..

s940 That's probably the worst option one can go for (AM2 if one really wants AMD ).

Pentium 4 630/631 (3Ghz, s775 ~60€), 1Gb of DDR2 (800mhz, ~60€) and cheap s775 motherboard (asrock etc, ~50€) would have been so much better option (easy to upgrade to make it a real beast and stuff - s939 is good as dead really) No idea which gfx-card would serve you best with that budget but 7600GT for ~100€ seems ok (1950pro costs ~160€).

(edit: 150£ = 225€, 60€ + 60€ + 50€ + 100€ = 270€ = 179£)

XP2400+, motherboard and 1Gb of memory is actually awesome upgrade kit for a student with a shitty PC, might be harder to sell without DDR-sticks.