Should I get a new PC for GAMES ?

[dtmpower]

Should I get a new PC ?
I currently have a Shuttle PC with an Athlon 2000 and 768mb of RAM. 250Gb Hard Disk and a reasonable Radeon 9600 Graphics Card. I play a few car sims: LFS, Virtual RC but I was to get more into car andflight sims... should I stick with my current machine ? Stick some more ram in ? It can take upto 2Gb. I dont really want to buy a new graphics card for this one, after all PCI Express is taking over... If I was to buy a new one, I would have about £500 for parts then sell on this pc or make it a tv recorder...

[UncleDave]

Get this PCI Express Barebones Beauty then stick your old hard drive in it etc...
And buy a 512MB PCI-Express Graphics Card from the Bay..

That will be Amazing!

Dave.

[dtmpower]

UncleDave said:

Get this PCI Express Barebones Beauty then stick your old hard drive in it etc... And buy a 512MB PCI-Express Graphics Card from the Bay.. That will be Amazing! Dave.

???/ where is link ?

[xiphias]

IMO, I think you'd need a complete upgrade, I don't any one single part would be acceptable anymore.

[lockstock2sb]

As i said to you yesterday mate its all about the budget... If it was me with a few hundred smackers to play with i'd build a SLI atx case system myself to remain flexible and upgrade when you are flush etc...

Unfortunately shuttle systems weren't designed for gaming really so there is only limited benefit in upgrading what you have. Money would be better spent making do and buying a component every month for a system - like i am doing... That way your wallet isnt raped in one go.

Steve

[d-man]

By all means put the money aside for one component each month, but buying them on a month by month basis wouldn't be the best idea. Hardware prices only ever go down (apart from memory from time to time a few years ago...), so if you buy something now you'd either be able to get it cheaper in 3 months time when you've got a whole system to put it in, or get something faster for the same money.

I'm beginning to feel the need to upgrade again now, my PC has done pretty well for the last 2 and a half years but its starting to show its age in GTL. Best get saving

[UncleDave]

Sorry!! The link was
www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BB-X2DS

Strange.. can't believe I forgot it.

Dave.