Blimmin indecision

ajfulhamfan

ajfulhamfan

ajfulhamfan

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Hey again all,

Firstly, sorry for yet another spec me thread, but been looking and looking and jut cant decide on things myself.

Posted a few weeks back asking for an all singing all dancing mega build for a budget of £1500, which was all well and good until I decided to get a new job which involves me working away 90% of the time, and can't really lug something that big around from hotel to hotel, so instead decided to go for a gaming laptop, but, that defeats the whole point of spending my dosh to build something. So that idea also got binned.

So the challenge is: A spec that is portable, wont be angry at me moving it around every 3 or 4 days, small enough to fit in a suitcase wrapped in clothes and a box along with other stuff, high settings BF4 powerful and £1000 tops. Something the size of an alienware x51 maybe. Need everything apart from Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor.

Thanks in advance :)
 
Quick spec to get the ball rolling:
YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK Geforce GTX 780 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x MSI Z87I AC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £102.95
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £89.99
1 x Silverstone Strider SFX Gold 450w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (SST-ST45SF-G) £76.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Silverstone SST-RVZ01 Raven Mini-ITX - Black £69.98
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Total : £1,052.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).


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The Raven Z looks to be the only case short of custom made that will fit in a suitcase, also I wasn't able to fit a heatsink into the budget, so you'd be on stock cooling.
 
Are you going to be taking everything with you? Keyboard, monitor etc? Because that doesn't seem like a viable option to me.

I think you're stuck with a gaming laptop.
 
I think despite the hotel room tv idea, anything other than a gaming laptop is going to be wildly impractical. I've worked in a similar capacity and could'nt imagine lugging a full desktop around would be viable. You may not want to go for one but surely a laptop is your only truly viable option. The risk of wear and tear on a desktop that gets lugged around a lot has to be very high.
 
How small is small?

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 780Ti 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (03G-P4-2881-KR) £529.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI IMPACT Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £173.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Blue 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY16GX3M2A1600C9B) £143.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £125.99
1 x Western Digital Scorpio Blue 7mm 2.5" 1TB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD10SPCX) HDD £89.99
1 x Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £74.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX Compact Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011047-WW) £71.99
Total : £1,556.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
HalfBakedJake said:
Just saw the reply

YOUR BASKET
1 x msi gs60 2pe ghost pro 15.6" true hd led gtx 870m 3gb 4700hq, 16gb ddr3, super-raid, 1tb hdd - windows 8.1 £1499.99
total : £1,509.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).




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i was going to post the same thing. seems silly lugging a pc around everywhere. what if a hotel still uses crt screens? in newquay, they're still advertising hotels having 'colour tv'.

op, buy yourself a sick laptop. that one above is your original budget and can play most current games on high - ultra settings.

graphics benchmark: http://www.notebookcheck.net/nvidia-geforce-gtx-870m.107792.0.html

Not to mention how much easier it would be to bang one out on, compared to having to move your PC around and stretch the HDMI and mouse cable so you can reach it from the bed (unless of course you'll be carrying a Wireless mouse).
 
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Haha, I never thought of the logistical nightmare a small desktop could have, in regards to banging one out! Sold! Laptop it is!

On another note, anyone know when the next gen intels are due? If its any less than 5 months, I will put my proper build on hold. Planning on building it in 3 months time as have 2 weeks off :)

Cheers for the persuasion all
 
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