Is this a good enough system?

[CorannFaun]

Hello i am seeking some advice on whether the system below will be good enough for the new DX10 game titles such as Crysis.

System Specification:

- Xion III Gaming Mid-Tower

- Thermaltake W0093 TR2-500Watt Power Supply ATX 12V

- (Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 CPU @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 2x2MB L2 Cache EM64T

- ECS P965T-A P965 Chipset LGA775 Supports Core 2 Duo CPU FSB1066 DDR2/800 Mainboard w/GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394&7.1Audio

- 1 GB Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader

- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

- 160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

- Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium

This system is going to cost me £1052 from cyberpowersystem.co.uk

The only thing i was worried about was the PSU and the 1 GB of memory.

Any comments would eb highly apreciated.

CorannFaun

 

[talldude123]

1. Why aren't you building your computer? It would be cheaper to buy parts from an online store and build the PC yourself. If you don't know how, I would highly recommend upgrading the memory on that system, as Vista uses about half that memory alone, and having a game on that will make it very slow. Everything else looks OK though.

 

[CorannFaun]

Thank you for your reply.

Well i dont want to build a system beacuse i just want a system to work and not have to worrie about the parts breaking and then having to buy a new one.

What about getting this memory.

2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory

and instead of the GTX a GTS ?

Thank you again,

CorannFaun

 

[talldude123]

That combination should be good. It will run Crysis no problem. The requirements are lower than your system specs, which is good

Recommended Requirements

CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
RAM: 1.5Gb
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX10 with Windows Vista


*See why you need 2GB of RAM *

 

[CorannFaun]

Aye thank you alot! means an extra £94

I am just pricing up to see how much it would be do build one myself :S

lol

Again thank you,

CorannFaun

 

[b0dge]

You really should consider building it yourself. If you research it, and ask the crazy-mad-techs here any questions you have, it'll be easy as pie!

 

[CorannFaun]

Aye i will be just so worried that i have just spent loads of money on parts and i will have visions of it all frying when i press "on" :S

I really would love to though! but i love money hehe!

So far i have looked on Ebuyer and made a good system for £1088.

now i am looking on scan.

Thank you,

CorannFaun

 

[Phrantic]

You can look for a shop that will assemble your parts for you at a low price (something like £25). They will put the hardware together and test the system. Meaning you don't get damaged parts, you get a guaranteed working system.

 

[CorannFaun]

Aye great was just thinking about that. I think i will enquire at a shop tomorow.

Y'all have been a great help thank you

If you had about £1000 to spend on a PC now what would you get?


CorannFaun

 

[b0dge]

Probably something like this:

https://secure.scan.co.uk/Shop/ViewCart.ASP?SessionCheck=472147189