Thinking of buying a new machine, opinion please!

[Rhodes]

Thinking of buying a new machine, mine it's 6 years old! My line of thought is this:

ASUS P45 Sk775 DDR3 P5Q3 - motherboard
Intel Pentium DE6300 2.80 MHz 2 mb FBS 1066 - CPU
Kingston Value Ram 4 Gb (2+2) DDR3 - memory
Samsung 500 Gb Sata 2 5.400 rpm 16mb Ecogreen - Main Disk
ASUS GF9600 GT 512 mb DDR3 - graphic card
Thermaltake Mini Thypoon Univcooler - cpu cooler

drives are from the current PC.

What do you think?

[AVGWarhawk]

Go bigger on your vid card for sure. Make sure your old hard drives are up to snuff. In other words are the SATA (fast) or IED (not so fast) for the hook up? Does this board accept the older IED if your hard drives are IED? Personally I would go for a new hard drive if your current ones are IED and or six years old.

[mookiemookie]

I would definately go bigger on the graphics card also. At least a gig of memory on it.

[Rhodes]

But bigger card means more money and I want to have something decent and not very expensive(even if it's hard to due it)! My hard drive is sata(one of the firsts, possibly), my drives (dvd-rom recorder etc, IDE)! The boards have at least one IDE slot, so I can use my drive(s).
The current hard disk would be my secondary hard disk (physical backup so to speak)!
The graphic card is the best to play games, bellow 100% acording to Toms hardware.

[Distortion]

I just bought a ATI HD 4850 1GB, for 120 euro`s. Its a fast card, and not that expensive. Look here for some benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/benchmarks,62.html This card is way faster than a 9600 GT and also cheaper.

good luck!

[Rhodes]

I just bought a ATI HD 4850 1GB, for 120 euro`s. Its a fast card, and not that expensive. Look here for some benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/benchmarks,62.html This card is way faster than a 9600 GT and also cheaper.

good luck!

The 9600 gt price that I have is 83.42€!

But even worse is that the Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT is way faster the the 9600 gt 512mb.:hmmm:

[Distortion]

The 9600 gt price that I have is 83.42€!

But even worse is that the Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT is way faster the the 9600 gt 512mb.:hmmm:

U are right about the price. But the cheapest 512 mb 4850 is also about 90 euro. And yes, the 8800GT is/was a great card, and is faster than a 9600gt. My 8800GT crashed last week, and I bought the ATI 4850 1GB and this card is faster then the 8800GT, and I compared several new games.

[Rhodes]

Yes, or I go to a 9600gt with 1 Gb, i'ts circa 9€ more expensive (93 euros)!

[FIREWALL]

@ Rhodes Buy what you can afford with the ability to upgrade. :salute:


edit: Spend most on MoBo. It's the key piece.

[Shearwater]

I'm about to buy a new computer (notebook, that is) myself. As regards to graphics cards, you might want to check this site out - it's pretty neat:

http://www.notebookcheck.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9283.0.html

I'm afraid it's in German, but the 3D Marks should give you an impression of what your next graphics card is capable of.

BTW: The FSB seemed a little low to me - but I'm not much of an expert TBH.

EDIT: Just found out that you can switch the language to Portuguese. Be sure to check it out :DL!

[Rhodes]

I'm about to buy a new computer (notebook, that is) myself. As regards to graphics cards, you might want to check this site out - it's pretty neat:

http://www.notebookcheck.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9283.0.html

I'm afraid it's in German, but the 3D Marks should give you an impression of what your next graphics card is capable of.

BTW: The FSB seemed a little low to me - but I'm not much of an expert TBH.

EDIT: Just found out that you can switch the language to Portuguese. Be sure to check it out :DL!

Watching right now!:yeah: