Thinking of buying 'Isys Max 8600 Core 2 Duo' Opinion needed

[Legend 69]

Hi all, im very new to the whole buying a PC scene. But i am very into playing computer games and so on. My current computer is about 4 years old and as you can expect doesnt work as well as it used to, and i'd like to be able to play some newer games on it e.g. Oblivion and NFS: Carbon, games that are quite demanding. I have been looking around for a mid-ranged PC thats not to expensive but hopefully can satisfy my gaming needs. I found the 'Isys Max 8600 Core 2 Duo' from the novatech website http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pcrange.html?PC-1055 (The one i want is on the right) which looked good to me, although i hardly know anything about computer hardware which is why i wanted some help from you guys as to whether it can run these games well. Anyway im going to be purchasing it with the Vista Home Premium edition OS.

So anyway, what i wanted to know was will this computer be able to efficiently play relativley demanding games well. And generally run fast. Also if you think there are any better PC's in my price range (Around £500 - £700) that do a much better job please could you tell me about them.

[Atheros]

personally i would recommend anything in the Executer Range or higher. i have the 8800GTS 640mb and this can run oblivion really well at 1600x1200 16xAA 8xAF. shame no hdr coz of the aa but if you prefer the HDR over the AA then just turn AA off and HDR on (Nvidia Limitation). i would also say that this is a quite futureproof system. i generally cycle my pc every 3 years and this is my current system and im only 2 months in. even in 3 years i suppose this machine will still be in the mid-range area.

The 'Isys Max 8600 Core 2 Duo' is still a good machine and i wouldn't want to intentionally put you off of this unit.

[Legend 69]

Just how much of a difference is there between the Executer 6600 and the Executer 6700? Will i notice the change because i dont need the extra 140GB, but how much difference will the better Proccessors and Graphics cards make? Is it worth the extra money?

[mattk]

well the differnce would be slightly noticeable but not too significant. your looking about and extra 10-15 fps say in Half life2.