Ordering Today :D

SS-89 · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:42

Shall be ordering this PC today

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Plus Gigabyte GA P35-DS3P - £92.80

Grand Total: £1096

Does it look alrite? And if your going to say w8 for the price drops, im not entirely bothered about saving £60 as I need to order it today

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Dingleberry88 · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:49

Get a dual core.

And with the money you save swap the 2900 for an 8800.

SS-89 · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:50

I do a lot of video editing and encoding along with photoshop so thats why im getting the q6600.

Dingleberry88 · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:53

Fair enough.

I'd still get an 8800 though.

Edit: Also, if you do a lot of video/PS stuff, RAID0 HDDs would help.

Jaffa_Cake · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:59

Get the 8800. The drivers and the card in general are pretty disappointing from ATI.

I would also say get a S-ATA optical drive - they are faster and tidier and mean that IDE can be disabled. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-047-PO

Maybe get a slightly cheaper case too - that is nothing special IMO.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK

Bestest case evverr above :-)

ash_scotland88 · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:59

you could save money an a case

SS-89 · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:04

Jaffa_Cake said:
Get the 8800. The drivers and the card in general are pretty disappointing from ATI.

I would also say get a S-ATA optical drive - they are faster and tidier and mean that IDE can be disabled. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-047-PO

Maybe get a slightly cheaper case too - that is nothing special IMO.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK

Bestest case evverr above

Have fallen in love with the case as my friend has one and i do not like the Akasa eclipse at all im afraid.

Regarding the 2900 im pretty set on getting that gfx card as its performance is on par with a gts and all my previous experiences with ATI regarding their drivers have been very good and im not really willing to pluck for a gtx :/.

Sata optical drive sounds good though

InvaderGIR · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:11

Dingleberry88 said:
Edit: Also, if you do a lot of video/PS stuff, RAID0 HDDs would help.

Such a negliable (sp?) amount it really isn't worth the hassle.

LianLi cases are lovely, the eclipse is dog ugly

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SATA optical drives are deffinatly a good idea, they are about the same price as IDE ones anyways.

I have 3 of those Seagates, brilliant drives, not much seek noise, and formats to about 298GB. Also they seem to be really nice and quick, which is good.

Nice looking setup over all, hope it all goes well.

InvG

Jaffa_Cake · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:17

I would say get this (keeping your case

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GTX is better than the 2900's :-)

InvaderGIR · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:24

Yeah, but a 250GB HDD will go down to around 220-230ish, and that's a huge loss of space, especially if he is doing video and photoshop editing.

InvG

Dingleberry88 · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:26

232GB I think.

stickroad · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:26

Dingleberry88 said:
232GB I think.

Correct.

Or 250,048,479,232 bytes

steve258 · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:48

stickroad said:
Correct.

Or 250,048,479,232 bytes

Definition of a true geek right there

Seriously though the rig looks perfectly fine, as said get a SATA DVD writer which is the same price and perhaps get a 2x2Gb kit if you are not so bothered about overclocking.

I think there will be another price cut for quads in a few days though so maybe worth waiting.

Darg · 17 Jul 2007 at 15:57

Only thing I can see wrong with the OPs first spec is his harddrive. Almost as cheap to get a 500GB WD Caviar AAKS which are supposed to be as fast if not faster then what you have specced. Almost twice the size too

I like my 2900XT and the extra £100 I saved from going with a GTX. Driver releases so far have been good, just making the card better and better.