Gaming PC advice

[Steve Greenwood]

I've just about had enough of F1 2011 and don't hold out much hope for 2012 to be a massive improvement so have decided to take the plunge and switch over to the PC platform from my PS3. I have no knowledge of computers and I'm asking for advice on what I should be looking for?
I want a PC to play Race07 and rfactor etc and the PC will not be used for anything other than racing sims.
I have a budget of around £500, suggestions, advice and tips appreciated?

 

[Dave Stephenson]

On a side-note: nVidia is supposed to announce a new graphics chip during GamesCom, so if you wait a few weeks you might be able to grab a faster chip for the same price or an existing one for cheap.

they already reduced the 570s to move on the stock as the card they announce will be the long awaited 660.

 

[Kevin Cordice]

Hi all,

Sorry is I veered of your discussion a bit, I would like to know if I can run some of the latest games with this configuration setup on max settings. 8gb of ddr2 800, Core 2 Quad 2.5, HD6870, evga 750i.

Please let me know what you think

 

[Jim Cole]

Your CPU will be a bottleneck for some games as it is only running at 2.5Ghz per core. Your ram might do ok, but it may be a bit slow as well but your graphics card should do ok for most games as long as you aren't pushing onto triple screens.

 

[Kevin Cordice]

Your CPU will be a bottleneck for some games as it is only running at 2.5Ghz per core. Your ram might do ok, but it may be a bit slow as well but your graphics card should do ok for most games as long as you aren't pushing onto triple screens.

Thanks Jim, Looking to build a new system but when the funding comes in

 

[Dietmar]

There was earlier in this thread a discussion, whether it is (il)leagal to reuse OEM software.

Quite interesting, MS just lost a law case in Germany against a company who is dealing with used OEM software and they were told they must not repeat the phrases, that it is illeagel to instal OEM software on another computer:

(German arcticle)
http://www.heise.de/resale/meldung/...ilige-Verfuegung-gegen-Microsoft-1674046.html

 

[Tom]

There was earlier in this thread a discussion, whether it is (il)leagal to reuse OEM software.

Quite interesting, MS just lost a law case in Germany against a company who is dealing with used OEM software and they were told they must not repeat the phrases, that it is illeagel to instal OEM software on another computer:

(German arcticle)
http://www.heise.de/resale/meldung/...ilige-Verfuegung-gegen-Microsoft-1674046.html

Yep, that's pretty cool. Also, just looked at where the company that sued them is located (because Allgäu is the region in Bavaria I'm from): 30km drive from my hometown!