Best Games Hardware

[Dodo]

Hey in anotha topic i'm tryin to solve problems on me computer, however once these problems are resolved i hope to build it up with the neccasary hardware to play games very well. I've got a rough idea of what i'm getting but i would appreciate other peoples opinions on whts the best hardware for my budget. which is round £500.

Currently I have a 1.62Ghz processer
512mb RAM
20GB HDD
Geforce 5200 128mb

Wht can people suggest, the cheaper the better.

PS Please dn't give links to american shops as i live in the UK.

[homer]

lets see....

double ur processor speed.
double ur RAM
X10 times ur hardrive
double ur graphics card (to 256mb)

the hardrive upgrade is optional, but ull want to be able to hold alot of games and videos and stuff. and 20gb aint gonna cut it.

for prices ill give u what i got.

processor- 3ghz $200
RAM------- 2X512mb $125
harddrive- SATA 300gb $120
graphics-- geforce 7600 GT 256mb $250

that works up to... 488.93 EUR

i also recommend adding another gig of ram for an additional $125

[GeorgeG]

Yebo Gogo,

Would say that 1GB will do the trick, my specs:
Radeon ATI 7500 128bit
Plenty of HDDs (2 x 160 Sata + 2 x IDE's)
1 GB Ram
HT 3.4 GHz Processor
And I can run Half Life 2 on highest configs as well as Call of duty + some other high end games.
No fuss of PC getting eating up ram cause in play it uses max 28% of ram.
Prossecor usage round about 15-30% max
Try 1GB first then up it later.

Cherio.

[Harold_the_2nd]

Advising a radeon as video card is already the start of a bad advise, whatver you do, don't use radeon as videocard, the card is good, but buy hercules or some other provider.

[GX1_Man]

What???  

[T-Chai]

What you talking about radeon is probably one of the best

[pandora95]

2 save money you dont need a 300gb hardrive(srry to argure)but i have a 160 gb harddrive and i have at least 6 games and still more than half my harddrive left ,and about your videocard if you have agp slot thne i have both a nvidia bfg 256 mb and a ati catalyst 256mb cards but a video card shouldn cost that much unless you got a pci slot or pci express and by the looks of your computer specs i dont think you got a pci slot which is a good thing cuz agp is way cheaperbut ya you could probably buy a 100-160bg harddrive for under 100 dollars definetly ,and whta games you getting?