Hello!
having just passed my second sets of finals exams (only one left then i qualify!!), recieved some money from NHS bursary scheme, and sold off my cpu/mobo/ram, i need to know what to do.
here is what I have left:
1) Fulltower case (love it)
2) 2x320gb seagate 7200.10s in 2xCooldrive 6
3) Corsair HX620W
4) Audigy 2ZS
5) 19inch dell CRT
6) 2x160gb Seagate 7200.7s
So I have around £8-900 for a PC.
Part of me was thinking to try and stretch the following:
1) E6600 - £200
2) Asus Vista motherboard - £150
3) 2gb of PC8000 RAM - £200
4) 8800GTX - £350
That comes to around £900 and I dont get a monitor or vista. but i should be able to get good mileage by overclocking both cpu and gfx!
Second choice is to wait for a Dell deal where they do a free monitor upgrade and get a dimension 9200 E6600, 2gb RAM, 24inch TFT, some hard discs, and 7900GS graphics card for around that price.
That would come to around £900 and i wouldnt have a nice graphics card, any use for my HX620, and nowhere to put my lovely hard drives. I also wouldnt be able to overclock this system as itll be a dell.(oh, but i do get Vista business in the deal)
so, what to do?!
im quite confused, i will not have too much time to use my PC, but i want it to be so that when I do use, i enjoy it.
Either that, or I keep using my athlonXP3200/1gb ram/radeon 8500 until i move out to the hospital accomodation when i get my job. (this computer is really getting on my nerves, not enough power to USB devices, cant recognise USB keyboard natively, keeps crashing, cant do more than one thing at a time on it)
any help would be much appreciated - or should i just forget all of this and go on a trip around north europe via interrail for 4 weeks?