Thinking of acquiring a PC

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Well after many, many years of using my trusty A1200 (since the 1990s) I believe it may be time to obtain something more powerful (and it won't be around forever, I'm surprised it's lasted this long).

I'm not looking for anything much more powerful than 1ghz with around a 20gig harddrive. I don't require it to have internet or DVD and a direct3D 32-64mb graphics card. Can anyone give an indication of the sort of prices I could expect to pay.

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KD7HTH wrote:
Good for you, but wrong forum.

Oops  :oops:

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My uses are probably going to be typing scripts, perhaps some graphics work (doing composite images, simple 3D renders, I already have programs for this and they ran well on my dad's  800mhz AMD Duron.) As for games the ones i play tend to be a few years old such as Deus Ex and Medieval TW.

I'll check out Dell and HP, thanks for the advice.

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Can anyone reccomend a good value graphics card. The most graphically taxing software I have is probably something like hitman 2. My dad's PC uses an ATI Rage fury Pro and that seems to run my stuff quite well.

Thanks to everyone for your advice.

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@ lou_dias

I'm from England, south Lincolnshire to be more precise.

@ Everyone
I've won a mother board on ebay, it has AGP8, FSB 400mhz for £23.

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Socket a and it takes DDR400, I don't think it's top of the range but for £23 i'm not complaining.

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I've heard that some of the cheaper cases have rather thin metal that can bend. Can anyone reccomend a good case?