A little advice, please :)

stulid said:
Nothing is wrong with your original spec.

its just that it can be argued that the last spec by me is the better pc, quad core cpu will last longer when games/apps get ever more multi-threaded.

the keyboard and mouse (especially the keyboard) is better.
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You're right, quad does make sense - I'll have another look and try to factor it in.

Also, I went with that keyboard because I was actually after a simple keyboard really, like I mention, I use a MacBook Pro keyboard and they're as simple and sleek as they come - so I was trying to replicate that a little if I could.
 
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ToeJamathon said:
Oh excellent, is that a better PSU choice then? I did see that one, but went with the Corsair because I was more familiar with the brand - but I'd happily switch to that one if it's considered to be better, though?
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BeQuiet are very very large in Europe, and widely recognised as a good brand.

I have one, Stu loves them, and they beat all competition up to a price of around £60 :p

Truly cracking units!
 
stulid said:
If you want more convincing about the benQ,

just type it into the search function of this forum and select the monitor forum as the search direction.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/search.php?searchid=11847195

must be real world opinions on it there.
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Thanks, I'll have a read now.

One more thing actually, I forgot to ask about the HDD choice - will there be any performance difference between the 32MB Cache on the Samsung I went for and the 16MB Cache on the Seagate you chose?

I've heard very good things about the Samsung Spinpoint F3s, and went for it because of performance reviews alone, not for the 1TB size, which, to be honest, I didn't want or need - but as it was very cheap anyway (£40) I thought I may as well. I know the hard drive is going to be the bottleneck either way, so I was hoping to close that gap a little by getting the best 7200rpm one I could find?
 
Harddrives are already at a "maximum" 16mb or 32mb makes no difference, Xbitlabs had a 500GB round-up last year that showed zero difference between the Seagate/Samsung and WD Black.

get the cheapest.
 
ToeJamathon said:
Thanks, I'll have a read now.

One more thing actually, I forgot to ask about the HDD choice - will there be any performance difference between the 32MB Cache on the Samsung I went for and the 16MB Cache on the Seagate you chose?

I've heard very good things about the Samsung Spinpoint F3s, and went for it because of performance reviews alone, not for the 1TB size, which, to be honest, I didn't want or need - but as it was very cheap anyway (£40) I thought I may as well. I know the hard drive is going to be the bottleneck either way, so I was hoping to close that gap a little by getting the best 7200rpm one I could find?
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Seagate is actually a faster drive :p
 
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