pls help with dilemma

[stfury]

Hi there,

Please can someone advise me on this.

Lucky me, I'm getting roughly 5k at the end of the month (old pc has basically completely broken down).

I'm looking at buying the ATI HD4850 (512Mb) for about +-R2300.
I really couldn't care less about the case, I'm going to be getting an 80gig SATA HD. However, this means that I might have to go a little lower on my mobo and cpu assuming I will have +- R1.8k for those 2 after Case, PSU, Hard Drive, RAM and Graphics Card Have been bought.

Just in terms of CoD4 (in the neverending quest for constant 125) , am I making the right move here or should I rather go for a cheaper 8600GTe.t.c. and a more powerful mobo and cpu.

Thanks for your time,
Me

 

[HavocXphere]

Hi there,

Please can someone advise me on this.

Lucky me, I'm getting roughly 5k at the end of the month (old pc has basically completely broken down).

I'm looking at buying the ATI HD4850 (512Mb) for about +-R2300.
I really couldn't care less about the case, I'm going to be getting an 80gig SATA HD. However, this means that I might have to go a little lower on my mobo and cpu assuming I will have +- R1.8k for those 2 after Case, PSU, Hard Drive, RAM and Graphics Card Have been bought.

Just in terms of CoD4 (in the neverending quest for constant 125) , am I making the right move here or should I rather go for a cheaper 8600GTe.t.c. and a more powerful mobo and cpu.

Thanks for your time,
Me

If you have a 5k budget and buy a R2300 GFX then you're stuck with R2700 for the rest....which is *seriously* tight. I'd suggest lowering your sights on the GFX slightly...but not to rockbottom/8600. A 8800 perhaps? Or a 3870? Maybe even second-hand? imo PC performance is all about balance. There is no point in buying a top of the range GFX and then putting it in a celeron powered PC.

If you're a gamer then 80gig is not going to cut it. Any modern game install is ~7gig so you'll spend a lot of time uninstalling+reinstalling stuff.

 

[Threepwood]

If I were you I'd get one of these (I am going to get one soon):
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/t-series/content.php?S_ID=286,

and an E2180 or similar, then overclock the hell out of it. Average people get ~3Ghz oc with these and that's quite some power for the price.

A friend has had that motherboard for a while now and it's good, no problems reported, someone on this same forum recommended the board for overclocking too.