Another person looking for Scan advice.

[LewisJ]

Hello all!

I am currently looking to buy a new desktop computer as my old laptop isn't cutting it anymore. I read a trusted review on the Scan 3XS GTX which I was pretty impressed with, but I have a few questions to ask if someone is willing to help? I know very little about computers in general really.

I am hoping to order a Scan 3XS GTX for gaming mostly (A few FPS's, Flight Sims and the Total War series to name a few), aswell as general internet use, and was wondering what everyone thinks of this configuration below? I don't have as much money to spend as some of the other threads I have seen on here, but I do have £1250 to blow on my credit card to "help the economy" (well, that is my excuse anyway). I do plan on buying upgrades for it such as extra cooling fans and Blu Ray etc in the near future when I have some more money to spend.

Custom Coloured Cases: *No Custom Colour Required*
Case: Antec 900 - Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 GHz 1333MHz FSB 6MB Cache
CPU Coolers: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Overclocking: *No System Overclocking*
Memory: 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 Dominator - PC2-8500 (1066) - CAS 5
NVIDIA Graphics: 896MB XFX GTX 260 Black 666MHz GPU 216 Cores 2300GHz GDDR3
ATI Graphics : *No ATI VGA Card Required* (NVIDIA Required)
Power Supply Unit: 620W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU
System Drives: 500 GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 7200 rpm 16MB Cache
Storage Hard drives: *Storage Hard Drive Not Required*
Floppy Drive Flash Card Readers & Writers: Akasa Multi Memory Card Reader & USB 2.0 Port
DVD Writer: Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±R 12x DVD±DL DVD+RW x8 -RW x6 SATA Black
Blu Ray Reader Writer: *Blu Ray Not Required*
Sound Card: *Sound Card Not Required Use On Board Sound*
Internal External (USB) Wireless Adaptors: *Wireless Adaptor Not Required*
TV Tuner Card: *TV Tuner Card Not Required*
Gaming Network Card: *On Board Network Card Only*
Cooling Fans: *No After Market Fans Required - Use Fans Included with Case*
Acoustic Sound Proofing: *Sound Proofing Not Required*
Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64Bit
Software - Application: MS OFFICE 2007 - 25 Usage 60 Day TRIAL Basic SBE & Professional
Software - DVD Blu Ray Decoding: CyberLink PowerDVD 8 Standard Movie Audio Player & Decoder

Any thoughts or comments are appreciated. Thank you!

Ps. What are the costs of delivery as I can not find anything on the Scan website that outlines this sort of thing?

[Philipp]

Hi Lewis,

Great to hear your thinking of ordering a 3XS system...

Yup the Performance GTX machine got a good review... Ill have a look over your spec in more detail on Monday and post back.

Delivery to mainland UK is about £20ish, however if you stick around on the HEXUS forum you can qualify for free shipping

Cheerios

[LewisJ]

Hi Philipp.

Thanks for the response, I will look forward to hearing back from you on Monday-ish. I am just really looking to see if I am getting the most bang for my buck.

£20 sounds more than reasonable so I would be more than happy to pay that.

[PeterStoba]

How much does that cost, In parts it costs £880 including software, I'd assume it's going to cost a bit more as it's a 3XS.

Are you looking to spend your full budget or is that absoloute maximum? What resolution will you be gaming at or don't you have a monitor yet? This will influence your graphics card requirements.

Nearly £900 for a pc of that spec shocks me for some reason

[LewisJ]

The price including VAT is
£1,194.39 (which includes a keyboard), I am looking to spend all of my budget but not a penny more, so yes £1250 is the maximum but I am happy to spend all of it.

Monitor wise I have a "Samsung T220HD 22-inch Widescreen LCD TFT Monitor".

[Philipp]

Hi Lewis,

I am just working on a new system spec that may be of interest to you, it’s going to be based around a heavily over clocked dual core CPU with aggressive pricing.

I should have the spec and a test system sorted by the end of the week, It should give a much better price/performance than the system your currently looking at....

Ill update as soon as possible

Best Regards

[LewisJ]

Hi Philipp,

Any update on that new system spec?

[Philipp]

Hi Lewis,

The finer details are yet to be confirmed however its looking like a Intel P43 chipset with a 3.75Ghz dual core CPU (over clocked).

I am hoping to hit the £799ish mark with a GTX 260....

More when I have it