CPU and graphics card upgrade

[DJT298]

Originally Posted by shadowmaster

You sound like my bank manager

I wish I took my own advice at times

[cooge]

Wow! confusing!!!
The machine is going to be used solely as a gaming machine. I was going to upgrade to a 24" monitor but now not so sure. One of my mates as a 24" monitor and runs Crysis on it and it looks superb. He has a Nvidea 9800gt card but not sure what res he is running it at.
Im starting to think I may be better off buying a brand new dedicated games machine for around £1500 rather than paying out £700 in upgrades and just putting a 9800 card in this machine for the rest of the family to use as a general pc (son gaming, wife, internet & office).

[shadowmaster]

Originally Posted by cooge

Wow! confusing!!!
The machine is going to be used solely as a gaming machine. I was going to upgrade to a 24" monitor but now not so sure. One of my mates as a 24" monitor and runs Crysis on it and it looks superb. He has a Nvidea 9800gt card but not sure what res he is running it at.
Im starting to think I may be better off buying a brand new dedicated games machine for around £1500 rather than paying out £700 in upgrades and just putting a 9800 card in this machine for the rest of the family to use as a general pc (son gaming, wife, internet & office).

You wont have to pay up £700 in upgrades to run crysis like your mate.

If you leave the cpu upgrade (as DJT298 said), as that's really not needed, you can change the monitor to a 24 inch which should cost around £200, and then the upgrade to a gtx 260 or ati 4870 (£170) which will quite easily obliterate the 9800gt. (The 9800gt is just renamed 8800gt.)

Total cost £370

Its up to you though, you can still buy a dedicated gaming machine (make sure you buy from Mesh ) and give the old one to your family, but if you do that I would not bother upgrading the gfx card unless your family plays crysis.

Also bear in mind, that if you were to buy a gaming pc now for £1500, you will have to start upgrading it within a space of a year or two. As I have found out, pc games just keep getting more and more demanding as time goes on.

P.S. DJT298 , you have infected me

[cooge]

Bearing that in mind I think im going to buy a xbox 360.


Only Joking

I need another pc so think i will buy a dedicated gaming rig for my self and let the family reek havoc with the other.

Thanks for the advice, things are a lot clearer now.