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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: Rob on July 05, 2006, 14:13:26 PM

Title: Critique this Spec
Post by: Rob on July 05, 2006, 14:13:26 PM
DFI NF4 Infinity PCI-E (Socket 939) Motherboard     
Club 3D nVidia GeForce 7300GT 256MB DDR2 DVI/TV Out (PCI-E) - Retail    
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATAII NCQ 3Gb/s 250GB 8MB Cache OEM    
Antec NSK4400 Black/Silver Mini Tower Case - 380W PSU    
3.5 inch Floppy Drive - Black    
Sony 16X DVD-ROM Black - OEM    
Logitech Cordless Internet Pro Desktop Black - OEM
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (939 Pin) - Retail with Fan
Corsair TwinX 1GB DDR (2x512MB) XMS3200C2PT

Total cost Ã,£ 423.39

To be used for MS Office, web browsing, emails and light gaming. Are there any problems with this spec?
Title: Critique this Spec
Post by: Binary Shadow on July 05, 2006, 15:08:15 PM
why not a dual core faster CPU?
Title: Critique this Spec
Post by: Tongy on July 05, 2006, 15:20:01 PM
Aye, X2 would mke it better, but not bad as specs go.

Cheers
Tongy
Title: Critique this Spec
Post by: redneck on July 05, 2006, 15:39:18 PM
good price for teh lot actually. i was surprised :)
Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Rob on July 05, 2006, 16:12:55 PM
Cheers for the replies. X2 would be nice I agree but the cheapest are about Ã,£190 whereas that 3500+ is Ã,£80 :)
Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Mark on July 05, 2006, 16:14:03 PM
pentium 4 D805 with decent motherboard tbpfh

Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Rob on July 05, 2006, 16:23:17 PM
Is there something wrong with that motherboard?
Title: Critique this Spec
Post by: Tongy on July 05, 2006, 16:31:42 PM
Aye, but since he was on about AMD you cannot change camps (unlike me).

Dont forget your copy of Windows XP Home (OEM) of course ;)

Cheers
Tongy
Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Mark on July 05, 2006, 17:34:55 PM
Quote from: RobIs there something wrong with that motherboard?

No, I was just suggesting a swap to a pentium D rather than the A64, as youll squeeze a LOT more out of it on a decent motherboard (And good cooler)
Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Rob on July 05, 2006, 17:43:43 PM
Bearing in mind I cant be arsed with overclocking, would you still recommend that?
Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Serious on July 05, 2006, 18:40:15 PM
Quote from: RobCheers for the replies. X2 would be nice I agree but the cheapest are about Ã,£190 whereas that 3500+ is Ã,£80 :)

Nothing you are doing would require that sort of power, TBH if anything its overspecified anyway, my old 1.3ghz can still do most of it and my 2500+ certainly meets the needs ;)

That said get 2x1gb sticks of ram to fully future proof it, just in case you want to do something heavier ;)

TBH Im not bothering to upgrade this year, will wait till next and then get a new system unit with the latest windaz
Title: Re:Critique this Spec
Post by: Badabing on July 06, 2006, 00:06:39 AM
Quote from: Serious
Quote from: RobCheers for the replies. X2 would be nice I agree but the cheapest are about Ã,£190 whereas that 3500+ is Ã,£80 :)

Nothing you are doing would require that sort of power, TBH if anything its overspecified anyway, my old 1.3ghz can still do most of it and my 2500+ certainly meets the needs ;)

good advice there, what youve got is more than adequate and as red says, its a good price i think...
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