Some help buying a Pre-made rig

Poison Sun · 12 Sep 2011 at 23:44

I've been using a laptop for my PC gaming for the last year and have decided it's not up to scratch, and that I'd like to take the plunge and buy a desktop.

The one I've been looking at is here Titan Supersaurus

I was wondering if it will run a few games that I'm interested in playing, so could it run BF3, SWTOR, The Witcher 1/2, Rift at Max settings?

Also this is more of a taste thing, but how easy is it to ask for the rig to be in a different case? I'd prefer it in something a bit more understated like this. Would this be a problem? I can imagine that the case might be chosen specifically to meet cooling needs.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

chigley · 12 Sep 2011 at 23:59

I'll throw it straight out there before someone else does: have you considered building yourself? Quite a bit of money to be saved plus the ultimate customisation when it comes to things like cases

Poison Sun · 13 Sep 2011 at 00:06

chigley said:
I'll throw it straight out there before someone else does: have you considered building yourself? Quite a bit of money to be saved plus the ultimate customisation when it comes to things like cases

I did think long and hard about it, but what it boils down to is that I just don't feel confident enough to spend £800+ on a self build which would be my first. I'm too afraid I'd break it or do it incorrectly, however easy it is build.

ojgbrown · 13 Sep 2011 at 00:14

I did think long and hard about it, but what it boils down to is that I just don't feel confident enough to spend £800+ on a self build which would be my first. I'm too afraid I'd break it or do it incorrectly, however easy it is build.

Just did my first build recently and whilst I understand the trepidation as I had the same feelings, it is really a piece of cake, a lot cheaper, as well as being both fun and rewarding so I would not discount it.

Hyburnate · 13 Sep 2011 at 00:17

Nobody knows about BF3 till it comes out

Scythe · 13 Sep 2011 at 00:21

Poison Sun said:
I did think long and hard about it, but what it boils down to is that I just don't feel confident enough to spend £800+ on a self build which would be my first. I'm too afraid I'd break it or do it incorrectly, however easy it is build.

I just built my first system which is similar to your spec, it really is so easy, especially with the detailed instructions, I just followed the instruction manual if I got stuck.

I'm now looking into aftermarket cooling and overclocking, it's much more rewarding to have a system that you've built and tweaked yourself on the desk, I keep looking for more things I can improve! This is gonna turn expensive