Got a Bargin PC: Now what to do!

[Harrison]

That could definitely be the issue. At least a 500W PSU for your AMD3700+ is really what you need.

And a 300W PSU in a PD system is way too small as those chips are quite power hungry. Manufacturers always cut costs on the PSU and put one in that just delivers enough power for the prebuild system.

[StuKeith]

That could definitely be the issue. At least a 500W PSU for your AMD3700+ is really what you need.

And a 300W PSU in a PD system is way too small as those chips are quite power hungry. Manufacturers always cut costs on the PSU and put one in that just delivers enough power for the prebuild system.

Yea, plus I added an extra hard drive, sound blaster audigy plat pro, its got a ide card reader and a host of USB devices coming from it!

Ill get a bigger PSU from ebuyer with 2 gig of ram! should see change from £60 at the ram prices atm lol.

[StuKeith]

Sold my old mobo/mem/cpu/gfx for £90 to my mate and now have a nice 550w silent PSU with a 120mm neon fan lol, 8600GT 512mb GFX and 2gig matched Kingston RAM!

She flies like a beauty now. Crysis is nice at med settings, and COD 4 is ok with a few dropped frames at 1280x1024 HL2 is great on MAX with 2xAA and the computer is soo smoth.

Also for good measure brought another 120mm fan and bodged it in as the case wouldnt fit it, and moved the smaller to the front of the case!

Took the PCW RAM back and got a refund on that too!

[Submeg]

Lucky lucky!

[Harrison]

Sounds like a nice setup now and should definitely be more stable too. You can now enjoy some PC gaming again.