Monies dilemma

Post by **Joose** » February 14th, 2006, 23:44

ok, so ive got about £150 sat in paypal, earning interest for fat americans, and ive decided to rectify this with some eBaying.

The dilemma is this: I could, just about, get a psp and maybe a game or two for that many monies. However, my ailing computer is in need of help.

at the moment im running an Athlon 2500+, with a gig of ram and a 9800pro. Is it worth spending 150 on, or shall I wait till i have more disposable monies (in a few months) and just get a whole new computer?

If an upgrade, what?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 14th, 2006, 23:48

how fast is the ram? (it could have implications on what upgrading to do)

cashy · Post by **cashy** » February 15th, 2006, 0:04

pretty much the same setup and spending amount that ive been thinking about, came close to getting one of these http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=97827 to keep me going till i start earning minimum wage
looks good value for moneys from some reviews i checked out, but to be quite frank i r teh noob anyway when it comes to things like this

Post by **Joose** » February 15th, 2006, 9:40

the memory is 2x512meg blocks of PC2700 DDR-SDRAM, and the motherboard is an MSI K7N2. I think.

Post by **FatherJack** » February 15th, 2006, 10:00

As far as the PSP goes, how long would you actually spend playing it? I recently calculated that approximately 0% of my average week was I in a position to operate a handheld games console, as I drive everywhere I go and er.. do stuff when I get there.

Post by **Joose** » February 15th, 2006, 10:38

FatherJack wrote:As far as the PSP goes, how long would you actually spend playing it? I recently calculated that approximately 0% of my average week was I in a position to operate a handheld games console, as I drive everywhere I go and er.. do stuff when I get there.

I'm currently unemployed. I've got all the time in the world.

White · Post by **White** » February 16th, 2006, 19:54

in my opinion you should upgrade to 64bit cpu. My AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and Gigabyte K8-MF mobo cost me 130 quid from ebuyer

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 16th, 2006, 19:56

really comes down to current spec.

there's no need to go x64 if you have a crappy AGP card (and you'll be wasting money on an agp mobo)

however, 7800GSs will add a lot of life to an older but still alive machine.