Bought my last pc from ocuk back in 2007 and its still goinig strong today. Along the way a few bits have been updated, new Graphics card, Windows 7, HDD's, but fundimentaly its the same machine.
So time for a upgrade. The most important things in need from the new system is that it needs to be quite and small. I mainly use the pc in the living room under the tv for web browsing, movies and watching tv via media centre. Also some photo editing with lightroom. Not intersted in gaming anymore.
Have been tempted to get this pre-built system from ocuk.
Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
- OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
- Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)
- Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G)
- TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G1600HC9DC01)
- Silverstone SST-NT06-PRO Nitrogon CPU Cooler
- Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
- Intel Core i3-4330 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
- Silverstone Milo ML05B HTPC Case - Black
This comes in at £500 which seems pretty good. I was wondering if it would be worth upgrading the ram to 16Gb and the Processor to a I5 or would the differance be negliable considering my usage.
For comparison this is what i got back in 2007.
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £63.99 1 £63.99
Corsair HX 520W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99 1 £59.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £13.99 1 £13.99
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI Freeview TV Tuner £24.99 1 £24.99
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ2P800R22GK) £99.99 1 £99.99
Lian-Li PC-7B PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £49.99 1 £49.99
Asus P5B (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99 1 £69.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £46.99 1 £46.99
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99 1 £19.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £174.99 1 £174.99
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 V2 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (H195PRQT256DD-R) £109.99 1 £109.99.
Wow RAM was expensive back then.
If anyone has any suggestions for improvements would love to here. Also can anyone confirm that this system can output 5.1 HD audio over HDMI. Thanks.
So time for a upgrade. The most important things in need from the new system is that it needs to be quite and small. I mainly use the pc in the living room under the tv for web browsing, movies and watching tv via media centre. Also some photo editing with lightroom. Not intersted in gaming anymore.
Have been tempted to get this pre-built system from ocuk.
Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
- OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
- Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)
- Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G)
- TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G1600HC9DC01)
- Silverstone SST-NT06-PRO Nitrogon CPU Cooler
- Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
- Intel Core i3-4330 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
- Silverstone Milo ML05B HTPC Case - Black
This comes in at £500 which seems pretty good. I was wondering if it would be worth upgrading the ram to 16Gb and the Processor to a I5 or would the differance be negliable considering my usage.
For comparison this is what i got back in 2007.
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £63.99 1 £63.99
Corsair HX 520W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99 1 £59.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £13.99 1 £13.99
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI Freeview TV Tuner £24.99 1 £24.99
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ2P800R22GK) £99.99 1 £99.99
Lian-Li PC-7B PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £49.99 1 £49.99
Asus P5B (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99 1 £69.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £46.99 1 £46.99
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99 1 £19.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £174.99 1 £174.99
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 V2 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (H195PRQT256DD-R) £109.99 1 £109.99.
Wow RAM was expensive back then.
If anyone has any suggestions for improvements would love to here. Also can anyone confirm that this system can output 5.1 HD audio over HDMI. Thanks.