Currently have an AMD 64 3500, 1Gb Ram, 6600GT rig, and finding its now getting a bit slow for many of the newer releases out these days. Off on holiday next month, but looking forward to the New year I'll be upgrading my current system. I haven't looked at specs for a while though, so would appreciate any thoughts on the following:
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 5200 + Windsor Core, Dual Core 2.6GHz, 2x 1MB Cache, Retail £74.25
MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital AMD 690G, SAM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, ATX, VGA £44.64
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 £54.80
512MB XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Extreme, PCI-E (x16), 1900MHz, GDDR3, GPU 640MHz, 2x Dual Link DVI-I, Fan £199.61
500 GB Seagate ST3500630NS Barracuda® ES, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ £82.12
A PC Case £50.00
Tagan 530W PSU £64.50
LG 18x GSA-H66NBAL DVD±R, 10x DVD±DL, DVD + RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM £19.50
TOTAL £589.42
Also wondering what sort of price I may get for my current machine. I would imagine maybe £200-300? AMD 64 3500, 350GB Sata HDD, 70GB IDE Drive, XFX 6600GT, Tagan PSU.
Also thinking of changing the screen (currently have a 19" Samsung 913N TFT) but depends on finances and iddeally would like to upgrade to around 22". Looking to play the likes of Crysis, ET:QW, TF2, Bioshock, etc..
All thoughts appreciated. Thanks.