OT - Need a computer, advice please?!?!

[Sam]

Hey guys, moving into my own place next week and need a computer/laptop of some sort, so can someone tell me the average procesor speed etc that i'll need, gonna be surfing the net alot, watching dvds and rewriting cds.

Cheers

 

[Roberto]

The basic principle is to get as much memory, as big a hard drive and as fast a processor as your budget will allow !

My personal recommendation is to look at AMD Athlon 64 Skt 939 processors, 3700+ as a minimum and if you can afford a dual core, go for it. As for a laptop, AMD Turion processors are good, but Pentium 4 M's still take a lot of beating.

Hard drive prices are tumbling so get a good, fast SATA drive, 250GB minimum.

Try for 2Gb of memory, 1GB as an absolute minimum.

Don't skimp on your graphics card. A nice Radeon or NVidia will be ok, preferably PCI-X16.

Onboard sound should be ok, but make sure it's capable of at least 5.1 surround if you're watching DVD's. It might pay to get a decent card instead.

That should get the ball rolling.

Oh, and whatever you do, DON'T buy it from Pissy Werld, or DICK-sons My advice is to get it custom built from a trusted local specialist. That way, you only pay for what you need and the service will be better


Rob

 

[Buzz]

imho only, dont spend TOO much on the cpu. about £100 on a decent 64bit athlon is about right. memory is cheap, and HDD's as Roberto said are getting really cheap, so load up on that for all your downloads.

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[Ash]

i got a pc u can have the only problem is that its broken just forked out and got a new duel core pentium. the thing is belistically fast i can install office burn a dvd watch a dvd play music all at the same time and i still cant get it to struggle lol

go for an intel pentium d 940 coupled with a gigabite ga-81945p-g-rh motherboard with 2 gig of crosair memory and a nice sata2 3gbps hdd and you will be laughing.

just done some bench tests and it kills the new equiv amd's at desktop applications and gets darn close with gaming!!