Hey buddy, is it possible to get the following for 400-500 pound? Case with PSU Motherboard CPU ( AMD ) Graphics Card (somewhere around £90 - £120) 512-1GB DDR 3200 Hard Drive ( nothing special.. like 40gb) it needs to run World of Warcraft without any lag. thanks for the help
AMD Athlon-Mobile 2500+ CPU Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo 1GB GeIL Value Dual Channel PC3200 Memory Seagate 40GB 7200rpm 8mb cache Hard Drive ATI Radeon 9700 128MB Graphcs Card Case and PSU: 400Watt PSU (or more) from any of these manufacturers: Enermax Antec OCZ Tagan ThermalTake Case: Cooler Master Centurion 2 or Antec SLK3700 i can highly recommend: www.overclockers.co.uk
All good cept I'd have 1 stick of RAM and use the extra cash to get a 9800PRO - the performance difference is great.
a 9700Pro is merely a cut down 9800Pro it still has 8 Pipelines, just a slower clock rate - not much slower either. Not only that but, if you compare the difference (which is very little) between the performance boost ingames of having the extra clock speed of a 9800Pro compared to a 9700Pro and having or not having Dual Channel DDR Memory, the Dual Channel Memory will give you a much more significant performance boost than the extra clock speed difference between graphics cards. If you want a better card than a 9700Pro you would start looking at the 9800Pro - but for the cost difference you might as well spend another £10-£25 and get a Nvidia 6600GT, which is the best performance for value card out atm. Costs: ATI Radeon 9700Pro 128MB (£90 Including vat) ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MB (£115-£130 including vat) Nvidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB (£120-£170 including vat) and the 6600GT is much better than the 2 ATI's listed, although for World Of Warcraft you don't need anything more than a 9700Pro, and a 9700Pro will easily play CS:Source / Half-Life 2 - DOom 3 e.t.c no problem, although not at top graphics
awesome reply thanks procal and waffle. got a question tho sorry.. the Antec SLK3700 comes with an antec PSU .. but its a 350w . would that be enough for the setup u suggested ?
Yes that PSU is fine for those specs, case wise have alook at thse though: have alook at these cases: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_copy_of_Arctic_Cooling.html (The T1 at the top of page .. would be more than enough as the PSU is very powerful for a 350W (high ampage)) or: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Antec_Cases.html - £82.50 including vat and very good 380W PSU.. (this case is amazing, i've just built 3 computers with it and its SO quiet with Very good cooling). Also, don't forget to buy a HeatSink & Fan (HSF) - As the Athlon Mobiles (called mobiles because they were designed for use in laptops) dont come with a HSF retail Also, they are INCREDIBLY good for overclocking, they come out of the box (stock) at 1.83Ghz i believe, but are more than capable of reaching 2.4-2.7Ghz, although you wouldn't need 2 overclock for WOW. I highly recommend the Only Zalman Socket A cooler thats on overclockers.co.uk's website - very quiet and very good at cooling. I also would personally go for the Antec Sonata
with world of warcraft, I'm pretty sure you'll be good with anything above a 9600, but the 9700 is much better for just about the same price.
