I'm planning on buying a new computer, with vista home premium (cause my dad pays vista) Budget: 500 euro's max... Needed spec: Good graphic card, around 2.2Ghz Prefer Athlon64 X2 100gb hard disk 2gb memory
I'd say you would want to custom build your computer like I did? It's a lot cheaper than prebuilt ones. You wouldn't actually be able to buy a prebuilt computer with your needed specs for $500, you'd need probably at least $1000, here anyway. Read this thread for a bit of info. https://www.romulation.org/forum/index.php/topic,8462.0.html. Also, since you want it anyway, get a AMD, maybe a Sempron or Athlon (AMD good for overclocking) or get an Intel if you want to be on the safe side. Also, RAM is quite cheap too, we picked up a 2GB Kingston ramstick for about $30 from a NZ internet store, with heat syncing (blue etc. cover that goes on the RAM to prevent it from burning), also it helps a lot with installing the RAM, I fuc*ing hate putting in a RAM with no cover, as my Foxconn motherboard is extremely tight, could barely fit in the case with the PSU, and it takes a lot of energy and strength to bloody put the thing in there and place the locks on. I wonder if you could settle for a 80GB hard disk or something, if not, get whatever size you want, Seagate and Western Digital are good, you can go for SATA or IDE, I forgot which one of those is a thin hard disk, so you save space. And I completely forgot what SLI is. I'm not too sure about a graphics card, I didn't need a good one, so it came with the motherboard, Via Chrome or something.
I found one who is very cheap and good (in my opinion) a HP/Compaq SR5411 found it on pcsnel.nl (dutch site) for 309 euro Maybe this one is good?
intels do not perform as well as AMDs in my experience, and they cost more. SLI is when you have 2 nvidia graphics cards working together, you won't get SLI for your budget. Hard disks are pretty cheap nowadays, so that shouldn't be a problem, and whatever you do, AVOID onboard graphics; they slow down the machine and can't run games.
