I could do with a bit of advice please! I've just been given a couple of specs for new PC from a local computer company.
Other bits and bobs, 19" monitors, keyboard, mouse,speakers, sub woofer etc are included in the price - the two in question are as follows:
Advance AM2 Dual Core upgrade 3 Asus M/Board
200 GB Spinpoint HD200HJ SATA 8Mb Cache Hard Drive
Asus GeForce 8500 GT 512Mb PCI-E(x16) silent GDDR2 HDTV/Dual DVI Graphics Card
3 GB Ram
XP Home Edition
£510
Asus M/Board + Q6600 Core 2 Quad CPU
1000GB Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1 SATA II 7200 rpm 32MbCache
BFG GeForce 256Mb 8600 GT OverClocked PCI-E(16x) Mem 1400Mhz GPU 565MHz GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI Graphics
4Gb DDR2 PC2 (2 x 2Gb KIT REAPER 240pin)
Windows Vista Home Basic
£650
I want something that I can use as home office and can sneakily run games on comfortably,eg online roleplay type things like Second Life.
I notice the cheaper PC has 512Mb (Asus GeForce 8500) and the more expensice PC has 256Mb graphics card (BFG geForce 8600), although this is meant to be the high spec'd machine. i would have expected the more expensive card to have the higher Mb? Any comments on this? (I know bugger all about graphics cards) Are any of these cards sufficient?
Which would you go for? (or would you not go for either?) I'm looking for a home office pc thats more than capable of playing a game, music, surfing etc at the same time as working.I'm a bugger for having a game and a zillion programmes open at the same time does that help with what I need? I like to play Second Life and possibly have Photoshop running in the background, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo and a quite a few IE pages open as well. Yeh I'm a terribly sad multitasker, should be working but like to flick backwards and forwards between apps, chat and play.
Basically the chap that supplied the quote is able to build a machine to spec, the quotes he came up with were suggestions to what I said I needed in a machine so is pretty flexible I guess as to what to put in it.
Would you recommend a Dual core over a Quad?
Vista Premium over XP (I heard vista basic is pants)
What graphics card would be sufficient to play say, [B]Second Life and do the multitasking as mentioned above?
If I went to him with a suggested spec it would be good start I think. Would you suggest an alteration or two to one of the specs he suggested? Price is an issue, my husbands paying for the PC so I need to get it as cost effective as possible but also I'd like it to be fast and capable of multitasking! I dont want to go over £600, as much as possible under that and it would be fabulous!! (to include monitor and other gubbins)
Someone recommeded an E8400 over the Q6600 but I dont know anything! Are the recommended graphics cards any good? Help please I'm so baffled!!


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I'm a bugger for having a game and a zillion programmes open at the same time does that help with what I need? I like to play Second Life and possibly have Photoshop running in the background, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo and a quite a few IE pages open as well. Yeh I'm a terribly sad multitasker, should be working but like to flick backwards and forwards between apps, chat and play.
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