New pc to christmas

[Wang]

 So im getting a new pc before christmas, and here are the specs.
MOST LIKELY!

Processor
Intel Core™ 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz, Socket LGA775, 6MB, 1333Mhz BOXED w/fan

Motherboard
Asus P5Q PRO, P45, Socket-775, DDR2, ATX, GbLAN, Firewire, 2xPCI-Ex(2.0)16

Ram
Corsair TWIN2X PC6400C5DHX DDR2 4GB KIT Kit w/2x 2GB XMS2-6400 dimm's, CL5-5-5-18, 800MHz, DHX

HDD
Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA2 32MB 7200RPM

Graphics Card
XFX GeForce GTS 250 1GB PhysX CUDA PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI, Graphics Plus, 738/2200Mhz

Keyboard
G15 or G19

Mouse
G5

OS
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Say what you are thinking , and if i should take some other parts. 

[Killzone]

OS
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

I should change this one, Vista sucks.


Take XP (or 7 if you really want to).

[Foozy]

I should change this one, Vista sucks.

Stop saying that, Vista is fine. Not great but fine. And in October Seven will be released, so you might want to get that.
Also, unless you're playing with a res of >1680x1050, 512MB VRAM will do just as good as 1GB.

Just a note: By Christmas you'll probably want other parts, because those will be "old" by then. I never plan which parts to buy more than a month in advance, because there will be new and better ones out by the time you're going to buy it.

Are you building it yourself?

[Demon_Hunter]

You need 1 gb if you want to play newer game on max >.>

[Killzone]

The more the better . I'd recommend 1 GB to, especially for games with big texture files.

[Foozy]

Stop speaking out of your beard, both of you.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14230/3
More isn't always better, you'll only be wasting your money. That might be an old test, but games are not yet utilizing all 1GB of VRAM to gain any major benefits from it over 512MB.

I'd say, buy a 512MB version and overclock it. Then you'll be set. If you know how to overclock that is.
Otherwise you might want to consider how long you are planning to use that computer without upgrading. If it's for a long time you'll want the 1GB version. Also consider what games you'll be playing. Will they need good performance to run smoothly?

Good luck on this. 

[Wang]

Are you building it yourself?

Yes, in norway it's a website called ''komplett.no''

There you pick the parts self and they build it and send it to you!

It's a pretty good website, and the pc's price was about 8500 NOK = 941 Euros.

So it's a very well price for it.

[Bizzie]

Sorry for bumping this a bit, I'll forgive myself for doing that.

Ram
Corsair TWIN2X PC6400C5DHX DDR2 4GB KIT Kit w/2x 2GB XMS2-6400 dimm's, CL5-5-5-18, 800MHz, DHX

OS
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Say what you are thinking , and if i should take some other parts. 

As some people already suggested, you might want to take a look at Windows 7. However, if you're going to get 4 gigabytes of RAM, you're better off with a 64-bit version - 32-bit operating systems can only utilize 3,2 - 3,3 GB due to limits in memory allocation.

Besides that the package looks quite good. In fact it's quite similar to mine.

[Wang]

As some people already suggested, you might want to take a look at Windows 7. However, if you're going to get 4 gigabytes of RAM, you're better off with a 64-bit version - 32-bit operating systems can only utilize 3,2 - 3,3 GB due to limits in memory allocation.

Besides that the package looks quite good. In fact it's quite similar to mine.

hmm, 64bit ya i've thought of that.
and im gonna go for 7 instead of vista. vista is s**tty.

[Nimrod]

As some people already suggested, you might want to take a look at Windows 7. However, if you're going to get 4 gigabytes of RAM, you're better off with a 64-bit version - 32-bit operating systems can only utilize 3,2 - 3,3 GB due to limits in memory allocation.

Besides that the package looks quite good. In fact it's quite similar to mine.

hmm, 64bit ya i've thought of that.
and im gonna go for 7 instead of vista. vista is s**tty.

Vista on good hardware is actually quite decent, don't listen to the apple fanboys...

If you do go for vista you should be able to get a free upgrade to windows 7 when it is released in october.

[Wang]

hmm, but im gonna buy it after october.

[Nimrod]

hmm, but im gonna buy it after october.

Leaving it a little late aren't we...

[Demon_Hunter]

If you do go for vista you should be able to get a free upgrade to windows 7 when it is released in october.

they actually take money for upgrading xP

[Nimrod]

If you do go for vista you should be able to get a free upgrade to windows 7 when it is released in october.

they actually take money for upgrading xP

No.... new customers are allowed a free upgrade to any new microsoft product, as long as its within a few months of release, its been like that ever since XP. Also there is no upgrade version in the EU which is what I think you were thinking of.

[brim4brim]

If you do go for vista you should be able to get a free upgrade to windows 7 when it is released in october.

they actually take money for upgrading xP

No.... new customers are allowed a free upgrade to any new microsoft product, as long as its within a few months of release, its been like that ever since XP. Also there is no upgrade version in the EU which is what I think you were thinking of.

Yeah this is true as far as I know.

I have Vista

I have the beta of 7 too.  It is a large improvement over Vista.  I prefer it to XP too.  Works faster than XP and Vista although it has had some driver issues for me in beta.

I prefer the way the task bar works in it too.  Overall its the windows we should have got when Vista was released.

I don't like Vista but I can live with it.  I have Kubuntu installed too and personally I think it is better than Vista.  Less hassle and just works.  I think 7 is ahead of Ubuntu again because of the taskbar but I still don't like the 30 different menus just to change my screen resolution