£5k and £1k new build thoughts please???

[Trash Man]

Will the 2x GTX280 power 3 monitors at 19inch ?

Easily, yes.

[NovaSphere]

Will the 2x GTX280 power 3 monitors at 19inch

Ya it will, a single GTX280 can power a 24" with ease. 19" won't be a problem.

Thanks for the advice... I'll look into nehalem, is this going to wipe the floor with todays tech ?

It probably will, today's CPU's etc aren't bad at all.
Nehalem is just the newest of the newest, better than the best. (expected, nothing can be 100% sure) but if you really wish to spend 5k on gaming rig, wait for Nehalem, it's your best bet.

I will be more than happy to help you through a specification for a PC.

please feel free to contact me via PM

Should talk to this guy actually, scan knows a lot about PC's and are very customer orientated.

[nerdgeek]

Thank you for your help... I've got in touch with Scan..

[circuitmonkey]

Here's what I'd spend 5k on given your requests;



with possibly the inclusion of a 1TB e-sata drive to take to your Mom's.

[SiM]

Why not spend £1k on a PC, £1k on a big screen and £3k on a sound system?

[SiM]

Look at this:
http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemId=827

[Fraz]

Look at this:
http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemId=827

For that money, does it actually come with a great white shark?

[AdamAnubis]

For that money, does it actually come with a great white shark?

Or atleast a free mug.

I'd wait until christmas. Bank the money, gain some interest, and wait for more (intels) SSD's to be released, along with the X58, and for intel to release most of their high end i7's, and for DDR3 to become more mainstream. For that kind of money, you might aswell wait for a x58 skulltrail and wack a few i7 Xeon equivalents on

[PeterStoba]

I'll build you a computer for £5000, PM me for a quote

[Fraz]

I'll build you a computer for £5000, PM me for a quote

Now, I'm guessing, but will your quote be somewhere around the £5000 mark?

[SiM]

I'll build you a computer for £5000, PM me for a quote

Let me guess the price you quote will be £4999.99 and you will give him a celeron
Edit: d'oh beaten

[Clunk]

Just a quick thought.

If you spend 5 grand on a PC now, within a month it will have halved in value, within 2 months it will have been superseded by something twice as fast and within 3 months, it will probably be worth less than a grand second hand.

I recommend buying your dad a tent.

[staffsMike]

Can't really be bothered to read through that mess. I'm sure it's probably been said already though that you will be hard pressed even at fairly high resolutions 1920 x 1200 etc.. to notice a difference between your 5K PC and your 1K PC, self built anyway.

The money would be better off served in an PC pot if you like, £1000 - £1500 now.. then upgrade or sell on and start again etc...

During that time the money will earn interest.. assuming your bank doesn't running off screaming down the road.. which will pay for some of the upgrades anyway.

If you really want a 5K PC though and there just isn't any help for it. Then skull trail 2 3.0GHz Quads, SLi 280GTX's, 8GB of RAM, hardware raid, 5TB array etc.. should see you along nicely

[PeterStoba]

Nope, I wouldn't do that, I charge a flat rate of £35 for building, overclocking, cable management and operating system sorting and speeding up...

[Stoo]

Okay, cleanup time.

[directhex]

plus, also covered in http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ld-5000-a.html which i won epic style