Need advice on new PC

**Furunculus** · 03-22-2009, 19:16

LN19302
4GB Corsair (2x2GB) TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18 £27.64 £31.79

LN23277
512MB Sapphire HD 4870, PCI-E 2.0, 3600MHz GDDR5, GPU 750MHz, 800 Cores, 2x DL DVI-I/ HDTV, HDCP £124.89 £143.62

LN25874
640Gb Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B, 3.5", SATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, HDD £41.64 £47.89

LN26372
Samsung TS-H653F 22x DVD±R, 12x DVD±R, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, SATA, Black, OEM £13.49 £15.51

LN26422
AMD Phenom II X3 710, Sok AM3, 2.6GHz, 6MB Total Cache, 95W, Retail £90.58 £104.17

LN26602
Sapphire 52026-00-40R, AMD 790GX, AM2+, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR2 1066/800, SATA 3Gb/s, ATX, VGA £80.99 £93.14

LN26801
INWIN EA009, Black/ Silver Screwless Midi Case, Line Out/ 2x USB 2.0, ATX/ Micro ATX, 400W PSU £32.40 £37.26

Net Total
Carriage
VAT
£411.63
£9.99
£63.24
Total
£484.86

**Lemur** · 03-23-2009, 17:10

Originally Posted by Furunculus

LN23277
512MB Sapphire HD 4870, PCI-E 2.0, 3600MHz GDDR5, GPU 750MHz, 800 Cores, 2x DL DVI-I/ HDTV, HDCP £124.89

Actually, you could shave a little money here. The 4870 might be overkill for Empire; I've read many reports of people doing just fine with the 4850.

**Furunculus** · 03-23-2009, 18:43

probably is, but with the £40 price drop in the 4870 it is so close in cost to a 4850 that i reckon you might as well have the performance.

and i have to obey my golden rule of always spending ~50% more on the GPU than the CPU. ;)

**Mount Suribachi** · 03-23-2009, 19:37

Thanks for that Furunculus - where are you those prices from?

**Furunculus** · 03-24-2009, 12:09

scan.co.uk - my favourite etailer for PC bits and pieces.

you can actually do better than that by using the today only prices, i just used the list prices above.

**Mount Suribachi** · 03-30-2009, 16:39

Whilst I have in the past put together my own PCs (with a bit of help) its always been a struggle for several days to get it to work! I wouldn't mind just buying a box and going from there. So having said that, what do you think of this?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/r...c&c=home&r=RIC

I'd be plumping for the Pro version. As long as it would be good enough for ETW (and maybe Fallout3), I'm happy. Gaming time is limited these days anyway, and it would mainly be used by Mrs Suribachi for work :(

Thanks again.