Spec me a £3000 Base Unit

Vicar said:
Sorry for being blunt, but thats for me to know and no one else, what I do with is my business and no one elses... I asked for specs and thats it, peoples opinions really dont matter to me as to why I spend my money....
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Well to be honest & as daft as it seems, would be pretty much of a waste of £3000 for example if you was going to surf the web, watch dvd's & play games - well dont need to blow 3 grand just to play games! :)
 
Have a look at this spec, if you use a tv card for watchin tv, then i added a nice 24" monitor in!

Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
(£622.74)

Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGA1000EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU
(£229.11)

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard - Retail
(£84.59)

Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black)
(£91.64)

NEC AD7170A 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£21.74)

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
(£34.06)

Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz - OEM
(£663.86)

3 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB OEM
(£384.18)

EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£211.49)

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£422.99)

Sub Total : £2,354.39
Vat : £421.63

Total : £2,830.97

This will be money well spent on a system that will last a long time. Its not £3000, but theres no point in finding something for £200 for the sake of it tho!
 
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black) £77.99
(£91.64) £77.99
(£91.64)
Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB 5000YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £112.99
(£132.76) £338.97
(£398.28)
NEC AD7170A 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.50
(£21.74) £18.50
(£21.74)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £359.99
(£422.99) £359.99
(£422.99)
Thermalright Ultra-90 (Socket 478/775) Heatsink £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-8000C4 1000MHz Dual Channel Kit £239.99
(£281.99) £239.99
(£281.99)
Abit AW9D-MAX Intel 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £114.99
(£135.11) £114.99
(£135.11)
Tagan TG900-U95 900W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU £139.99
(£164.49) £139.99
(£164.49)
Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £564.99
(£663.86) £564.99
(£663.86)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £529.99
(£622.74) £529.99
(£622.74)
Sub Total : £2,402.39
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £54.95
Vat : £430.03
Total : £2,887.37


Why i say, WHY must you spend 3 grand on a base unit + monitor!, unless your shipping it to my address of course ;) , but yeah, WHY!!!!!

PS: Thermaltake, you missed of the ram
 
squiffy said:
If the OP has this sort of money I hope he's got a good display and nice stereo/multi-channel PC setup. Most peope would go daft on the base unit, but use a 15" CRT with £20 PC speaker system.
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My lad is using a pretty decent base unit with an ATI 1950xt card to drive an ageing 15" crt (Sony Triniton jobbie). I have been gently pressing him for ages to get something bigger. However he can play oblivion at 800x600 (and on tha screen it is the recommended native resolution and its fine) with all settings completely maxed out. I mean ALL settings! Perhaps he is on to something and the drive to ever bigger screens needs to be questioned?
 
If the dude wants to spend £3k on his new PC, just let him. I think he's smart enough to work out himself if he's wasting his money or not. Should be a pretty sweet rig man. Hope you enjoy it
 
Base unit only...
  • Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £564.99
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM x3 £326.97
  • Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £214.99 - on 'Pre-order' :(
  • Enermax Galaxy 850W EGA850EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU £154.99
  • Pioneer BDR-101ABK 2x BD-R/RE Blu-Ray DVD Writer - Black £439.99 :D
  • Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler £28.99
  • Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming case £63.99
  • CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-8000C5 1000MHz Dual Channel Kit £199.99
  • BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail x2 £509.98
    Sub Total : £2,504.88
  • Shipping : £24.95
  • Vat : £442.72
  • Total : £2,972.55
~£250+ gets you SLi GTX.

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Vicar said:
PC things... God almighty... do I really need to mention what I will be using my PC for.... Here's a reason!!!! Taking over the world.......

Sorry for being blunt, but thats for me to know and no one else, what I do with is my business and no one elses... I asked for specs and thats it, peoples opinions really dont matter to me as to why I spend my money....
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Well yes as a matter of fact you do.

You buy components based on what you will need them for.

For instance if you do not play games and will have no intention of playing games then why buy 8800 GTX's in SLI.

Sorry to be blunt but if you don't want advice and input then don't post.


ITs not rocket science.
 
This time I agree with ER. Ok say you do have that £3K budget.
If it's for gaming you'll want fast CPU, fast single/dual graphics, soundcard, decent amount of storage (400GB plus a Raptor will do for most people)

Now if it's a file server only, then basic graphics will be fine, but stack up on hard drives, and get a large full tower case.

If it's a word processor/email/browser, you shouldn't really spend £3K.

Music system- midi in/out, pro /ASIO soundcard. So yes you need to say what you're going to do with it.

I stand by you have more money than sense. Unless you're a millionaire, just spend £1600 on a new base unit as that'll probably do for vast majority of people. Don't get SLI straight away as you might not even need the extra power yet.
 
Vicar said:
To all of you who are asking why I am spending this much, its because I can and I want to....
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As has been said, fair enough. It's your money, and you do with it as you please. It's not that we're trying to flame you for your choice; but you came on these boards asking for the best way to spend £3000 on a system.

If you wanted the best way, it would be to spend half as much now on a top-flight system, and put the rest of the money aside for a new system or upgrades so you can stay at the cutting edge as time goes on.

If you want to ignore that advice, as we've said, that's fine. Spend £3k, 4k, 5k; OcUK is hardly going to refuse your trade, as you said! To that end, people have specced you systems, myself included.

But you did ask for the advice. The nature of asking advice is that you may get answers you didn't expect, or even that you didn't want to hear. If you only ask for the answers you want, then there's really no point in asking at all!

