Pc gaming geeks needed!

JamesK10

Ebuyer are as good as their courier, UPS. As they're crap in my area and regularly make us the last stop of the working day I had to stop shopping there - with regret, as they were a good firm.

Get a name of power supply out of them, and perhaps ask if there's any extra charge for that 1yr's warranty to become on-site?

The hard drive is not rubbish, but the history on it is, Samsung sold thousands of that drive cheap in 2010 then sold their hard drive division to Seagate in April 11 - it was just a fattening-up exercise. To this day there's been no communication about the warranty status on the outstanding drives and there were a couple of posts on MSE about people buying Samsung HDDs at retail from Maplin and they were trying to fob them off if the drive went wrong.

So if you want to avoid all that, Go with Western Digital, the Caviar Blue range is the "normal" middle range. Green is cheap but a bit slow, while Black is the performance line. Parent company Seagate themselves are also good value but sometimes run a little hotter.

Oh and I also vote ditch the SSD, even though HDD pricing might be a pain at the moment SSDs are still OTT. If you wanted fast solid state storage then USB Key drives are a much cheaper way to get that.

montsie

JamesK10 wrote: »

Ebuyer are as good as their courier, UPS. As they're crap in my area and regularly make us the last stop of the working day I had to stop shopping there - with regret, as they were a good firm.

Get a name of power supply out of them, and perhaps ask if there's any extra charge for that 1yr's warranty to become on-site?

The hard drive is not rubbish, but the history on it is, Samsung sold thousands of that drive cheap in 2010 then sold their hard drive division to Seagate in April 11 - it was just a fattening-up exercise. To this day there's been no communication about the warranty status on the outstanding drives and there were a couple of posts on MSE about people buying Samsung HDDs at retail from Maplin and they were trying to fob them off if the drive went wrong.

So if you want to avoid all that, Go with Western Digital, the Caviar Blue range is the "normal" middle range. Green is cheap but a bit slow, while Black is the performance line. Parent company Seagate themselves are also good value but sometimes run a little hotter.

Oh and I also vote ditch the SSD, even though HDD pricing might be a pain at the moment SSDs are still OTT. If you wanted fast solid state storage then USB Key drives are a much cheaper way to get that.

So I should ditch the SSD and just have the one hard drive?

JamesK10

In my personal opinion yes - I won't have one for the next two builds because by then (8 years) they'll be standard or at least you'll get a better capacity for the price.

It's your PC though, if you know deep down you want to shell out once and never add any upgrades yourself before the next machine, then keep it in.

I would have said the same about the Blu-Ray combo drive compared to just a DVD Writer, but since you never know when PC games will graduate to Blu Ray then you might as well keep that in there and then it doesn't matter.

Idiophreak

JamesK10 wrote: »

Oh and I also vote ditch the SSD, even though HDD pricing might be a pain at the moment SSDs are still OTT. If you wanted fast solid state storage then USB Key drives are a much cheaper way to get that.

But if you want to boot windows quickly, SSD will help, won't it?...and I wouldn't spend £1500 on a machine then install my operating system on a pen drive...

readingmum

At least they came here to ask what they should get instead of asking at PC world

m5rcc

Intel Core i7 3930K 3.2Ghz
Corsair H80 Water Cooler
Gigabyte X79-UD3
16GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (4x 4GB)
500GB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s
AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
Corsair Carbide 500R White

£1,380

m5rcc

Idiophreak wrote: »

But if you want to boot windows quickly, SSD will help, won't it?...and I wouldn't spend £1500 on a machine then install my operating system on a pen drive...

Why not? Some companies will only install OS with crapware on it.

Idiophreak

m5rcc wrote: »

Why not? Some companies will only install OS with crapware on it.

I've had a bunch of pendrives stuff themselves up after a few months and I just think I'd feel happier having the OS on a proper medium, whether that be HDD or SSD...

wapow

m5rcc wrote: »

Intel Core i7 3930K 3.2Ghz
Corsair H80 Water Cooler
Gigabyte X79-UD3
16GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (4x 4GB)
500GB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s
AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
Corsair Carbide 500R White

£1,380

Thats a very poor build for the money to be honest.

OP -

1) Do you want us to max out the build at just under £1500?
2) Dont buy at Overclockers theyre a rip off compared to SCAN.CO.UK
b)How much gaming will you do after Skyrim and Witcher 2?

3) I would suggest you take a look at the TODAY ONLY sections of SCAN because they have some good good bundles at very reasonable prices which you wont find elsewhere!

Seriously, have a look at that section. Answer the questions above and i will look for you and make you a great build.

They were selling a Corsair Hydro 100 Series for £68 All inc like 4 days ago!
If only i had the goddamn moolahs!

m5rcc

Idiophreak wrote: »

I've had a bunch of pendrives stuff themselves up after a few months and I just think I'd feel happier having the OS on a proper medium, whether that be HDD or SSD...

Then I misread the initial point. There's no problem installing FROM a pen drive. Running it ON a pen drive is a different matter all together.