A good Gaming machine

[irishmark]

Right - when it comes to machine specs I know what's good and what's not. I've been building my own machines for the past 5 years!

A friend of mine wants to buy a ready built machine for gaming. He wants a ready made machine because:
1) He lives in Ireland and cant build one himself and I cant build it for him if he's in Ireland.
2) With pre built systems you usually get the whole bundle as in: you get monitors, keyboards, mice, Operating system Installed and so on.
3) You get the support option if it goes wrong!

His budget is around £800, for that i would expect serious graphics card performance, and striped raid setup.

So I ask you my breatheren! - Other than Alienware, Mesh & Dell can anyone recommend any Manufactureres that specialise in Gaming machines?

Answers on a postcard......

[Mark W]

Errr, how about an amiga, or a spectrum, err, sorry dunno.

[yeebsy]

How about;

CPU AMD® ATHLON® 64BIT 3000 (Winchester) 512kb L2 Cache (939 pin)

Memory
2048 MB DDR400 PC3200 WITH LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)

Motherboard
ATI CHIPSET RS482-M: DUAL DDR, SATA, x16 slot, 3 PCI ETC

USB Options
SIX USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT)

Hard Drive
SATA 80 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache
Second Hard Drive
SATA 80 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache
RAID
Stripe (£6)

DVD ROM/Combi Drive
16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM
CD/DVD Writer
52X 32X 52X CD WRITER

Graphics Card 1
256MB GEFORCE 7900GT PCI Express + DVI + DVI + TV-OUT

Sound Card
SoundBlaster X-FI Extreme Music 7.1: £78

Network Facilities
10/100 NETWORK CARD FOR BROADBAND - AS STANDARD

Floppy Drive/Card Reader
INTERNAL 23 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD FORMAT) (NO FLOPPY)

Case
Black Stylish Case + 2 Front USB
Power Supply & Cooling

Standard 500W PSU + 80mm Fan (See Case Info)

All for £781 inc VAT and Delivery.

Check it out, and build yourelf at http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php?page=amdex2

[Mihai]

Looks great. Very much similar to my video PC, which runs like a charm with Windows XP Pro x64.

[yeebsy]

Ye it's a good price as you are getting a lot of machine there, would need more drive space for video editing but for gaming it's pretty spot on.

[Mike Thorpe]

Originally Posted by yeebsy How about; CPU AMD® ATHLON® 64BIT 3000 (Winchester) 512kb L2 Cache (939 pin) Memory 2048 MB DDR400 PC3200 WITH LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB) Motherboard ATI CHIPSET RS482-M: DUAL DDR, SATA, x16 slot, 3 PCI ETC USB Options SIX USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) Hard Drive SATA 80 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache Second Hard Drive SATA 80 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache RAID Stripe (£6) DVD ROM/Combi Drive 16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM CD/DVD Writer 52X 32X 52X CD WRITER Graphics Card 1 256MB GEFORCE 7900GT PCI Express + DVI + DVI + TV-OUT Sound Card SoundBlaster X-FI Extreme Music 7.1: £78 Network Facilities 10/100 NETWORK CARD FOR BROADBAND - AS STANDARD Floppy Drive/Card Reader INTERNAL 23 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD FORMAT) (NO FLOPPY) Case Black Stylish Case + 2 Front USB Power Supply & Cooling Standard 500W PSU + 80mm Fan (See Case Info) All for £781 inc VAT and Delivery. Check it out, and build yourelf at http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php?page=amdex2

You wouldn't happen to work for them would you?

Just a few questions:

Why not a Venice core Athlon?
What brand RAM/HDD/Motherboard/DVD/Case/PSU?

[yeebsy]

Lol, no I don't work for them.

Why not a Venice core Athlon?
EDITED Ye the venice is only £9 difference (didn't notice that).

What brand RAM/HDD/Motherboard/DVD/Case/PSU?
Dunno what do you expect for £800? Although the RAM has lifetime warrenty so I should imagine it would be branded.

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