Good spec for the price?

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Ok well for £900 from another company ive got:

Asus P5N32SLI SE Deluxe LGA775, PCI-E, GBlan, ATX
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz LGA775 Processor - Retail
Corsair TwinX 2048Mb DDR2-6400 (2x1024Mb) w/ Heat Spreaders
Asus 640Mb nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS PCI-Express VGA Card
300Gb Maxtor MaxLine3 S-ATA I/II 16Mb Cache Hard Drive
Shinobi SH09A Black/Silver ATX Case With 500W PSU

i think i got it a bit cheap or is that the going price? what do ya'l think? ive got my own dvd writer and xfi xtreme music card to put right in there when it gets here

ta
 
Not bad, depends what that case and PSU are like. A shoddy 500W PSU could be disaster... :eek:

edit: I pulled that spec together from OCuk and it comes to £966. Better PSU though (probably)...
 
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That is about on a par with what you'd pay here but you'd have to build it yourself, you don't mention if that system is prebuilt. I'd have to agree with melbourne720, the quality of the case and PSU are the main issue.

Also if you haven't already bought it then I might counsel against getting the Maxtor, although I've got 3 myself they have had a few reliability problems recently (generally and in my case specifically). :)
 
Ah yes, the system is built for me as im lazy - well i dont have enough time anymore or i would spend the time doing it myself lol

they test the pc for a few hours apparently before they send it off, i suppose if theres issues with the case/psu then i could always send it back alone :D

Cheers guys
 
That case is'nt too bad. Good airflow with 120mm fans front and rear. The plastic facia is awful though. The Winpower psu is not up to much either. It does have a removable mobo tray though which surprised me, (I built a pc for my son using this case/psu), made building the pc a lot easier. First case i have used that had one of those. It's a rather large case actually but the build quality is'nt that good. Not the worst i have seen though.
 
lol.. well

got the pc today, installed all the drivers etc

went to play ghost recon...

played it for about 5 mins, and POP

the powersupply has gone... could smell burning etc, really gave me a shock lol i need new pants!

anyway i thought i could get away with that cheap piece of rubbish you get with the case, but ive now bought this one:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-CS

is it any good? thanks.
 
yeh, you did lol..

rma-ing? whats that mean lol

glad to hear ive chosen a decent psu then!

:)
 
RMA = Return Merchandise Authorisation, generally you phone up the company and they will give you a RMA number which you then label the product with so that they can track it.
 
oh, they gave me a returns number, so im sending it back and their sending me a new one if found to be faulty, which im just gonna stick on the bay :P
 
while i have a thread open..

is there such thing as a pci-e sound card?

i have an xtreme music, but just wondering if you can get much better.. as i know the RAM or whatever on the other xfi's isnt really needed?

just thinking if there is pci-e soundcard, could be a better choice?

cheers
 
I don't think I would complain about it, assuming the model numbers are correct the changed motherboard supports quad core and higher FSB speeds than the original appears to so it seems a fair swap as far as you are concerned. :)
 
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