Another crying for help building a PC thread. Enter please :)

[Squilliam]

starcraft said:

Squilliam said:

1. You can get office from Gocomp as well. http://www.gocomp.com.au/index.php?cpath=productinfo&pid=II00872&catpath=0_28_135

$113

Just bear in mind that they are going to release Office 2010 this year so you may want to wait or make sure that you can upgrade for free.

2. Oh I thought it was terrible given the resolution you were running. In any case its optional, delete away if you don't want it. I figured I would pad out the budget to the full $1800. Also if the resolution you gave is the maximum then drop the graphics card in favour of the 5770 because that would make the GPU overkill http://www.gocomp.com.au/index.php?cpath=productinfo&pid=II06571

3. Complete waste... Its hard enough to get a Phenom II to stretch its legs with console ports + the rise of low power laptop computers. This part represents a good balance for longevity, power consumption and overall platform cost.

New question and updat Squill my man.

I still will not be purchasing a screen through my Dad, but I have decided to get one myself.  If I spent $300 AU (really not too much more) what screens should I be looking at getting and what resolution?  If I get a higher resolution screen, compared to your original specs, should I then be looking at either more RAM, another CPU or a better GPU?

You'd need a better GPU to use it effectively. Programs scale in terms of CPU useage linearly with program intensity. However they scale with both resolution and intensity with GPUs. This means that the performance of the GPU is dictated by both the resolution of the monitor and the intensity of the program. So if you double your resolution you should double your GPU performance to get the same effect. So going from your current one to a 1920/1080 resolution monitor means you need to move from an HD 5770 to an HD 5850 to have roughly the same performance at the native resolution.

As for a monitor, have a look at this one first. http://www.gocomp.com.au/index.php?cpath=productinfo&pid=II06747&catpath=0_19_103

The big drawback is the different stand but its the best bang for buck panel I can see there.