after having a quite frankly S***.... few months (women... need i say more) I've just found out some of my bonds are now through... so on November the 2nd I can get my hands on £582(Y)
I reckon I can stretch it to £800 and possibly £900... (I REALLY WOULD PREFER NOT TOO UNLESS REALLLYYYYY WORTH IT)
I want to use it for gaming and photoshop / dvd movie making and conversion off the digi camera's in my home... web browsing & email, media and gaming really i guess sums it up
When I say gaming I'm not saying I want the most REAL graphics because I assume that would be stupid to think I'd get them on that kind of budget?
at the moment im currently on a xp-m overclocked at 2.2ghz 400fsb or more (can't remember) 1gb ram with a ati 9600XT... so anything that can double that or whatever would be nice I'd like to get into some games and have them look resonably pretty
a nice hard drive size would be good.atleast 120GB or maybe 100GB if the rest is up to spec.
I'll probably end up using the old machine for a storage serv or summit? any ideas on what os/software to use for this? a nice tasty linux distro might be nice I'm gagging for abit of linux again haha. Which would be more reliable? win/lin?
so in short... 800quid budget ideally at a PUSH £900... with reasonably nice gaming and fast to multitask? like dvd burning/itunes/photoshopping? With a nice 100/120gb+ hdd... dvdrw... nice graphics... please!
probably would say C2D prefered? Unless AMD have caught up?
links wellll wanted
cheers.any ideas welcomed.
would xp pro give me better gaming preformance over vista ultimate for example?
oh and a 17" would be niceee