Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

[Noni]

I have configured a nice sensible PC for playing BF2.

MOTHERBOARD- £76

ASUS A8N-E

CPU- £192

AMD 64 3700+ San Diego

RAM

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit- £140

OR

Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR PC4000 Ballistix Dual Channel Kit- £140

OR

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series EL-DDR CAS2- £264

GPU- £211

XFX or eVGA 6800GT 256MB GDDR3

HD- £125

Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM

MONITOR- £208

IIYAMA ProLite H431S-B 17" TFT screen black


TOTAL WITH MONITOR- £952

TOTAL WITHOUT MONITOR- £744

TOTAL WITH OCZ RAM AND MONITOR- £1076

TOTAL WITH OCZ RAM AND NO MONITOR- £868

Of course case and cooling is your choice.

Hope you like.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

Good system, I'm not a big fan of GeiL though.

[Noni]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

Good system, I'm not a big fan of GeiL though.

Well its cheap, dual channel and its 2GB.

Ram is all the same to me. lol. Unless u wana OC.

EDIT- BTW Could this be a sticky in the HARDWARE forum? So people know what to look for?

Thanks.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

I see your point, and it IS good value for a 2GB dual channel kit and perhaps I am biased slightly because I like to OC stuff.

I'll move this to the hardware forum ...and stick it as long as it stays as an informative thread about BF2 playable full systems and not as a hardware fanboy thread like the other 5000 there.

[Noni]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

I see your point, and it IS good value for a 2BG dual channel kit and perhaps I am biased slightly because I like to OC stuff.

I'll move this to the hardware forum and stick it as long as it stays as an informative thread about BF2 playable full systems and not as a hardware fanboy thread like the other 5000 there.

Hehe yea. Thanks alot :).

[Despach]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

G.Skill Ram is very good stuff. 1gb of DDR400 will ste you back about £70 from ocuk. It is rated as 6 3 3 2 out of the box but is very happy to run at 8 4 4 2.5 (with 2.75 volts) at DDR500.

[UnrealAlex]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

great stuff. would be a lot better if you could provide links for those prices.

[Noni]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

All prices where taken from www.overclockers.co.uk

They dont show direct links to thier products so i didnt think it was worth it. But if more people ask i will put the links up :).

[Noni]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

G.Skill Ram is very good stuff. 1gb of DDR400 will ste you back about £70 from ocuk. It is rated as 6 3 3 2 out of the box but is very happy to run at 8 4 4 2.5 (with 2.75 volts) at DDR500.

Your right, check this out!

G.Skill 1GB DDR ZX PC3200 (2x512MB) CAS2 Dual Channel Kit

£88

2-3-3-6 timings!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/G_Skill.html

[Snake101]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

G.Skill does have some preety nice ram and it is suposed to work well with Nforce3 chipsets :)

[Sniper_13]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

Kick *** system u got there. might wana consider geting a bigger hard drive though.

[Noni]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

I have a 60GB one, and its fine for me. I have alot of music and some games.

If you must have a big one just add a 120GB or 200GB HD for £50-80.

[Despach]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

One other thing; I'd dump the Raptor abd replace it with 2 or even 3 Samsung SpinPoint P HD120IJ 120GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-022-SA) @ £57 inc VAT (from overclockers.co.uk).

The new Samsungs are faster then the Raptors, quieter and more reliable.

Now I know there is gonna be a people that won't believe the faster bit so...

Custom PC review

In testing with Raptor came in a full 10 seconds slower than the Samsung on Farcry level loading. Have to bear in mind the Raptor is yesterday's technology as far as SATA drives go.

[Snake101]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

I tend to lean towards Seagate harddrives, but that is just me

[DaSniper]

Re: Looking for a new PC for BF2? Look here.

anyone wanna translate that euro money to US money???