Best Value item in your system

[BorisTheSpider]

Best value item? Hmm, probably my Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical, despite it being cheap and basic it's a very reliable mouse and feels great!

I would've said my Sapphire 128MB Radeon 9800Pro was the best value but I need a new PSU because of it, so it isn't as good value as what I thought at the time.

[Apex]

I have just recently realised what my best value component is. Its my gfx card -

Albatron Ti4680 Turbo


Its a quirky setup TBH. Albatron took a Ti4600 PCB (more layers and better paths than standard 4200) and stuck a Ti4200 core in it with AGP8x and 3.3ns super fast memory.

What does it do ?? Well it overclocks pretty well (standard 250/550 mem/core, overclock is currently 290/666) and outperforms Ti4600's all day long.... I did the overclock for CS:S yesterday and it upped my FPS from 30-ish to an average of 60-90fps on stock CS:S auality settings on a pretty high res (1280*768 widescreen mode)


Its best value item seeing as it only cost me £127 14 months ago !!!

ti4200p turbo

Mine cost me 140 quid, sold it start of this year for 80 quid 18months use out of it.


Best bargin...for me it has to be my altec lansing speakers 35 quid 5 years + ago and still going strong.

[mr_anderson187]

gotta be this nfs-7 mobo i got a month ago new for 51 pounds, mmmmmm sweet

[Barry]

My £25 KVM switch, woulden't be without it

[steve threlfall]

Has to be my memorex keyboard from ebuyer. Its silver and black- fantastic to use and only set me back six quid

[Rod911]

I'd have to say my 9800SE which was softmodded into a 9800Pro. Got it for AU$269, which is around £110.

[Rave]

Mine's got to be the combo of a softmoddable 9500 and Cornerstone P1500. 21" of glorious 1280x960 gaming for £140.

The £22 Duron 1400 that modded to XP and OCed to 2.1GHz has done alright, too....

Rich :¬)

[unrealrocks]

2400XP - Free
FX5950U - Free
SCSI Card - Free
60Gb SCSI HDDs (x2) - Free

There probably the best value items in my system Of the ones I've bought probably the two 200Gb Nakimi HDDs I've got, £60 each a few months back.

(Really should update my sig)

[5cupa]

my old vectra desktop case which runs my PIII passive and psu silent

[StormPC]

My Kingston PC3200 400MHz 1GB Hpyer-X kit that runs 486MHz 24/7 on my FX-53/A8V rig for $245.00 US.

[DomA]

gotta be my xpm-2600 runs 2.55G on 1.65v 24/7...... cost £60 delivered

[daniel_owen_uk]

Actually thinking about it I did get my nf7-s brand new for £40 that was a pretty good deal

[ernestlai]

It has to be my keyboard.. it came from a 386dx Packard Bell pc, total package about £2200.

The keyboard is really responsive, all the keys work fine and most of all no windows key for those annoying moments in a game OK the plastic is a lil yellower but its not ment to draw the ladies in.

[Alan]

My Creative DT2500 5.1 speakers which I've had for four years and the Microsoft 2.1 USB system which I got in 1998 - and still going strong. (On my sons machine).