The £300-£1250 Tower, Full & HTPC System Weekly Builds Thread

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:38

A refinement of the other build thread.

Spec items and price Valid as of 28th January 2009

Now i will have these builds:

TOWER:
£300

£500

£750

£1000

£1250

FULL:
£750

£1000

£1250

HTPC:
£400

£700

£1000

I will update each of these after every week on a Wednesday, after the This week Deals are up

Hopefully this will help a lot of people, and in turn lead to less spec me threads.

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:39

Tower £300

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:39

Tower £500

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:39

Tower: £750

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:40

Tower: £1000

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:40

Tower £1250

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:42

Full System £750

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:42

Full System £1000

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:46

Full System £1250

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:47

HTPC £400

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:48

HTPC £700

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:48

HTPC £1000

wolvers · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:54

Good stuff mate. Really good of you to take the time.

I'm pretty sure you can build a HTPC for less than £600 though seen as onboard gpu's are good enough for one of these?

Ben M · 7 Jun 2008 at 17:21

shaffaaf27 said:
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personally I'd go with 2x 500GB f1s for the HDD

And maybe a TRUE?
Definately don't bother with the LED tt though :eek:

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 17:44

but the LED is the same price as the normal one, atm. why not

and the price wont let me have 2x500GB F1s.

i need help on the £1250 tower though, dont think i have it right.

Ben M · 7 Jun 2008 at 17:46

shaffaaf27 said:
but the LED is the same price as the normal one, atm. why not

and the price wont let me have 2x500GB F1s.

i need help on the £1250 tower though, dont think i have it right.

Oh, hadnt realised, guess you may as well.

You'd be £10 over. I'd go with one F1 if you don't want to go over, they're great drives.

What've you got so far for the £1250? - i should look with my eyes no? will look over that spec now.

Hmm

I'd change it to a 790i board, with 4gb DDR3 RAM (8gb is a waste fo time atm, let's be honest)

Unless you need the space I'd raid) two 500gb F1 drives

other than that I can't see an issue.

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 18:03

raid 0 or raid 1 as raid0 will give you 1TB.

and what speed DDR3, 1600 or 1333?

plus i have read around everywhere

intel chipsets>>>>>>nvidia.

Ben M · 7 Jun 2008 at 18:25

shaffaaf27 said:
raid 0 or raid 1 as raid0 will give you 1TB.

and what speed DDR3, 1600 or 1333?

plus i have read around everywhere

intel chipsets>>>>>>nvidia.

well it's their decision, whether they want space or performance with the raid.

Whichever RAM will fit in the budget.

Intel are better, but I said 790i because of the sli support I guess it does depend on what the individual wants.

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 18:36

aye thats true. from next weeks this week only, every two weeks i will update the specs.

and all the F1TBs ill change to two 500GBF1s as it will save about a tenner

shaffaaf27 · 7 Jun 2008 at 21:10

right, all put up.

any amendments need to be made?