Still stuck on new pc Athlon vs pentium+graphics card

[sninky]

Hi
i posted a while back looking for advice on new computer and got some
good advice
so heres my new question
there are three PC's im looking at (THEY HAVE TO BE FROM PC WORLD)
Bummer

one is the
advent
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/085705

this one looksto have an ace spec im a bit due to it having pentium 4
and PC worlds home make
it apears to have an ok graphics card in it

The next is this one

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...fm=0&sm=0&tm=4&sku=124879&category_oid=-27507

This is the dual core pc it looks ok to me although reading reviews
graphics card looks a bit lame (not sure on this though as numbers seem
to mean nothing)

the next one is this
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...=Product&sku=252538&fm=0&sm=0&tm=1&tabIndex=1

now ive been told the athlon chip in this will run rings round pentium
4 ht or a dual core but the graphics card is naff and the ram is 1 gig
less so as i have £1k approx i could put an extra gig of ram and
either an

X800GT256 - R43CA-GD3D or a 6600 GT card in it

would this make it a beter system than the ones above

i want it to be able to run good games and handle the rest fine

is Dual core the best or is HT better than AMD fecked if i know

any help would be ace

 

[johan.vermaak]

That's a pretty difficult decision. I'm not quite sure, but I think
I'd prefer a dual core system, just because it will future proof you a
little bit. The X1300Pro card isn't that bad of a card for how much it
is by itself, one of the better value cards. But if you're looking for
more performance than that, why not just get that, and then in a while
when you have more money again, upgrade the video card? Personally
that's what I'd do. Otherwise, I think I'd go with the AMD 64 system,
and instead of getting a ATI X800GT, I think I'd go upscale a little
more and get the NVIDIA 6800GS which is not too much more. I just
built a friend a computer with the same processor, 1gb of ram, 250gb
harddrive, and a 6800GS and it flies. I'd recommend if you can afford.

 

[nobody]

Hi
i posted a while back looking for advice on new computer and got some
good advice
so heres my new question
there are three PC's im looking at (THEY HAVE TO BE FROM PC WORLD)
Bummer

one is the
advent
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/085705

this one looksto have an ace spec im a bit due to it having pentium 4
and PC worlds home make
it apears to have an ok graphics card in it

The next is this one

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...fm=0&sm=0&tm=4&sku=124879&category_oid=-27507

This is the dual core pc it looks ok to me although reading reviews
graphics card looks a bit lame (not sure on this though as numbers seem
to mean nothing)

the next one is this
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...=Product&sku=252538&fm=0&sm=0&tm=1&tabIndex=1

now ive been told the athlon chip in this will run rings round pentium
4 ht or a dual core but the graphics card is naff and the ram is 1 gig
less so as i have £1k approx i could put an extra gig of ram and
either an

X800GT256 - R43CA-GD3D or a 6600 GT card in it

would this make it a beter system than the ones above

i want it to be able to run good games and handle the rest fine

is Dual core the best or is HT better than AMD fecked if i know

any help would be ace

If gaming is your thing, A64 is the way to go. in all games of today
and most of tomorrow, a fast single core will kick the $#it out of
slower multicore because games are not multithreaded (or not
sufficiently multithreaded to take meaningful advantage of extra
core). A64 3700 is significantly faster than P4 3.4 and will walk all
over P4D 2.8 in any game.
For the same reason, get the fastest video your budget can handle.
Nvidia will be a better fit for one reason - you will not need to
re-install video drivers. 1GB RAM is good enough, unless you plan to
use it as database server or stuff like that.

NNN