Shoutbox

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Originally posted by -dt-
also dont get a widescreen for your main screen... some games dont support them or just look weird

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If you have a decent graphics card you can configure it so that it keeps the proper dimensions in fullscreen applications (just worked that one out the other day when I looked through the preferences for the 100th time).  At least if you get this computer you shouldn't need to upgrade for a number of years, it might cost a lot but it saves having to think about upgrading or buying a new computer later.  Though as Underlord said, try looking at getting two of smaller things like graphics cards, memmory cards, hard drives, etc as this will save money.  Some other peices of hardware you might look into as it seems you are very rich are a HDTV tuner, wireless card, bluetooth (saves having something sticking outside your computer) and better peripherals (mouse, keyboard will be what you look at mainly as you use them the most).  Also you might want to look into having dual screens if you can afford it.  I hope I have given you some ideas.

i have a logitech G15 keyboard, a razer krait mouse, an icemat, JBL speakers and some sennheiser SK 160 headset so i think im sorted with that but thank u very much for clearing my worry about the screen size ect

i need more positive/negative input please

One thing i noticed was the choice of the 3gb of kingston value ram, at 533 mhz. I would suggest going with 2 gb of quality ram at 800mhz, probably for the same amount of cash. The speed of the ram for gaming is often more important than the quantity, and buying quality ram will usually give stricter timings for better gaming. I wouldn't go with value ram unless your building a simple workstation.

As well, i would definatly go with a secondary DVD/CD ROM drive, you'll love it if you ever duplicate a cd.

I have a 3.0ghz intel P4 and 1gb of ram and its fine for running games (well would be if i had a decent gpu) But its so much fatser as it is DDR2 Ram. So it'd be better of going for less ram but DDR2
Sounds like a good pc there though.

thank you, more comments please!

I think your going abit over the top there, i got a new pc aand the specs are good and it only cost arround £700 :

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
2 x 1 gb ram
Intel P4 dual core 2 x 3GHZ
Samsung 250GB hdd
500W psu
17' Samsung tft monitor
XP media center
some other stuff from old pc

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2 1GB sticks and just think if one of them gets an error you'll be fucked again to replace them 1gb sticks cost soooo much

It all depends on what kind of ram what model what make etc....
Prices for ram can very to as little as £10. but for higher memory they go to sky high prices like £400!
For a 1gb stick of DDR2 Ram it'd cost as little as £67 but the higher prices at £129.
So all ram sticks vary in price.

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Originally posted by aNILEator
2 1GB sticks and just think if one of them gets an error you'll be fucked again to replace them 1gb sticks cost soooo much

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If you get them in a bundle, its often cheaper than 4x 512, and if your buying quality you usually get some sort of warrentee.

WOW! Would definately get that without a doubt, that's heavy man! then again, when would I be able to buy something like that?