Desktop PCs: Your thoughts on a couple!

nomoneytoday

If something goes wrong with 3 suppliers that could be fun.
I bought a pc from cube. It cost £20 more than be building it, and gives me some piece of mind if anything goes wrong
(no connection etc)

jweb2k

I'm quite a tech, so it's not too bad working out what's wrong with it. I found cube's spec of the above cost around £1000, and they didn't answer an e-mail I sent, so will be going it alone in first week of sept

pault123

jweb2k wrote: »

Just a quick update on this one, the guys over at bit-tech have been working hard scouting the net, and looks like a self-build will be better. Here's the specs we jointly came up with:



Hope that helps anyone tracking this topic!

I7 920 cheaper here @ £195.44

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/Intel+Core+i7-920+Socket+1366+CPU+D0+Stepping+(SLBEJ)+?productId=35938



Memory cheaper and possibly faster (1600 I think youve linked 1333) here


http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR3/DDR3+1600+(PC3-12800)/OCZ+6GB+PC3-12800+DDR3+1600Mhz+Platinum+Triple+Channel+(3x2GB)?productId=34482


Harddrive cheaper here £45.91

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/1TB+Samsung+Spinpoint+F1+SATA2+7200RPM+32MB+cache+?productId=30998


Coolermaster Storm Scout better case imho £80.24

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Cases/MIDI+Tower/Cooler+Master+Storm+Scout+Gaming+Case+SGC-2000-KKN1?productId=36092


For the extra few quid i'd also go OCZ on the PSU and get 700w

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/500w+%2B/OCZ+700W+StealthXStream+Power+Supply+PSU+?productId=34271

jweb2k

Thanks very much for the links!!

davester

Doesn't say which version of Vista Home Premium. It would have to be the 64bit version or all your Ram over 4 GB is uselessly wasted. Which you might find your 32bit software you have already wont run, Not that the 32 bit version of vista means it would run either.

pault123

32 bit is more like 2.5gb to 3gb of ram will be used (take away from that GFX card memory too so with a 512/1gb gfx card - memory really takes a hit)

64 bit all the way