TRAV365 Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 (edited) im thinking of buying a new computer for ukdirt and for when rfactor comes out my last 3 pcs have all come from pc world and have never had much problems with any of them to be honest and all quite well priced. ive been on there site but am a bit confused as theres so bloody many i bascially am after the cheapest one i can buy so i can play colin mcrae dirt and these are the specs i need to play it System Requirements ---------------------------------------- TCP/IP mode (2-100 players) Requirements Broadband internet connection required - 512kbps + Recommended TCP/IP Network ---------------------------- Minimum Specifications ---------------------------- - Windows XP - DirectX 9.0c - Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz or Athlon 64 3000+ - 1GB RAM. - Graphics Card: GeForce 6800 / Radeon X1300 or above - DirectX Compatible Sound Card ---------------------------- Recommended Specifications ---------------------------- - Windows XP/Vista. - DirectX 9.0c - Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz or Athlon X2 3800+ - 2GB RAM. - Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 or Radeon X1950 - Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card. ---------------------------- Supported Graphics Cards ---------------------------- Shader Model 3 is a MINIMUM REQUIREMENT for this game. - ATi Radeon x1300, x1600, x1800, x1900, x1950 - nVidia Geforce 6800, 7100, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8800 any ideas what i should be looking for and a ruff price??????? still not really made my mind up even tempted to just stick with this and buy a xbox 360 for mcrae but heard from a few the xbox is not 100% reliable a mate at work has sent his back 3 times cheers trav Edited June 15, 2007 by TRAV365 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesy Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 ur not wrong there with the xbox360 when i got mine it did'nt even work properly so i sent it back for it to come back not working at all so i just askedfor my money back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watto Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Trav, Try www.dell.co.uk Can put in exact spec you want and they build it for you - price adds up as you add things. Even if you choose not to buy from Dell it gives you a real insight into cost etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2-Fan Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Trav for the recommended spec you have listed Dell do a pc for £574.73 which includes vat and delivery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAV365 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 cheers for the advice had a few pms to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoR137 Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Dell are very good (I've recently had a laptop from there) - just a word of advice if you do go for Dell, check back regularly as they update their offers quite a bit, if you can drop on a double memory offer that upgrades 1GB RAM to 2GB RAM then you can get yourself a bargain which should be super for all the latest games, and of course rFactor. So before you rush into buying anything just keep an eye out as they do double memory quite alot and it makes one hell of a difference! Hope this helps MoR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh924 Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 hi trav. i built my own pc and with some help from others. i wanted one that would play all the latest games with the good graphics, nothing worse than having a pc and you cant play rfactor or battlefield2 etc. the specs i have are. 1gb ram (top games will struggle on 512) 6800 gtx graphics card(plays all games no problem) 2.4ghz 4000+ processor of course not all folk no about pc,s but if you get a spec near that m8 itl be happy days for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch#331 Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 how much money do you have to spend trav ? don't buy a pre built pc from dell, pc world etc there over priced and under spec i hear alan builds pc's but its a 3 month wait on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gb junior Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 hi trav. i built my own pc and with some help from others. i wanted one that would play all the latest games with the good graphics, nothing worse than having a pc and you cant play rfactor or battlefield2 etc. the specs i have are. 1gb ram (top games will struggle on 512) 6800 gtx graphics card(plays all games no problem) 2.4ghz 4000+ processor of course not all folk no about pc,s but if you get a spec near that m8 itl be happy days for you. How much was that if you don't mind me asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh924 Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 hi trav. i built my own pc and with some help from others. i wanted one that would play all the latest games with the good graphics, nothing worse than having a pc and you cant play rfactor or battlefield2 etc. the specs i have are. 1gb ram (top games will struggle on 512) 6800 gtx graphics card(plays all games no problem) 2.4ghz 4000+ processor of course not all folk no about pc,s but if you get a spec near that m8 itl be happy days for you. How much was that if you don't mind me asking? in all it would have cost more than a grand roughley to buy the spec complete built it cost me just over 400 roughly ram was 80 hdd was 45 graphics was 60 second hand (250 new) processer was 100 (new) asus cd drive was 40 dfi lanparty motherboard 60 second hand (160ish new) case tower 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch#331 Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 hi trav. i built my own pc and with some help from others. i wanted one that would play all the latest games with the good graphics, nothing worse than having a pc and you cant play rfactor or battlefield2 etc. the specs i have are. 1gb ram (top games will struggle on 512) 6800 gtx graphics card(plays all games no problem) 2.4ghz 4000+ processor of course not all folk no about pc,s but if you get a spec near that m8 itl be happy days for you. How much was that if you don't mind me asking? in all it would have cost more than a grand roughley to buy the spec complete built it cost me just over 400 roughly ram was 80 hdd was 45 graphics was 60 second hand (250 new) processer was 100 (new) asus cd drive was 40 dfi lanparty motherboard 60 second hand (160ish new) case tower 30 all they bits you bought last year are half price now tosher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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