the only change i would make mate are swap the Msi 5870 for one by Asus you get a longer warrenty and they are a bit more reliable. as for Hdd's i wouls go for a 60Gb Corsair SSD for the boot and any of the Seagate drives for storage as they are some of the most reliable on the market. thats the set...

sorry Doggy but i have to agree with gav here, at the moment ATI make the best GPU's, i was a Nvidia man all the way till i had to change my GPU in order to get the latest games to run on this old rig, and i was on a £150 budget also. after a bit of reserch i found the best card on the market for £1...

Exib has now moved on from the donkey p0rn crappy !

i know for a fact that he just spends all his time dowloading gay amputee p0rn now and some of those files are huge hence the cap on him !! i can only recoil in horror at how sweaty it must get in his gimp suit !

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i would agree its your GPU, i had to change mine to get the game to run and i was running a much more powerfull 7950 GTO, i used to get blank screens and when the game did run i got terrible slowdown & framerate.
time for an upgrade chief !

ROFL ! Exib you fuk witt !

i also have the Corsair 650w Modular PSU and never heard it yet, i have two them actually, one in my HTPC in the living room, and one in my pc in my workshop. i also have an OCZ 500w modular PSU in my office pc its good value but you can hear it running. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php...

very good choice mate aa) i have been a great beliver in HP monitors for years, in fact its all i have used in the past 10yrs i have four now on various machines, i use the giant 30" HP LP3065 at home as my main gaming/HTPC and i spoof in my pants every time i switch it on ! just glorious ! :mr...

£500 ok leave it with me and i see what i can come up with for ya !

if you want to make things easy mate just say how much you are willing to spend on a pc and i can spec you the best machine possible for that kind of money if that helps any ?

right i finally managed to get it fixed ! it turns out that some old monitors sometimes throw a spaz when hooked up to modern GPU's and its the refresh rate thats causing it and also steam cloud has something to do with it by automaticly transfering various setings, i had to do the following: 1. set...

no mate its a very old HP f1703 LCD (about 10yr old i think ?)
still cant get it to respond ! bast !!!

Cheers Tried that IXL but its still doing the blank screen thing, its now displaying a small stuttering and jumping about message on my monitor about the native resolution being wrong, which its not ! but the pc seems to be totally locked up and it wont respond to anything other than a very large ha...

i downloaded L4D2 from steam today, and i have struck a major issue, as soon as it starts to load i get a totally blank screen, i hear the game running as i have sound, but the screen is just toatlly blank ! and it wont let me ALT, TAB, or even CTRL, ALT, Delete out of the program the only way to ge...

the PSU will be fine thats the same model as i am running in one of my machines just now but with a 5770 GPU. install the HDD in the case and connect it to the PSU but just dont connect it to the motherboard with the SATA lead untill you have installed W7 on the SSD, then when W7 has installed just ...