Re: Cost of new Technology

Well i currently have a 160gb HD in old PC which can be taken out so take
away the cost of that - i have 1.5 gig of PC2700 DDR SDram which although
old could be used on motherboard.

Only at investigating stage at the moment and will delve further into the
processor you have mentioned.

Coop

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Over the next year i have vowed to get a new system (currently running a
Barton 2500+ 1.5 gig ram Radeon 9600XT, pretty cheap Nforce2 Mobo).

Not got much of a budget to play with (£350 tops ) and was wondering if i
would be able to build a pc which embraces the PCI-e technology and able
to run the latest games at a playable rate.

Would it make more sense however to buy this and then upgrade the
Graphics Card.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/116052/rb/23988937638

Cheers for any advice

Coop


Suggest you investigate further.

If there is any way you can stretch or rearrange your budget to include
the Intel core 2 duo E6600 cpu then do so.
(obviously and appropriate motherboard is also needed)

Currently the Intel core 2 duo range provide much better "bang for bucks"
than AMD offerings.
The CPU model mentioned, the E6600 is considered by many to be the best
for value within the range.
It is the lowest speed model that has the 4Mb built in cache.

HTH





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