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Hi! for my birthday im finally getting my own pc. we're not on alienware of voodoo kinda pc budget here. I'm Only Allowed up to £430
But anyway!
I, like a lot of us, Like to game! but i do have a lot of recent games and im worried :'( which of these is better:

the advent T9408:

Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
Clock-Speed 1.8 GHz
Front Side BUS 800MHz
Cache 2 MB
Operating-System Windows Vista Home Premium
RAM Memory 1024 MB
Hard Disk Capacity 320 Gb
Optical Drive 1 Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer Drive
Graphics Memory 128 MB The higher the memory the better quality images you are display
Graphics Description nVidia GeForce 7100GS
Media Card Reader 8-In-1
No of USB connections 6
Network LAN On Board LAN


or the packard bell 2311 :

Processor Type AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
Clock-Speed 2.0GHz
Front Side BUS 2000MHz HT
Cache 1 MB
Operating-System Windows Vista Home Premium
RAM Memory 1024 MB
Hard Disk Capacity 160 Gb
Optical Drive 1 Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer Drive
Graphics Description NVIDIA Geforce 6150 SE
Media Card Reader 8-In-1 No of USB connections 6 No of PCI Slots 2
Network LAN On Board LAN


I really need a reply in a few days...

thank you

Im not trying to rain on your parade, please dont take it that way. You have a really tough choice between the two machines but i will point out my thoughts on both just to give you an idea of what your up against.

Neither of these machines have enough memory to run Windows Vista without being very sluggish. With a gig of ram, Vista will occupy half of it just at idle. If you choose either of these machines you will find yourself upgrading memory very soon.

You will also have a serious graphic problem right out of the box, neither of these machines will run newer games very well. You should go over the computer specs well to see if either has a 16x PCI-Express slot available as it would give you the option to upgrade your video tremendously. Most of the newer games require at least 256 megs of video so keep that in mind.

The X2 4000 AMD processor is superior to the E4300 core 2 duo by quite a bit.

You can visit our gaming lounge and look at my post about Crysis. My system specs are listed there and i have a really hard time running the game. Its an example of what to expect from future game releases and the demands that will be associated with them.


I hope some of this is useful to you.

are there any pcs you can reccomend for my budget? if theyre on a uk site it'd be awesome

Venney, who is also a moderator here, might come through here and lend a hand, he's on your side of the pond. Im in the US which makes browsing through UK sights slightly difficult. You have a pretty tight budget but i've seen him put some pretty impressive things together.

tommorow, .. few hours actually since its 1am XD anyways, today mum's takin me to this shop where you give em all these specifics and theyll build the pc for yah and the guy was sayin he could put summant together for my gamin for £500. I'll come back tommorow with the stats and let you know how it's goin.