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Aria have been raping everyone on price recently, free delivery or not.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
Once you add delivery the price is around the same as Scan though.
Is that including the "Free Scan Delivery" for the hexus members, as alot of people wont get that option (none hexus users).Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH
Yes. OTH,like you said without the free postage Aria seems to be cheaper for many CPUs and GPUs it seems.
The problem with Aria is that the good prices are web specials only,and you have to have those delivered. If I could buy a web special and collect it I'd be laughing...
Anyway, it means the price looks great initially, but ends up being only reaonable. Their 1055T is only ~ £4 cheaper than ebuyer once delivery has been taken into account. Scan come off looking poor once you add the delivery: £170 - that active hexus membership really pays off in that sense as it makes the delivered price cheaper than Aria...
The question is though do they justify their costs ? Dependant on usage...purhapse, but can anybody tell me something other than folding that would benefit from 6 cores ? (ignoring the cache).
But delivery means another 6-7 quid.
But on the majority of products, they seem to be cheaper and if they're not Gibbo undercuts.
For instance an i5 750 is currently £142 delivered from Aria - £150 w/o delivery at Scan.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
3D rendering and video transcoding are the obvious examples for home users: plus probably some image manipulation software - basically (obviously!) anything that can sensibly be multithreaded. Obviously it's not going to accelerate your word processing or web browsing, but then you shouldn't be looking beyond 2 cores if that's all you use your PC for. Anything that benefits from 4 cores should benefit even more from 6 cores.
The SMP folding client actually used to have problems with more than 4 cores, but I don't know if that was purely down to it running on virtual cores on Intel machines rather than physical cores and how it would cope with 6 physical cores... no doubt we'll hear before too long though!
When I first moved out their way a year ago it was usually only the web specials that were cheaper than other shops, and once you factored in the delivery cost it turned out more expensive for me to get the web special then just collect a normal priced one! Recently they've been getting noticably cheaper on some products. When I built a computer for my mate with a 5770 Aria turned out to be cheaper than scan or ebuyer, and that i5 750 is at a great price (plus that's not a web special so I collect that).
The fact is that a Phenom II X6 1090T and a 770,870,785G or 880G can be had for a similar price as a Core i7 920 and one of the "cheap" X58 motherboards. Many of these reviews(and it seems a certain number of people on forums) don't seem to realise this. For encoding and software which scales well with six cores the Phenom II X6 is the way to go and peak power consumption in many reviews is lower than a Phenom II X4.
It is sad that Turbo Core cannot work on four cores otherwise I would think that the Phenom II X6 would be faster for gaming than a Phenom II X4.
OTH,a Phenom II X4 955BE or Core i5 750 are the way to go for a gaming computer unless you need 16X/16X Crossfire or SLI.
Just wanted to add some compression scales really well over multiple cores too like 7z for example.
So many people on other forums seem to banging on about how cheap the Core i7 920 is without considering flipping expensive the X58 motherboards are!!
I can understand this for a gaming build (although the Core i5 750 or Phenom II X4 955BE are more cost effective for such a use) but they seem to be talking about encoding and rendering!
am really tempted to switch from my intel to one of these cpu's i know there wont be much difference in performance, i've just had my i5 since release day and have the itch.
Aria are raping people on price but scan have got some competitive deals on the cpu/amd 890 motherboards 3 different bundles priced well.
In video encoding and rendering the Phenom II X6 does quite well it seems:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...-review-9.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/a...55t-reviewed/7
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1853&pageID=8962
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...6_1090t/6.html
TBH,if you already have a decent Core i5 based setup then I would stick with it. You could always sell the Core i5 750 and get a Core i7 860 if you need extra performance in video encoding and rendering.
My system is good i just get the itch sometimes and am considering it as my core i5 still has good resale value and the switch would cost me maybe £40-50
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