PC Gaming

epz_2

looks like you need a new cpu wich means new mobo and ram and likely a new psu as older ones cant handle the power draw of newer chips.


all that on top of a new graphics card means its new pc time, the only thing worth keeping is the hard drive as a backup device.

buying a prebuilt one will be cheaper probably but you need to know what to get.

if i were putting together a gaming rig i would want 2 gigs ram, windows xp(NOT vista), a 500gig hard disk, core2duo or amd x2 sli capable mobo and a nvidia 8800 gt.

the grapics card makes the most difference to performance anyway, the advantage of sli is you can whack a second card when cheaper and near double the performance with not much effort.

Poppycat

Get a barebones system from Novatech they supply the motherboard, case, psu, ram, cpu/fan pre built, all you need to do is add graphics card and dvdrom drive, monitor or hard driver (sata 2 depending on motherboard) and psu lead to mains and sata lead for hard drive to motherboard

superscaper

armasravi wrote: »

I have the perfect link for you
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

It matches your hardware with the game of your choice.
Ofcourse they only list minimum req's, but it should be able to show you where you are lacking power

http://www.yougamers.com/ is a bit more indepth by having min. and recommended specs and the site give their own realistic min and recommended if the game publisher's printed specs are insufficient.

sidthesexist

PSU
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4QZK&CategorySelectedId=11259&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11259,48870000,4294963789

Case
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4QSL&CategorySelectedId=11145&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11145,11,40730000,351080000

HardDrive
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4S3D

Memory
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=255300

Motherboard
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=605521

cpu
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4L1C&CategorySelectedId=11147&NavigationKey=11147,4294958803

cpu cooler
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-SB

GFX
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-169-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=416

If you can find someone who knows how to overclock cpu's properly this one will go to over 3 gig easily and without problems and will play just about any modern game well, i believe the total cost of the parts listed comes out at around £450 ish? although there is always a few odd's and ends you will find you need on top, this machine once overclocked should be able to keep up with just about any modern machine except maybe a quadcore one?

Pitchshifter

Go to Dell or Mesh and spend around £700 on a home desktop PC. This will get you a decent PC with decent support that will easily play games like R6 Vegas.
OP sounds like a novice, I suggest we keep it simple and just buy a quality ready made PC from a reliable brand. Dell even has a sale on and on top of that you can get 5% cashback if you go through Quidco.

superscaper

Pitchshifter wrote: »

Go to Dell or Mesh and spend around £700 on a home desktop PC. This will get you a decent PC with decent support that will easily play games like R6 Vegas.
OP sounds like a novice, I suggest we keep it simple and just buy a quality ready made PC from a reliable brand. Dell even has a sale on and on top of that you can get 5% cashback if you go through Quidco.

From personal experience I'd veto Mesh altogether. If the PC works fine then great but if you ever have it go wrong then you don't get any support at all and it's cheaper and quicker to fix it yourself or even get an independant pc repairer to do it for you. When you take that into account I think Dell are probably much better value for money.