In any case, if what you really want is just a way of spending £3k on a system "because you can", the suggestions here have been pretty good. I suggest you pick a decent, roomy, well-built tower case that you like the look of - all objects of desire should look the part after all, it's a great source of their satisfaction! Go with a Lian-Li and you can't go wrong, 2mm guage aluminium oozes class :D Then throw in a Quadro processor, 4GB of your preferred manufacturer's RAM, an nVidia 8800-series videocard, a Fatal1ty soundcard, and a massive PSU, a bunch of high-capacity hard disks, and put it all together on a ludicrously expensive motherboard with some of them snazzy copper heatpipes. Basically, go into each section of "Components" and pick one or two of the most expensive things there. You know the drill, it isn't rocket science, and you don't really need us to tell you how to do it. You were reluctant even to tell us what the system was mainly used for except "general pc things" (which sounds to me like you should buy a £900 media pc and be done with it), so we can't even tailor the build to suit those needs, which shows precisely how little intention you had of listening to what we had to say anyway!

Basically I agree with ER, if you don't want advice or input, then don't post. Spend your money your way and be happy about it.

The bottom line is that you know what you're happy with and how you want to spend what's yours. People have shown you how to blow £3k on a system; people have also shown you how best to spend £3k on a system. Nobody's going to be offended by your decision; but if you were sincerely seeking advice, you might want to consider what's been said, even if you don't go with it. And enjoy your system, that's the main thing!
 
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I think people just see the 3k amount and think its just too much money, but consider this...if you were buying from scratch including a nice TFT or two, that could add up to a machine costing in excess of 2k. I say let the guy spend his hard earned. It will depreciate quicker than a "normal" costing machine purely because more has been spent in the first place. But...hey ho.
 
He probably wants to blow it for tax reasons, the 2tb storage doesnt sound like he's saving MP3s. In which case you get a nice little 'office comp' which btw happens to have a quad core and an 8800.
 
I think you should divulge what you use the pc for,

the someone can spec the best for that purpose.

Without any complaints about price, without its use, people are just gonna build a massive gaming rig with storage.

if you use it for CAD or similar things then please say.
 
Lets say you had £100,000 just sitting in the bank

would it matter to you if you spent £1.5k or £3k on a pc?

i think not

the guy has said he has money to burn, so it obviously doesnt matter to him :p
 
Lolcb said:
I bought a Cartier for £5000 ++ is that a waste? No. I have the money, so I splurge, simple as that.
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You sound very arrogant to me putting it like that.
I find that is a common desease amongst the wealthy.

You can buy a Cartier and hell you can drive a car with your feet but that dont make it a good idea...
 
most people buy 'top' of the range because they think it will gain them more respect on internet forums. Unfortunately this is not the case, people couldn't care less what anyone else has.

He has just upgraded again to 8800GTX and Quad core yet he doesn't play games :eek:
 
face it this guy has the £ to spend on a sweet system

its his £3k he does what he likes with it

he comes on here to ask for specs on a £3k system not asked how to spend his £ he spends it how he likes

would any of you given the chance to buy a £3k baseunit turn it down i think not
 
I think Vicar is talking BS.

I think hes a young kid TBH

As posting

Originally Posted by Vicar
PC things... God almighty... do I really need to mention what I will be using my PC for.... Here's a reason!!!! Taking over the world.......

Sorry for being blunt, but thats for me to know and no one else, what I do with is my business and no one elses... I asked for specs and thats it, peoples opinions really dont matter to me as to why I spend my money....
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Is not a mature response.

Vicar you have been rumbled. :D

And if you are a mature adult then god help you :D
 
Juding by the varied comments here it appears theres some confussion. To the original poster of this thread i find the subject rather srange, while i do not dissagree with it being your decision to spend £3000 on a Pc i would urge like to inform you that i would be neccesary, simply throwing money at a solution doesnt always prove to be the best track.

Pick your components carefully so that they are compatible with each other and provide the best performance, not over-spec on everything and hope it will be the fastest Pc arround.

People are quoting Quad core processors and very large ammounts of memory then throwing in a array of storage that would be wasted.

Set yourself a goal of what youd like to achieve and build round it.

If i were for example be building a high end multimedia Pc for video and graphics editing.

Dual or Quad Core Processor - Manufactuer is your choice
2-4Gb DDR 2 Memory which is listed as compatible with the processor
Motherboard with suitable expansion capabilities and high memory bandwidth
Single or Dual PCI-e 16x Graphics cards configured in either SLi or Crossfire
2 x 36 or 72Gb 10,000 SATA drive in Raid 0 for the OS
2 x 500Gb 7,200 SATA drive in raid 1 for Storage
Seperate PCI-e Hardware SATA Raid Controller.

etc etc

In eccense just by pricing the most expensive components to meet your budget doesnt provide the best results.
 
Vicar said:
PC things... God almighty... do I really need to mention what I will be using my PC for.... Here's a reason!!!! Taking over the world.......

Sorry for being blunt, but thats for me to know and no one else, what I do with is my business and no one elses... I asked for specs and thats it, peoples opinions really dont matter to me as to why I spend my money....
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Well that's stupid thing to say. A bit like saying I want to spend £100,000 on a car, yet not divulging how I want to use that car. Should I want to go off-road, take it up mountains, in heavy snow and through shallow streams, a Ferrari might not be the best option simply because I could afford one. Anyone recommending such a car would be giving me terrible advice, unknown to them of course!

;)
 
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