For those who never look at PS forums :) HELP!!!

[mavis]

Opinions please............ at the mo its a toss up between this or raiding the piggy bank and getting an alienware m9700 laptop.

Thermaltake Aquila Case
ASUS AN8 SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2GB of Kingston Paired R.A.M
AMD X2 4200 Dual Core Processor
7950 GX2 DDR3 1GB Graphics Card
Hiper 580W Power Supply Unit (electric blue)
Maxtor SATA2 250GB Hard drive
Audigy Soundblaster 7.1 Surroundsound unit
Coolermaster Thermal Control Unit
19 Inch TFT Monitor
DVDRW
CDRW
WIFI Card
Floppy Drive
Microsoft Windows XP Pro Operating System (pre installed)
Microsoft Office 2003
Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers
£900 inc vat, exl delivery (£25)

Price in OCuk works out at around £1200 ex OS and extra bits.

Is it worth buying? I should have enough to throw another 7950GX2 into it, making 2gigs quad core graphics, only poor part is the cpu, and not sure what memory it is.

[Twang]

As an owner of an 4800+ and an Asus A8N32, I'd say buy a Core-2-Duo cpu instead.

[Crazy Ivan]

I would agree with your assessment m8. Poor cpu, coupled with the fact an upgrade from that CPU is like buying a new machine again (AM2 or intel (mobo, cpu, memory). Prolly the reason why the system is so cheap. :cool:

Do you need to get a whole new system?
or could you update the one you have, cause for £900 thats an ok buy, but £900 is a great update. :cool:

E6600 core 2 duo way to go. :cool:

One thing tho m8, if your going to Quad SLI it, that PSU wont be enough I dont think.

[Twang]

Think ivan's right about the psu, it's the 1 i got and it ain't powerfull enough for 2 GTX cards.

Also, that's a pretty poor soundcard, and a really crappy case :P

[mavis]

I don't tend to upgrade, I'm aiming to have a PC in every room :D . Plus my main at the moment is a SFF so not easy to boost it too much, My other is a lot older and would need everything but a case, the other is one of my kids and thats V slow, so not really any point in upgrading, was gonna buy this then switch it around with my coolermaster case, sell the mobo+cpu, get a core 2 duo and stick with the single(or is it already double...) GPU until I need to bother getting a new PSU. Basically I'd have to build it from scratch anyway, and it would cost a lot more for the same kit if I did, so even if swapping stuff out I reckon I'd be better off.

Basically if I bung in another GPU £300, Mobo and cpu £300, then sell what I have I should have a top rate system for around £1300, at OCuk it would cost me around £1600

I ain't bothered about sound cards to be honest, I'll just stick an old 5.1 in if its onboard sound, I can never tell the difference (phillistine!!!). Same with fast hard drives, never had a noticable effect to me.

[Crazy Ivan]

I think you've answered your own question then m8.
Go for it :cool:

[Mortice]

There's a review of that Graphics card in the new PCZone Mag and it gets 82%.

It say's it's a great card and that but to take advantage of what it can do you need an absolute minimum of a 500w PSU, At least a bleeding edge processor (Core2 Duo or FX) and a monitor that can handle it's output (Insane resolutions amd refresh/response times). It also say's that it has all the advantages and disadvantages of SLI. Great when it works, but if the sodtware isn't coded for it then it's tough and when you have SLI switched on you can't use 2 screens.

Why you would want to shove another one of these in your computer and have 2 is beyond me. I don't even know if you could, seeing as you would use the SLI function with one card and to use it as 2 would only use half of each card :(

[rubber duck]

Custom PC Magazine, Darn best Hardware magazine available ;).

[KaZuYa^]

i wouldnt buy an alienware anything :)
when i bought my evesham laptop for £1700 the same spec alienware would have cost £3000 LOL
they may look nice but are very overpriced