[plug] dual-boot "gamers" machine h/w suggestions please?

[Shannon Carver]

Careful with that Arie.

It's listed as an 8x AGP, PCI-E Graphics card.  My understanding is its one
or the other, either AGP or PCI-E and that AGP is next to dead (apart from a
mid-range card that's been released recently, the 7600GS) and basically
being phased out.

With that in mind, I'd still build a box from scratch.  It's probably a
decent price, keeping in mind the LCD was probably 300-400 on its own, but
the specs are fairly low in the way of a game machine.

You'd be better to:
Get a better motherboard, with multiple PCI-E slots (in case you wanted to
go SLI, seems the way of the gamer nowadays), more RAM, much better video
card (the one listed is now at least a year old, NVIDIA has just started
with the 8 series, two in front of the 6600).

All in all, its not a bad machine, I just wouldn't be expecting huge
performance out of it.

Shannon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Arie Hol
> Sent: Friday, 8 December 2006 1:42 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] dual-boot "gamers" machine h/w suggestions please?
> 
> 
> 
> On 6 Dec 2006 at 17:13, Denis Brown wrote:
> 
> > Dear PLUG list members,
> >
> > A bit out of my depth with this one not being a game player :-(
> >
> > Looking for recommendations for commercially built and supported,
> > preferably brand-name desktop hardware capable of good gaming graphics
> > performance.   Will dual-boot Lin / Win.
> >
> 
> I was just having a look at a computer regarding the above, at :
> 
> http://www.computersurplus.com.au/showproduct.php?id=SYSTEM-ELITEGAMER
> 
> Could  some of the clued up gamers on this list give me some feedback on
> the system shown - and where appropriate recommend different specs and/or
> prices that may be more appropriate for a high performance/gaming PC.
> 
> Also - would like some guidance as to whether the price/quality is
> reasonable.
> 
> 
> Regards Arie
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