Buying a PC for gaming, what do you think of this one?

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nickkrym

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Im buying a PC so I can actually play normal games. I doint have all that much to spend, so I found a nice second hand one (still have 2 years guaranty so thats not a problem). The price is 950 euro, which is approx $1200, the following are the specs:

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ (3200 MHZ, Front side bus = 800 MHZ)
Motherboard: Asus Pro-Active P5GDI Pro. (Front side bus = 800MHZ or 533 MHZ, contains 1 PCI-Express slot, 3 PCI X1 slots and 3 normal PCI slots)
Memory: Nanya 2048 MB (4 x 512 MB, 2 dual channels)
Video card: XFX Nvidia geforce 6600GT 256 MB
Power supply: Paradigit 400 Watt.
DVD Speler: LG 16 X, 48 X, IDE, OEM, Black
DVD rewriter: LG -R(W) & +R(W) & +R9 16 x IDE Black
Hard drive: 160 GB 7200 RPM
Casing + cooling: Coolermaster Stacker (see link for specifications: http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/i...1&other_title= +STC-T01+CM%20Stacker)

Contains 2 120 x 120 x 25 Fans and a 80 x 80 x 25 fan for strong ventilation.
USB Slots : 8.
Extra software software:
Paradigit Windows XP Home Edition
Panda Titanium Antivirus 2005
Microsoft works 8
XFX drivers
Neor OEM suite
ASUS Moederbord drivers
Cyberlink POWER DVD
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My only concerns are the processor, video card (will it be enough for games such as Battlefield 2, Doom 3, all the new ones, etc.) and if the mother board supports extra memory. The guy throws in alot of games so thats good. Should I go for it??

Thanks,
Nick
 
the psu seems a little weak the vid card will play doom 3 and modern games but will proberbly need upgrading within a year the hdd is a bit small for a gaming machine but will do and a bigger one can be installed cheap enough at a later date the cpu will run all modern games and there is plenty of memory i live in england and for the price it seems reasonable and it will do fine for know
 
Get a Core 2 Duo E6300 processor
Get a 7800 GT/7900GT
And a little better power supply, and you will have a ood gaming machine.
 
How much would a core 2 due cost? And is it east to replace a processor? I might bargain the price down abit and get a new processor, and video card
 
Hi guys,
for the same price I found the following deal. It does not have a guaranty but its much better, what do you think (940 euro):
Videocard Saphire x1900xtx

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo e6700 ( 2x 2,66Ghz )

Memory Corsair (2 GB)

Hard drive 320 GB Maxtor Sata 2

Motherboard Asus P5WDG2-WS

Power supply 600 Watt OEM

Casing NZXT trinity Neon + TEMP meter

DVD drive NEC - dvd+/- ram drive

Cardreader concept tronic 16 in 1

OS Windows XP pro + licence on the box

Office Licence seperate
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What do you guys think of this?
 
nickkrym said:
Hi guys,
for the same price I found the following deal. It does not have a guaranty but its much better, what do you think (940 euro):


What do you guys think of this?
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Thats much better then the one in your first post.
 
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