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krishnavamshi24

Hi Everyone,

I see a lot of good advice coming in from everyone so want some advice on my upgrading my old Pentium 4 based PC

Things i need: Budget 30k
CPU
GPU
Mobo
Ram
Cabinet
PSU

Awaiting your suggestions, and currently i have a LCD 19'' with DVI support.

rajan1311

we have alrdy told b4 that this is not a good time to upgrade. We shall suggest a good config at the right time.A good time line would be mid feb - early march. The reason is that new technology has just arrived and older generation processors are gonna have a price cuts soon. Gfx cards are getting cheaper as more and more manufacturers are coming to India. If you are in a hurry, chk other threads, many configs have been put up for a very wide rage of performance and price.

ShAdOwCoN

CPU = Core2Duo E7300 2.66Ghz Rs 5750
MotherBoard = Intel G43 chipset Rs 5500 [PCI-E2 compatible]
Ram = 2Gb DDR2 800Mhz =Rs 1100
Cabinet -Zebronics Anti-biotic [with neon lights /LED temp display ] rs 2000
GPU - ATI HD4850 or NVIDIA 9800GT Rs 8000-95000k

Rest for the PSU

Gary4gar

How about the AMD based setup?

ShAdOwCoN

^ Does that come under rs30k ??

Make sure to buy a good PSU tho ......

Gary4gar

easily as he does not have to purchase screen. he said he would use LCD 19"

Harshytkage

30k soen't really sounf like a good budge t for a gaming pc especially....i mean, specific GPU's cost more than that, i'd recommend the ATI 4670 looking at ur budget and the other things u hve to buy, but you could go for the 4850 if you stretch it anothe 5k rs....get a good psu, around 400-600 watts thuogh i have my doubts if you couls set up a gaming rig with 600 bucks.

ShAdOwCoN

There is nt any necessity to buy 30k worth GPU ..... 9800Gt or an HD4850 can run 80%of the latest games in max gfx settings ....

ag_prasun

even games like crysis run good on low config coms with atleast 2gb ram and 256mb gpu.but you have to sacrifice on the grphics and go for low graphics.

ShAdOwCoN

crysis runs perfectly with full gfx on a 8800GT .... Crysis is no more the standard for Great graphics .... GTA4 took that place i think ......

ag_prasun

aawww cumon!!!
gta4 graphics are nothing compared to Crysis ulra-high settings!!!

ShAdOwCoN

Kid me not .... Crysis was running perfectly fine on my c2d ,8800GT and 3GB ram on very high setting [highest setting] ..... with almost all the rest of extra effects turned on ......

But when i tried maxing out my settings on GTA 4 on the same config ..... i was literally weeping ...... I could only set the gfx settings to 70% of its full capability .....


Its a no contest really GTA4 is setting the standards

ag_prasun

perhaps we have played a differnet crysis and gta4!!



cos crysis on my friends nvidia dual-sli 712mb gpu with 4gb ram and 2.6c2d couldn't give more than 20-22fps at ultra-high.

on the other hand, gta4 flows like water on my 2gb system with 512mb gpu!!

ShAdOwCoN

That seems vague
which GPU please ??

ur friend's and urs ??

ag_prasun

mine is 8800gt.my frnds' i'll ask him and let u know 2moro!!

ShAdOwCoN

i would like to ask u a few more questions pls

-->Ur processor speed ?? p4 or c2d

-->When did u buy ur gfx card??

pls answer both ... i want to know what went wrong with mine

ag_prasun

dell xps m1530(jan 2008)
c2d 2.0ghz 2mb cache.
2gb ddr2 667mhz
160gb 5200rpm
nvidia 8800gt 512mb integrated in motherboard.

since i dnlded my gta4, there was a strange scene where the hero sways drunkenly in the city.it used to hang there.but after applying the patch,it was fine!

ShAdOwCoN

is it a laptop ??

Oh crap ! No wonder so u have been using the integrated 8800gt thats y the problem

G98 chipset motherboard right??

ag_prasun

yeah its a laptop!
and i tink you have hit it ryt!! integrated gpu makes my total graphics ram upto 2gb!!
wait a sec.let me check out the motherboard make..

ShAdOwCoN

Go to start-->Run

Type DxDiag

tere u can check ur mobo make

waiting