right guys, your mission - should you chose to accept is this. my old boss who i'm good mates with wants a new rig, i did quote him a while ago but things changed and his arm is now covered in a mecano kit. now haven't had time today to look it over as i'm pc-less as i'm cleaning/rebuilding mine and can't be arsed to trawl the pages with my sgs.....take way to long .
so need to spec him a new one up. primarily it will be used for working purposes when he isn't in the office. so will be using stuff like mitsubishi's gx/iec developer for software programming (which also runs like a virtual plc so lots of mem maybe), lots of cad work - albeit 2d electrical schematics and layouts. also does a bit of video editing and some gaming.
cpu preference is intel and the way the land lays at this moment in time i don't see that changing, and the land of gpu's is for team green and he wants to stay with - he mentioned the 580 word on the phone to me the other day so thats the start point for the gpu. memory wise i think plenty of as when using developer (i have experience using it) it's amazing how many windows and other bits you have open just for it, so a start of 8gb is probably wise. other than that spec what you will.
the budget is about £1500-£1600, one stipulation he has (and i don't know for the love of nothing holy why) is that he wants a 3d kit - monitor & glasses. and some degree of making it last for a while and have (in his words not mine) poooooooooooooooooooooooooower
so basic requirements are
cpu - i7 of some flavour
cooling - air or an aio..............but not a cool-it
mobo - to suit, not all bells and no whistles
gpu - well gtx580 is a start, somehow don't think sli is need or in budget
mem - min 8gb, but as i say - never have to much, always to little
storage - spec for a 64/128 ssd with 1tb or 2tb drives, need to clarify as not mentioned ssd to me.
psu - ss/be quiet/seasonic, something along those lines but mut be capable of handling 580 sli - as i can't guarantee he won't do something silly like do it
drives - not interested in blu-ray, so just a good solid dvd burner will do
case - currently has a thermaltake armour, but wants something a bit smaller/better/friendly. so a good quality midi tower with some hdd expansion.
also 24" or bigger monitor for use with nvida 3d kit .....which is also needed.
i know it's gonna be hard with the budget, but see what you can come up with - i'm sure i could get him to stretch the money a bit if needed/worth it.
not had time to sort today, but if harry has me up tonight i have a butchers at 2-3am while i'm trying to get him off to sleep................staring at my screen looking at components often makes me wanna go to sleep to


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