Help Battlefield 2

[Rush]

Hi All
forgive me for being stupid but i`ve just been trick or treatin round a neighbours house with my young daughter and wife (they are friends) and he showed me battlefield 2 on his PC to impress me and it did i`m addicted ... now heres the unfortunate bit he is coming around at xmas to play it on my P.C but mine is ancient compared to his !!!

I have a emachine 180
IM845GL Motherboard
1.8 Ghz Intel Celeron Processor
250GB HDD
640 MB Memory
3D AGP Extreme graphics

I know a new PC is the answer or is it...help me upgrade any of the above just so i can save face...Oh yeh he has a cool keyboard and small surround speakers... i think he said his processor is a Athlon 3000 or somethin !!!

 

[Me__2001]

unfortunately as mucks would say "your motherbard is crap" and its maxed out, if you want to upgrade you'll need pretty much a new system

 

[Rush]

Thanks now i know.....
I go to bed chilled, no cares to delve,
restrain my eyes so the stress is relieved,
but when i wake i startle up
that does`nt help my Battlefield !!

 

[Rush]

Ok coffee has rebalanced my Blood Sugar count.
If i save my 250GB HDD and my Pc2700 620 MB memory how cheap to save face !!! what is the best motherboard and what now is the AT LEAST required Processor speed !!!

 

[Me__2001]

i'd save just the HD and optical drive, how much do you want to spend ?

 

[Rush]

Nothing !!! ok £500

 

[Me__2001]

ok if you keep all of the peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor etc) and the two drives you can get a pretty good system

Asus A8N-SLI
Athlon64 3200
Leadtek 6600GT
1GB of Geil value RAM
Antec Sonata II case with 450W PSU

thats about £470 its about £435 if you get 512MB of RAM, you will also want a copy of XP home which is about £60 all from www.overclockers.co.uk

this will be able to play battlefield 2 fine on the default settings

 

[ChristopherP]

If you can get an X800XL or an X800GTO then even better.

 

[Rush]

Wow.. Cheers guys....

 

[muckshifter]

unfortunately as mucks would say "your motherboard is crap" and its maxed out, if you want to upgrade you'll need pretty much a new system

MB crap?
err, and the rest.

I'll give you 50p for the old one ...


OK, I'll leave you in ME's capable hands ... good spec ME.

 

[Rush]

Can anyone beat ME`s spec !!! and save me dosh or is he the No1 ..as for the old one 50p is good if it saves me face ..
I`v been trawlin or should i say surfin the net and got all the parts with the help of froogle to £420 without the OS..will the new system deliver and make him errrr not say anything ...

 

[tomsega]

i'd save just the HD and optical drive, how much do you want to spend ?

Lets not forget if we're talking a 5000rpm ata drive here - which we probably are - sticking an x800 and a 3ghz CPU next to it might be a big waste of cash...

 

[Rush]

The HDD is a 7200 RPM EIDE is it ok ??

 

[Me__2001]

The HDD is a 7200 RPM EIDE is it ok ??

yeah thats fine

 

[Rush]

Is this what i need then ??

Asus A8N-SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3200BPBOX) (CP-118-AM)

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)



Is this the correct memory and video card ??



GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)

Leadtek WinFast PCX6600TD GeForce PCX6600 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-046-LT)

with my 7200rpm EIDE HD ??

 

[tomsega]

That sounds very nice.

That's especially good because the PCI-express motherboard will let you add another 6600 to that to have two in SLI mode, or upgrade to a 7800 - or whatever comes out after that. The socket 939 should be in use for a while, so you could get a 4200+ processor when they get cheap as well.

With regards to the 7k hdd, you might want to get a S-ATA drive, because they are faster (even at the same RPM).

The Wester Digital Rapter 10,000rpm drives are expensive, but if you got a 40/80gb one purely for the operating system and system intensive applications like gaming, you would see a big difference and really get your moneys worth out of the other components. You could then keep your older slower drive, which will probably be bigger, for storing Pictures/movies/documents and so on that aren't affected by access times.

 

[Me__2001]

if you want what i listed then follow the links below

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Socket_939_cpus.html (second one down)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ASUS_Socket_939.html (third one down)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6600_GT.html (first one)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/GeIL_Value.html (first or second, its up to you)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Antec_Cases.html (fifth from bottom)

and a copy of XP home

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Operating_Systems_20.html

if you get 1 GB of RAM it all comes to about £530

 

[Rush]

Thanks alot ME , just goes to show there r people out there who like to help and not let folks like me suffer ... Top Man

 

[Rush]

Best thing and most ironic is that i will save loads of money on delivery.. I only live 1 mile from Overclockers base in Fenton, Staffs...

Just gets better and better...