New Pc - Saxperience

jeeves_101 · 23rd December 2007, 17:39

Well, i've been looking at buying a pc for abit now and i finally bought one today, not the worlds best, but it'll do the job i think.

this is a brief spec of it -

pentium intel core dou 2.20 Ghz 2Mb cache processor
3072 Mb (3.0 Ghz) DDR2 RAM
500 Gb Hard Drive

19 in 1 card reader

loads of usb 2.0 ports

blah blah and other bits and pieces

i picked it with xp and not vista, oh and it comes with a 22" wide flat panel LCD monitor which is great.

What do the "into" computers think of it? as i'm not really into pc's, i just wanted one, oh and it only cost me £450.

TU-Tuning · 23rd December 2007, 17:43

As long as it plays pong and lemmings and its got the internet, your onto a winner

Karl · 23rd December 2007, 17:44

What graphics card does it have,

your ram in brackets says 3GHz, i think you mean 3GB.

What MHz is your RAM? 667MHz?

Viper · 23rd December 2007, 17:52

im sick of people paying nothing for a good PC when i spent a cunt load on mine.

just makes me feel that it wasnt justified

someone cheer me up!

nice spec jeevesey! and same questions that craig asked... GFX card and ram speed...

DarylVTR · 23rd December 2007, 17:53

about average price i guess. What graphics card does it have?

jeeves_101 · 23rd December 2007, 17:55

its 667 Mhz Ram and yeah i ment 3.0 Gb

i dont think the graphics card is anything too special, tho i'm not really going to use it for gaming, so not too worried.

abit more info -

2.20 Ghz, 800 Mhz, 2 Mb cache core duo processor
3072 Mb 667 Mhz Ram
intergrated intel Graphic media Accelerator X3100 graphics thingy ma bob

whats a good graphics card to have?!?! i may get one off ebay?!?!

Brooksy · 23rd December 2007, 18:21

x1950xtx, - £90ish or more top dx9's 8800GT, better than GTX's poss gts IMO
or the x3870 - £140+

cards priced between £30 -£60 all do the same thing roughly, with minor stuff and added bits.. look for personal uses..
i.e some MAY come with HD support HDMI, some may have more pipelines, high resoloution..

depends, if for movies and film go for HD etc or for games wise best to go higher in price or look for more techy stuff. but go for 90ish mark! then year or so... DX10 will be out with quality gcards for XP when they come up with a DX10 software support for XP as its only for Vista atm!

jeeves_101 · 23rd December 2007, 18:27

anything else thats not that expensive? as said, not really after a tip top, top of the shop card, just something better than what i said my pc comes with.

Brooksy · 23rd December 2007, 18:33

my everyday machine has the x300se - which is shite! £20 worth if that now which is used for surfing etc and few films, does it fine. tbh mate..
gow tih your setup make sure the whole system runs fine for a few weeks first before u go upgrading stuff.
Do you really need a better gcard?!
your card is prob in range of 40-50 quid? stick with that! unless u wanna play games that pop u in the eye when playing! or watch quality HD smoothing films/videos... then upgrade.. otherwise money wasted!

Karl · 24th December 2007, 01:05

8600 GT is a cheap half decent card.

Dom_sufc · 24th December 2007, 02:06

Well i read around and as far as intergrated graphics go, the X3100 aint that bad.

It should suffice for the 22" screen, as long as you dont try and play games. Because then be prepared to live on low res & low settings.

As for the rest, it sounds good mate. Did you get any DVD/CD ROM/writers with it? Or just the bits you listed?

Personally Id get something cheap and simple like an 8600 gt.

Scattle · 24th December 2007, 08:00

www.pcspecialists.co.uk is good and you can choose your own spec.

Hanuman · 24th December 2007, 09:17

i got my own made to spec on some mint pc site, to expensive in high street shops as package need to make sure you dont get an old model processor really, the speed they get outdated in models the last thing you want is a slow processor

jeeves_101 · 24th December 2007, 17:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dom_sufc

Well i read around and as far as intergrated graphics go, the X3100 aint that bad.

It should suffice for the 22" screen, as long as you dont try and play games. Because then be prepared to live on low res & low settings.

As for the rest, it sounds good mate. Did you get any DVD/CD ROM/writers with it? Or just the bits you listed?

Personally Id get something cheap and simple like an 8600 gt.

yeah, got a 16x speed dvd rewriter with it, and loads of other bits too.