Need to buy a excellent pc gaming pc this week.... any advice?

Heya,

If anyone has any suggestions on whats current and really fab for PC gaming right now id be really glad to hear some suggestions. I think i need to buy at least a 2 gig dual core processor with a gig of ram? but I'm not sure where to start. I'm buying it here in the UK in one week and any suggestions would be fab!

Peace out, GibboViper.:roll:

Heya,

If anyone has any suggestions on whats current and really fab for PC gaming right now id be really glad to hear some suggestions. I think i need to buy at least a 2 gig dual core processor with a gig of ram? but I'm not sure where to start. I'm buying it here in the UK in one week and any suggestions would be fab!

Peace out, GibboViper.:roll:

GibboViper

Well if you wana overclock you can get a beast of a processor for a lower price. The core 2 duo is the proc to get something like the e4300 or e6400 and overclock them to what you want you should be able to get 2.6 very easily. DDR2 667 ram. 8800GTS/GTX. For motherboards get something like gigabyte ga-965p or Asus p5b.

 If you don't want to overclock then get a e6700 or something.

2 gigs of ram...will do .Guy in a shop tried to pass of 1 gig of ram and i wasnt impressed. will stick to 2 gig in the shops if asked how much i need. many thanks,

GibboViper.

yeah right now I'm on desktop pc, 80 gb Hdd , 256 mb ram, win xp, p4 2 ghz, ge force4 mx440 - 64mb ddr ram, , and it is so slow. i cant online game any more as it lags out so bad and i cant play any more of the total war series as it practically crashes and takes an age to load and real time battles are almost impossible now.

On april 3rd im getting a new 16mb cable put in under a new company, so my new pc must be like a rocket also so i can relax at least for about 2 years and game hardcore again. Ah i will be sking but it will be worth it.  many thanks for all your comments so far as its such a huge help. Im actually a noob when it comes to technology so all advice is really appreciated!

GibboViper.

whats stalker? GibboViper

ok definately XP for gaming then, whoa i didnt know any of this. Cant thank you guys enough. Will upgrade to vista later. Many thanks. GibboViper

whats stalker? GibboViper

Its a very good hardcore survival horror game of sorts.

At the moment its a little buggy but it should slowly get sorted with patch work. Heres a link to it: http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/stalker/index.html?q=stalker

Edit: Oh sorry hadn't refreshed in a few minutes and didn't realise someone had already answered. 

Interesting, could you tell me what a quad core is though? ive never heard of it. Everyone right now said the intel core 2 CPU is the best to have for gaming?. Apart from having vista for a quad core would i need to raise or buy anything else stat and spec wise to make the machine run amazingly?GibboViper

Interesting, could you tell me what a quad core is though? ive never heard of it. Everyone right now said the intel core 2 CPU is the best to have for gaming?. Apart from having vista for a quad core would i need to raise or buy anything else stat and spec wise to make the machine run amazingly?GibboViper

Quad core is... well basicaly four processor cores rather than one of two. Quad cores are great if the game/program is optimised for them but if not you might have some problems. For example, Rainbow Six Vegas isn't optimised for multi core processors and it requires a processor of atleast 3GHz, but if you have a 2.4GHz dual core its actually a faster processor than a 3GHz single core but the game is only using one core causing that single core to work other time because its only 2.4GHz. But its hard to explain because at the same time its wrong to say a dual core 2.4GHz is the equivilent to 4.8GHz because thats not the way it works, it works as 2.4GHz twice, which probably sounds confussing because I can't find a better way to describe it. But if you want a quad core like the QX6700 then you'll have to shop around because I know some motherboards have incompatability problems with quad core processors, namely the Asus Striker Extreme. As far as trying to get your computer to run well just try and make sure your parts are very compatably with eachother. Maybe once you've got a list of the parts you want, post it back on here and see what people say.

ok ty, well i have alot to go on now. Ill pop in to my local hardware store and give them these specs. Sometimes i think in these shops they are taking me for a ride or just wanting me to hand over the cash. At least now i have some ammo.

Many thanks again and i will post their suggestions back here before buying to make sure it all checks out. Best regards,

GibboViper.