BF2S Forums My mates buyin a new pc

Not bad for the price and I'm assuming price is the all important factor with what it can do a very close second.  My only beef with it is the ATI video card; I'm not a big fan of ATI.  Nvidia drivers are so much more reliable.  Other than that, I don't have any qualms with it.

BTW, +1 for you trying to help out your mate!

02fxnmaurer wrote:

my friend is a simple guy, he just wants the gaming as long as it aint rubbish i dont think he would mind spendin tht amout of money

That's a poor video card. I'm not very familliar with ATI cards, but I think the X1600SE is just a budget GPU that doesn't have it's own proper video memory, but can use upto 512MB of system memory. I don't like the look of it.

Building it would be better.

Packard Bell still exists? I tought that they have already died in the 90´s.

seconded, the 1600SE is a very poor card for gaming, more aimed at the HTPC crowd rather than gamers - it does have its own memory but when ati labels a card SE it means its only got a 64bit memory bus and on top of that, its only got something like 4 pipelines.

in plain english, its crap and would struggle with bf2

Last edited by Mad Ad (2007-01-23 12:42:27)

It's alright, but I'd swap the GPU certainly, ATI's x1600 series arent exactly gaming cards.  Yet again I hate to say it but he could build a superior system hiself for around £500 (£20 for someone to do it for him), and hell no dont buy from PC world.

Martyn

Zero!. wrote:

lol DDR RAM..

seems strange for it not to have DDR2 as thats newer

meh.

Does seem very strange. I didn't notice that.


Coming from someone who once owned a Packard Bell - don't buy it.

lol karma for u all as i said its for my mate and not me, told him to build his own rig like i will be doing in next few weeks ,but insists on buyin from shop

ASUS 256MB RADEON X1950PRO CF PCI-E wats about tht card ?

Zero!. wrote:

lol DDR RAM..

seems strange for it not to have DDR2 as thats newer

meh.

Besides the fact that there's nothing wrong with DDR Ram..? .....yeh thats hilarious? I don't quite get your point.

I would buy the comp then buy a 7600GT or better and you can run on all high.

Last edited by younggun (2007-01-29 17:06:01)

I love how everyone thinks that just because something new has come out that the technology it "replaced" is obsolete.

Less than a year ago DDR was all anybody used. Hardly anybody had a dualcore processor.

Now DDR2 is here and its more mainstream and all of a sudden people think DDR sucks, when in reality its still good. Same thing with processors, now everybody thinks that 2 cores isn't good enough to do a job we used to do with only a single core. You think 4 cores is necessary and 2 cores aren't enough just because the technology is here.

02fxnmaurer wrote:

ASUS 256MB RADEON X1950PRO CF PCI-E wats about tht card ?

goood.

younggun wrote:

Besides the fact that there's nothing wrong with DDR Ram..? .....yeh thats hilarious? I don't quite get your point.

I would buy the comp then buy a 7600GT or better and you can run on all high.

I don't think anyone said DDR sucks but if there is something better than it why wouldn't you want what's better?

MagikTrik's Point wrote:

K, were gonna send you to war with armor, alright? But even though kevlar (and soon to be Dragon Skin) is better, mesh armor still works so that's what you get, k?

Last edited by MagikTrik (2007-01-29 22:29:36)