Here's My New Buils - £878 - Comments please ;)
Hi Guys,
Before I start, I'd like to thank everyone for continued aid with this, especially TAKTAK and Adam from Scan.
I've priced up a system at £878, Any comments please, I'm up for constructive critisism :)
http://www.4freeimagehost.com/resized/5061cec06011.jpg
I would be massivley grateful if you have any essential changes to suggest that either
---- A) Improve Performance without increasing price *too much :P*
or
-----B) Lower price with no loss of performance
Re: Here's My New Buils - £878 - Comments please ;)
looks perfect to me, but i wouldn't get a Blu-ray drive myself... (but thats personal preference)
not my taste in case (i prefer Lian Li's, but they are quite expensive)
prehaps a better keyboard?
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Originally Posted by
TAKTAK
looks perfect to me, but i wouldn't get a Blu-ray drive myself... (but thats personal preference)
not my taste in case (i prefer Lian Li's, but they are quite expensive)
prehaps a better keyboard?
Bluray - I dont have a PS3, and with the graphics card linking up to my 32" TV or my montior it should allow me to watch some pretty sweet HD-ness :) Unless im missing something...
Case - Nor mine tbh, but I wont be looking at it :P It is apparently more practical which is what I need atm :)
Keyboard - Definatley, I used to use a cherry keybaord when I was at the LAN Centres a few years ago and want to consult the old owner about those before I buy one, they felt immensley better than Zboards and i'm not keen on splashing out on a wireless as I dont really like them :( In the meantime however, a cheap and cheerful Logitech should see me through :)
On the topic of keyboard aswell, what does everyone else use if they have one to reccomend?
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Why SP1 disc separately? The vista you have selected comes with SP1 already...
I would look at x38 motherboards now... P35 is very old, it still good, but I would only use it for budget builds...
640gb hard drives only cost a few quid more and are faster...
make sure you check today only and shop offers before you order... (ram is £53.46 on shop offers, there are 2 different 4850s for £115 on today only)
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Be quick on the today only, its going to change any minute now
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Originally Posted by
SiM
I would look at x38 motherboards now... P35 is very old, it still good, but I would only use it for budget builds...
640gb hard drives only cost a few quid more and are faster...
make sure you check today only and shop offers before you order...
Motherboards - I understand the iP35 is old, but is there anything for a similar price that you would reccommend thats better all round and can still handle an overclock?
Hard Drive - I couldn't find a 640GB hard-drive thats faster :| Got a link?
Shop Offers - Cheers for the tips :) Thanks mate ;)
BTW/ I'm not buying immediatley, I'm buying *probably* next friday after I do a car boot sale this week for deposit :) Hehe
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I guess the software that comes with the drive does play back Blu-Ray, but I'd be careful.
You've always needed the "ultra" version of PowerDVD for HD playback. And I believe the latest version 8 of PowerDVD Ultra no longer supports HD-DVD.
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Originally Posted by
richieuk
Hard Drive - I couldn't find a 640GB hard-drive thats faster :| Got a link?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/144339
It was £51 the other day, but its gone up a bit now..
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Rated access times are pretty much always BS, as proven here;
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 review
The Western Digital AAKS range are my drives of choice at the moment, they're speedy yet as good as silent.
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How about this motherboard:
http://www.scan.co.uk/product.aspx?ProductId=21230
To save £20 odd.
I'll be honest i'm not saying it is as good, but it's a choice.
In general though the overall list looks good i'd say, will be a killer system
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I would get the Antec 300 over that case, It's £10 more but the cooling will be a lot better. Otherwise looks very nice.
MSIC's board suggestion isn't a bad idea either, you will still quite easily get to a 3.2 -3.4GHz overclock I'm sure.
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Re: Here's My New Buils - £878 - Comments please ;)
still looks good to me :D
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Knocked off the Icybox, and through todays offers have knocked off over £40 and got Nero and Skype phone free...
I wet myself :)
Ordering as we speak :-)
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Go for the MX-2 thermal paste doesn't require burn in as does AS5 and is a few pence cheaper!
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Yep looks good, I built a near enough identical build earlier in the week :)