how this for £1900

shaffaaf27 · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:21

and i am not willing to negotiate on the price! :mad:

stickroad · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:30

For that amount of money you can easily get a 24inch screen, 4GB Of Memory and a Quad Core. Mind if i redo your spec?

Gunther · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:30

Looks good, only for psu i would go for the corsair 620W. Otherwise nothing to add.

shaffaaf27 · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:36

stickroad said:
For that amount of money you can easily get a 24inch screen, 4GB Of Memory and a Quad Core. Mind if i redo your spec?

i dont need anythignn for a Quad core, as i do no encoding. i meant to put in 4GB, so ill guess ill give out the sound card and something else for the extra 2GB, and a 24" would be too much for my desk.

shaffaaf27 · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:36

Gunther said:
Looks good, only for psu i would go for the corsair 620W. Otherwise nothing to add.

Why 620W?

an 8800GTX will do fine in a 520

stickroad · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:38

Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU

Total : £1,703.55

Add your Peripherals on.

GeForce · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:42

shaffaaf27 said:
i dont need anythignn for a Quad core, as i do no encoding.

Nothing wrong with a bit of future-proofing

And the quads (Q6600) clock like anything.

-JJ- · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:46

Dont you get fans free with the tower.

- 1 rear 120mm TriCool™ fan (standard)
- 1 top 120mm TriCool™ fan (standard)
- 1 lower chamber 120mm TriCool™ fan (standard)
- 1 front 120mm fan (optional)

C64 · 19 Aug 2007 at 22:53

you get serial ata leads with motherboards

MoodyMan · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:00

C64 said:
you get serial ata leads with motherboards

You don't get day-glo ones though

stickroad · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:01

MoodyMan said:
You don't get day-glo ones though

becuase you do look at your case all day long.

DavidB · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:04

becuase you do look at your case all day long.

Its a mirror finish p182....i look at mine half the day and its just a standard one

But no, none of the extra cables are really needed.

C64 · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:11

I think this spec is worth the extra its in budget if you get 1x wd 500 aaks
which are as fast as the raptors btw.

C64 · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:15

MoodyMan said:
You don't get day-glo ones though

which you won't be able to see as the p182 doesn't have a windowed side
that above pc kicks your specs ass imho especially including the ultrasharp 24"
which you say you don't have room for but you must make room an 8800gtx is complete overkill for a 20" monitor + the logitech z5500's this will be an amazing pc.

lay-z-boy · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:34

How do you spend £1900 and not have 4GB of ram? :confused:

Stickroad has done a good spec.

C64 · 19 Aug 2007 at 23:59

well what benefits from having 4gb apart from a few apps
can't think of any games that use much over 1.75 gigs let alone 4

lay-z-boy · 20 Aug 2007 at 00:09

Erm......lets think?

vista superfetch?

games to come in the future?

the fact spending nearly 2k should get you some of the best hardware?

ih8modem · 20 Aug 2007 at 00:09

C64 said:
well what benefits from having 4gb apart from a few apps
can't think of any games that use much over 1.75 gigs let alone 4

Not so much now, but if you are spending this type of cash, get the better modules fitted now (2 x 2GB) and be done. With Vista hungry for RAM, and a few decent games coming out soon, when you spend 1900 quid you want some sort of future-proofing ...

C64 · 20 Aug 2007 at 00:14

so you buy another set when and if you need it vista releases the cached memory for games bf2 is the only game i can think of that eats up 90% of ram.
sell the 6400 2gig and upgrade when needed when better 2gig sticks are out
by the time everyone wants 2gb sticks they will want ddr3 2 gb sticks
but my advice is steer clear of vista completely for at least
another year.

stickroad · 20 Aug 2007 at 08:08

C64 said:
so you buy another set when and if you need it vista releases the cached memory for games bf2 is the only game i can think of that eats up 90% of ram.
sell the 6400 2gig and upgrade when needed when better 2gig sticks are out
by the time everyone wants 2gb sticks they will want ddr3 2 gb sticks
but my advice is steer clear of vista completely for at least
another year.

What planet are you on? :rolleyes:

When spending nearlly 2K their is no reason not to get 4GB of Memory. 2GB is fine but 4GB just makes Vista much snaipier and will help with future games.

DDR3 wont come into play for quite a while yet.

And stay clear of Vista for another year, what sort of advice is that?

It could work flawlessely for him, theirs no reason not to try vista.

Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU

Total : £1,703.55

Add your Peripherals on.