Cast your eye on this pc spec

[lanciachris]

Regrettably i am no longer clued up on current technology - could someone advice if any of these components are about to disappear off the face of the earth, never to be seen or heard of, or supported again?

graphics : ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out
mboard : Asus A7N8X-X Lan Nforce2
cpu : AMD Athlon XP 3000+
hdd : Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM

[Jinx]

lanciachris said:

graphics : ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out mboard : Asus A7N8X-X Lan Nforce2 cpu : AMD Athlon XP 3000+ hdd : Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM

The graphics card looks a little old but Doom 3 still supports it (I think they're up to 9800 now) - I would guess the whole system is about 2 years old?

[silverfox]

Yeah about 2 years old

I suspect support for those components will slow down if not halt but it won't stop them working.

[lanciachris]

It will be a new system but I cant afford an uber spec. Basically my key requirement is : can run world of warcraft properly! half life 2 would be nice too...

Oh, and less than £500.

The other option im looking at is one of the dell offers, but they come with monitors

[silverfox]

£500 for a cpu, motherboard, hdd and video card?

If you just want a cpu/motherborad/hdd and video card then you could have these current pieces of kit for under your budget - just shy of £400 delivered.

I'm sure others will post similar.

Motherboard: Abit AN8 NForce4, ATX, DDDR400, PCI-E, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 5.1ch Audio, 4 x SATA, Raid
£72.00 £84.60
Video card: 128MB Gigabyte GV NX66T128VP - GF6600GT (NV43 Ultra,1000/500Mhz,128MB DVI,TV Out-SLI,VIVO,PCI-E x16 £109.00 £128.08
CPU and Fan: AMD Athlon 64 3000 32/64Bit CPU S939 "Venice" 90nm Retail inc Heat Sink Fan & 3 Years Warranty £95.30 £111.98
HDD: 160Gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 10 (7200rpm,8MB) "Sabre" SATA NCQ - Lead Free
£48.85 £57.40

[lanciachris]

Sorry, to clarify its a little over 400 for the base unit with the key components ive specced mentioned - only other thing in there is a dvd-rom/cdrw.

[Plotloss]

I'd expect that spec to be offered at £299 or thereabouts.

[anonymous-user]

I've just gone through a similar experience in deciding on components and they're being delivered today.

The only comment I'd make about the components you've listed is that the general consensus on here when I searched appeared to be that Western Digital HDDs were the manufacturer of choice.

[Plotloss]

WD the manu of choice?

I'd place them in the same bin as Maxtor stuff personally.

[lanciachris]

Plotloss said:

I'd expect that spec to be offered at £299 or thereabouts.

Could you point me at any alternatives?

[Plotloss]

www.pcindex.co.uk

Price up the bits.

Where abouts are you?

If you get the bits and cant build it (I am sure you can) I'll sling it together for ya...

[lanciachris]

Right, after some running about on that -
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 512Kb Inc Fan £128.38
Asustek Socket 939 K8T800PR ATX Audio LAN RAID £70.29
512MB DDR400 PC3200 RAM (elixir brand) £28.18
PowerColor Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR AGP8X,ATI 9800PRO, DVI-I, TV-Out, Retail £117.98
Deskstar 180GXP 180.0 Gb [IC35L180AVV207-1 / 07N9216]
UDMA100, 7200rpm, 8.5ms, 8mb, 699 Mbits/s 0.39 £/Gb

£70.49

Samsung Combi 52x32x52 + 16x DVD IDE OEM (inc.software) £26.96
Mfr code: SM-352F

Case www.dabs.com/uk/channels/components/caseandcaseaccessories/productView.htm?quicklinx=3LH7
£24.31

psu www.dabs.com/uk/channels/components/caseandcaseaccessories/productView.htm?quicklinx=39nb
£21.67

kb+ mouse rf
www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/keyboardsmicejoystickswheelsandtablets/productView.htm?quicklinx=2V6V
£27.02

[Plotloss]

A lot more machine for a little less money it seems...

[lanciachris]

£515 in total.
Scratch the powercolor 9800pro and replace with sapphire one at same money too.

Edit - Gah. I forgot to say thank you! how rude...

So thank you

>> Edited by lanciachris on Thursday 19th May 14:35

[Pigeon]

Plotloss said:

WD the manu of choice? I'd place them in the same bin as Maxtor stuff personally.

They seem to polarise opinions rather more than other makes... personally I've never had any trouble with them apart from some really really ancient ones that had probably been through some untoward conditions before I got hold of them. Sometimes they play silly buggers about sharing an IDE cable with a non-WD drive, but they don't tend to lose data.

Agree about Maxtor though...