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Reputable firms, but to my way of thinking expensive.
Have a look at www.novatech.co.uk
Have a look at www.novatech.co.uk
Godfrey H said:
Reputable firms, but to my way of thinking expensive.
Have a look at www.novatech.co.uk
Seconded.
Graphics and memory being the key you will want 1Gb of ram.
If you are going for the previous generation of GFX card then the ATI9800pro is hard to beat on value. Extra ram on the XT version might be worth it depending on the price premium you find. Previous gen cards pretty much ATI wins.
The latest gen cards its 50/50 at the moment. Nvidia 6800GT is pretty much on a par with ATI X800pro. Both are very new and more performance may come from either with a new driver release. Those 2 cards are one down from the top step so don't have the huge price premium on them (still expensive) and they are easier to get as stock on the 6800Ultra and X800XT is pretty thin.
If you know what you are doing build your own as then you can select the components that *you* want rather than have it turn up and think I'd rather they hadn't put one of those in. If you do buy pre-built stay away from anyone that uses custom motherboards etc incase you want to upgrade it at a later date.
>> Edited by malman on Wednesday 29th September 09:58
If you are going for the previous generation of GFX card then the ATI9800pro is hard to beat on value. Extra ram on the XT version might be worth it depending on the price premium you find. Previous gen cards pretty much ATI wins.
The latest gen cards its 50/50 at the moment. Nvidia 6800GT is pretty much on a par with ATI X800pro. Both are very new and more performance may come from either with a new driver release. Those 2 cards are one down from the top step so don't have the huge price premium on them (still expensive) and they are easier to get as stock on the 6800Ultra and X800XT is pretty thin.
If you know what you are doing build your own as then you can select the components that *you* want rather than have it turn up and think I'd rather they hadn't put one of those in. If you do buy pre-built stay away from anyone that uses custom motherboards etc incase you want to upgrade it at a later date.
>> Edited by malman on Wednesday 29th September 09:58
Plotloss said:
One thing to consider is that these VGA cards now have huge power requirements. I recently, for the first time, over powered an enermax 350w psu and this was mainly due to the VGA card...
Get the largest psu you can, they are only cheap.
Don't buy cheap PSUs you will regret it
. What you got that overpowered a 350 enermax as these are usually good? I’ve got a Super flower – real 520w (complete with 4x fans) – cost me just shy of £60, seems to run my 3200, 1Gb, SATA120Gb, 9800Pro, DVD, 3 x 80mm & 1 x 120mm case fans, hard drive cooler (2 fans), massive fan on the CPU (CoolerMaster Jet) and arctic VGA cooler, just fine. – 12 fans in total – you can never have enough, fans or POWER.
jj (obsessed with LED fans!)
jj (obsessed with LED fans!)
It seems to me that there is so much expertise with regards to building PC systems from scratch that somebody on here should offer a "spec it and I build it service", for a small fee of course! I for one would love to spec and build my own PC but know jack about building PC's (only how to surf for porn and MP3's 
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