Best upgrade combo?

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jj92_2 - 29 Sep 2007 22:08 GMT

Hi

Planning an upgrade of the home pc.

I have collected this nice combo,any suggestions on a better package
within the budget?

(Prices are in Danish kroner, about 7.5 to the €, 5,4 to the US$)

Hej,

Jeg er igang med at bygge en opgradering,og har nu valgt denne kombo.

Nogen forslag til forbedring indenfor ca.samme prisramme?

Processor - 1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ / 2.6 GHz Energy Effi...
893.00 kr.
ASUS M2N 1394 - Motherboard- ATX - Socket AM2 - UDMA133, Seria...
492.00 kr.
Kingston ValueRAM - Memory- 2 GB ( 2 x 1 GB ) - DIMM 24... 409.00
kr.
ASUS EN8400GS/HTP - GFX - GF 8400 GS - PCI Express... 355.00 kr.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - Harddisk - 160 GB -
SATA 370.00 kr.
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 LP - Coller - ( Sock... 137.00 kr.

Sub total 2,656.00 kr.

Me thinks it is a nice packge, got Directx10 support, 2Gig ram, nice
HDD, and 2 cores.

Any good input on a better package ?

/J

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Paul - 30 Sep 2007 08:31 GMT

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If the computer is not for playing 3D games, your system is fine.

If you plan on playing DX10 games in Vista, buy a stronger video card.
At least a 8600GTS or an 8800GTS. The charts here do not even list the
8400GS and it would be near the bottom.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=856&model2=859
&chart=275

Some more benchmarks here. Even the 8600GTS is almost useless in
some of the tests.

http://www.digital-daily.com/video/dx10_game_benchmark/index3.htm or
http://www.3dnews.ru/video/dx10_game_benchmark/index3.htm

Paul

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