Gaming PC How much?

globalds

As an earlier poster stated top end P.C sytems tend to drop quick and by a large ammount.
If I was looking to get the most for my money I would buy from someone else. or buy something that is just behind the cutting edge.
I have just had a look on ebay and there seem to be quite a few around .It is also worth considering the fact that most people who build these monster rigs care for them very well .Making sure the processors,Hard drives etc , are running cool,even down to the best cooling compound ,
So what I would say is aim for this type of machine http://http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DELL-XPS-710-H2C-GAMING-PC-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ300114250193QQihZ020QQcategoryZ179QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem and then try and find it for £1500

neilwoods

Dont ever buy a top end rig from ebay.

The dell XPS looks good, but that is a gaming rig, dont go for dual graphics cards, not for 3ds max

wakandem

From your post it seems you are not after the cheapest pc so get a decent Dell.like
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/desktops_better?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

Much better than the real cheap pc's, & should be able to cope with most apps. Good 2 gig memeory deal at mo and make sure the graphics are at least 250mb. Can't go wrong

Blacksheep1979

I'm sorry, but saying get a graphics card with at least 250mb is completely missleading. You can get £35 cards with 256mb on them but they would be far from suitable for games or intensive 3d graphics.

superscaper

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

I'm sorry, but saying get a graphics card with at least 250mb is completely missleading. You can get £35 cards with 256mb on them but they would be far from suitable for games or intensive 3d graphics.

Have to agree, my current graphics card has 256 MiB RAM and it is only Geforce FX5700. Pretty poor for modern games.

Little_John

The Problem is that 3d SM will use as much power as you can give it, the quad core processor would be perfect but a remortgage of the house it required to buy one and for the Graphics again the nvidia geforce and ATI radeon cards are tuned for gameing. For 3d graphics work like with 3d SM you ned to be looking at the Quadro or the FireGL cards. for those buying autocad systems we would use matrox cards they in their time were very good, I stll have a G450 card in one of my machines no good for games but 2d work is fantastic.

banger9365

you can always go for a PNY Quadro FX560 cheaper than a high end card just and made for them prgrams.i would say make the pc your self you will get better than a complet system and it will upgrade later

Mental_Mentor

Thanks to everyone for this. As a second mortgage is not an option (already ave one!) am gonna stick to reasonably priced dell. Good input though

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