Advice on where to buy a PC similar to this...

turbobob

Silverback420 wrote: »

This is what ive got so far

Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz Socket LGA 1156 8MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor - £221.06

ASUS P7P55D PRO iP55 Socket LGA 1156 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard - £135.86

Corsair 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 2000MHz/PC3-16000 Dominator GT i7 Memory Kit with Airflow Fan CL8(8-8-8-24) 1.65V Unbuffered Non-ECC - £280

LG CH08LS10 Super Multi Blu-Ray Reader & DVD±RW with LightScribe SATA Black - Full Retail Box With Software - £86.14

XFX RADEON HD 5870 1GB DDR5 DUAL DVI HDMI DISPLAY PORT PCI-E Graphics Card - £341.20

Acer H243HXBbmidcz 24" Full HD Widescreen 16:9 TFT 2ms 80,000:1 (Dynamoc) DVI / HDMI / VGA Speakers, Webcam + USB Hub - Glossy Black - £200

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM - £63.87

Not sure what case/PSU to go for but is just a rough idea so far. Currently without the case/PSU and whatever i may have forgotten it currently comes to £1340

Seem ok?

What are you using it for and what is your budget? That has some high end gaming orientated parts in it (Radeon 5870 for example @ £341, I've built whole systems for less than that) whereas the first system comes with a load of extras, and a high spec at first glance, but you don't really know what you're getting.

BTW you don't use that overpriced triple channel memory kit with that motherboard and processor. They use dual channel memory. The triple channel kits are for Core i7 9xx systems.

Marty_J

Jnelhams

Oh what a laugh, why buy a mac at ££££££££££££ when you could buy a PC and load Ubuntu for soooooo much less.

Marty_J

Jnelhams wrote: »

Oh what a laugh, why buy a mac at ££££££££££££ when you could buy a PC and load Ubuntu for soooooo much less.

Not wishing to take things off topic, but PCs like that aren't any cheaper (if you can find one). Two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors alone cost more than most PCs.

Also, perhaps the OP would like to use Photoshop, Apple Logic, Final Cut, Microsoft Word, Abode Lightroom, or any of the other countless pieces of industry standard software not available for Linux.

Just a thought.

HO87

Marty_J wrote: »

Also, perhaps the OP would like to use Photoshop, Apple Logic, Final Cut, Microsoft Word, Abode Lightroom, or any of the other countless pieces of industry standard software not available for Linux.

Just a thought.

So what? Why use those hugely expensive and resource-hungry applications when there is Gimp - the latest stable version of which is particularly good - and, with respect well up to PS IMHO and I use the latter at work, Kdenlive, OpenOffice (VG), Picasa etc and if push really comes to shove there's always Wine, VirtualBox or Zen if you just can't separate yourself from Windoze.

Not that I'm knocking Mac's, btw, both sons bought Mac (won't go back), and on each of their profiles on this machine they installed Cairo Dock - so they feel at home.

Marty_J

HO87 wrote: »

So what? Why use those hugely expensive and resource-hungry applications when there is Gimp - the latest stable version of which is particularly good - and, with respect well up to PS IMHO and I use the latter at work, Kdenlive, OpenOffice (VG), Picasa etc and if push really comes to shove there's always Wine, VirtualBox or Zen if you just can't separate yourself from Windoze.

Not that I'm knocking Mac's, btw, both sons bought Mac (won't go back), and on each of their profiles on this machine they installed Cairo Dock - so they feel at home.

I strongly disagree that GIMP is as good as Photoshop, just as Open Office isn't as good as MS Office.

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HO87 wrote: »

So what? Why use those hugely expensive and resource-hungry applications when there is Gimp - the latest stable version of which is particularly good - and, with respect well up to PS IMHO and I use the latter at work, Kdenlive, OpenOffice (VG), Picasa etc and if push really comes to shove there's always Wine, VirtualBox or Zen if you just can't separate yourself from Windoze.

Because they're simply not anywhere near as good?

And it's Windows btw..

Altahost

I build these "High End" PCs all the time. Much ado about nothing really. Big numbers, impressive benching but the basics forgotten. Low latency Ram, accross the bus very important. It's all about throughput.

Why Intel? Why not AMD, they have always handled throughput at the expense of a slight heat increase.

Actually, I would not build an AMD high ender at the moment.

How bout tell me what you want to do with it then I can engineer the damn thing. You know...totally bespoke...my PC....the beast from the east where all the technolgy unifies and moves together

Incidently, Heathrow Airport already has a computer running it...why dya need another?

bazster

Altahost wrote: »

Incidently, Heathrow Airport already has a computer running it...why dya need another?

:rotfl:...............

Silverback420

Why have such a high spec pc?

Its not high-spec in my eyes, compared to what i originally wanted its alot cheaper

Obvioulsy have the wrong motherboard in that list so that will need changing, as for the rest, its pretty min spec for what im going for