Beat this spec!

Meatball · 25 Jul 2010 at 17:39

Hi!!

A colleague at work is in need of a new computer and they've been looking at the following system for £650:

Acer Aspire M5811

So far I can't really beat it:

USB 3 preferably please

stulid · 25 Jul 2010 at 17:48

tri channel memory kits are only for socket 1366 i7 systems.

whats the system used for? that Aspire pc system looks CRAP!!!!

Meatball · 25 Jul 2010 at 17:58

stulid said:
tri channel memory kits are only for socket 1366 i7 systems.

whats the system used for? that Aspire pc system looks CRAP!!!!

Ah, I've been out of system building for 2-3 years so it's all new. The family use it for general tasks (internet, photo editing, word processing) and the dad uses it for casual gaming. They rarely upgrade so they wanted to make sure it's future-proof. The system they have now is 8 years old

. I think the specs fairly good, apart from the 5400rpm hard drive.

Redmint · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:00

OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £152.74
(£129.99) £152.74
(£129.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £129.24
(£109.99) £129.24
(£109.99)
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £84.99
(£72.33) £84.99
(£72.33)
OCZ Reaper Low-Latency 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 12800C6 (1600MHz) Dual-Channel (OCZ3RPR1600C6LV4GK) £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£68.08) £79.99
(£68.08)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £56.99
(£48.50) £56.99
(£48.50)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £31.71
(£26.99) £31.71
(£26.99)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £562.24
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £100.45
Total : £674.44

£660.63 with free delivery, beats the Aspire by miles.

stulid · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:05

Meatball said:
I think the specs fairly good, apart from the 5400rpm hard drive.

apart from the dire GT320 gpu, which is just naff.

and the 6GB memory? which is weird for a dual channel memory controller that the i5/i3 has, which suggests the system builder of that pc doesn't have a clue.

Meatball · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:08

Redmint said:
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £152.74
(£129.99) £152.74
(£129.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £129.24
(£109.99) £129.24
(£109.99)
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £84.99
(£72.33) £84.99
(£72.33)
OCZ Reaper Low-Latency 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 12800C6 (1600MHz) Dual-Channel (OCZ3RPR1600C6LV4GK) £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£68.08) £79.99
(£68.08)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £56.99
(£48.50) £56.99
(£48.50)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £31.71
(£26.99) £31.71
(£26.99)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £562.24
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £100.45
Total : £674.44

£660.63 with free delivery, beats the Aspire by miles.

The problem I'll have is it's half as much storage, 1/3 less ram but costs £10 more. He wont understand it's actually better.

stulid said:
apart from the dire GT320 gpu, which is just naff.

and the 6GB memory? which is weird for a dual channel memory controller that the i5/i3 has, which suggests the system builder of that pc doesn't have a clue.

It's a system made by Acer which is surprising.

Redmint · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:10

Explain the quad core CPU and the graphics card are far better. (and that he doesn't actually need 6GB RAM).

stulid · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:15

Meatball said:
He wont understand it's actually better.

Electro shock therapy will fix that issue.

Meatball · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:21

stulid said:
Electro shock therapy will fix that issue.

and the misses?

stulid · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:24

Meatball said:
and the misses?

A hard slap without the Talcum powder

Redmint · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:32

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £126.89
(£107.99) £126.89
(£107.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£68.08) £79.99
(£68.08)
Club 3D ATI Radeon 4850 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £76.36
(£64.99) £76.36
(£64.99)
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 MA770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £72.99
(£62.12) £72.99
(£62.12)
2x Patriot Viper 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-10666 1333MHz Dual Channel (PVS34G1333ELK) £70.49
(£59.99) £140.98
(£119.98)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £48.49
(£41.27) £48.49
(£41.27)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £534.19
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £95.54
Total : £641.48

Have a stupid spec if you really want lots of memory and HDD space, gimped the graphics card but if it's just 'casual' gaming it doesn't really matter.

stulid · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:37

USB3?

try this one- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-250-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

Mr Krugga · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:43

Tell them it's a faster graphics card, CPU has twice as many cores (double the power!), the HDD spins faster, mobo can take two graphics cards at once, RAM is more than 60% faster and other BS (which is true in fact):

Comes to £649 with free delivery.

Redmint · 25 Jul 2010 at 18:43

stulid said:
USB3?

try this one- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-250-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

^ Didn't notice that motherboard, still keeps it under the £650.

DireEmblem · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:06

Could you not also explain that the acer would only likely have 1 year warranty, whereas a lot of the parts in a custom build have say 2-5 years(1 minumum)?

Meatball · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:43

Mr Krugga said:
Tell them it's a faster graphics card, CPU has twice as many cores (double the power!), the HDD spins faster, mobo can take two graphics cards at once, RAM is more than 60% faster and other BS (which is true in fact):

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5256/17843025.png

Comes to £649 with free delivery.

I like that spec.

DireEmblem said:
Could you not also explain that the acer would only likely have 1 year warranty, whereas a lot of the parts in a custom build have say 2-5 years(1 minumum)?

Good point, will keep the misses happy.

Redmint · 25 Jul 2010 at 19:46

Not sure about the quality of VTX cards considering they only come with 1 year warranty, but yeah it's a decent enough spec.

Mr Krugga · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:07

Redmint said:
Not sure about the quality of VTX cards considering they only come with 1 year warranty, but yeah it's a decent enough spec.

It's basically Powercolor afaik.

mrtckane · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:22

Mr Krugga said:
It's basically Powercolor afaik.

yeees.

get the spec nailed down in this post then show him the post, tell him that just like you, we also know what we're doing.

and if you tell the wife that acers are known to: blow up/fall apart/get your daughter pregnant and run away (delete as appropriate) she'll be onboard too.

Redmint · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:37

Hm, so it's basically £12.50 extra for a warranty extention.

Also lol at mrtckane.