I have finally decided to poney up the cash and replace my aging P4 in the new year. Basically all I can play on it at the moment is WOW but I am really looking forward to some upcoming games such as Starcraft 2 and Warhammer Online as well as new releases such as Hell Gate London as well as games I currently have and haven’t been able to play because of system specs such as Supreme Commander and Warhammer, Mark of Chaos.
I am not after a super high end machine but something that we last me a while, be able to play upcoming/current games with reasonable graphics quality as well as handle everyday stuff like media encodings, web, word etc. I will be duel booting with linux and xp/vista (I think I'm going to need to go vista if I want to be able to play newer games).
I am looking to spend about $2500 AU in total for everything including case, monitor, mouse and keyboard (can be stretched a little further). So far the only thing I have my eye on is a Samsung 22 226BW which I can pick up for around $425 AU. My thoughts at the moment are along the lines of quad core with about 4g of ram, single 512 gfx card and was thinking of a small raid set up (don’t really need mass storage space or performance more after data loss prevention).
This is what I have come up with so far. It comes in at $2501.60 AU (that is assuming I can get everything at the listed price which shouldn't be a problem in the new year)
So what are peoples thoughts on this proposed setup? Is there something I missing or better off getting? Is there something coming out early in the new year that is worth holding out for?
So what is worth looking at and what isn’t. On a side note could my current radeon 9800 SE 128mb be able to power the Samsung 22 226BW if I was to get one before I got the new computer?
