Need a review on this PC

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16-01-2009, 08:01 PM
Pyroka

Need a review on this PC

Motherboard: ASUS P5N-D nForce 750i SLI Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142585...oduct_overview) £90.94

Case: Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case - No PSU
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143852) £129.90

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache Processor
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131950) £157.16

RAM: Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130429) £41.22

Graphics Card: Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Dual DVI / HDTV (PCI-E)
(http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=609437) £180.00

Hard Drive: 500GB Samsung HD502IJ Spinpoint T SATA300 7200 rpm 16MB Cache 8.9 ms NCQ Hard Drive
(http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatalog/SAT_500GB.html) £39.49

CD Drive: LiteOn 20X DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA LightScribe Black Bare Drive - OEM
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141995) £15.99

PSU: Coolermaster Silent Pro 500W Modular PSU
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147112) £60.99

TOTAL: £715.69

Does anyone see anything unneccessary in that? I've got a 1TB External HDD btw, and a free operating system I can use + a mouse + a monitor + keyboard. ;)
16-01-2009, 08:04 PM
scottish

Whats with the stuff off different sites, get them all off same one lols makes more sense.

Other than that looks fine.
16-01-2009, 08:04 PM
DarrenToogood

I built a similar spec PC without a graphics card for £500...however your case and graphics card are boosting the price up.

To me it seems a fair deal.
16-01-2009, 08:05 PM
Pyroka

The graphics card is reccomended by many mags, and the case well, I'm only going to get an Antec 900 and I've heard they take alot of maintaining, and the Antec 1200 is well worth the money so! =D

I was searching around Skott, I'm probs gonna get half of it off Ebay tbh.
16-01-2009, 08:11 PM
scottish

I'm always against ebay tbh, never bought anything off ebay and i doubt i ever will.

Ebuyer is great aswell as other sites like overclockers.co.uk, scan etc
16-01-2009, 08:13 PM
Pyroka

Quote:

Originally Posted by entrance

I'm always against ebay tbh, never bought anything off ebay and i doubt i ever will.

Ebuyer is great aswell as other sites like overclockers.co.uk, scan etc

Yeah I checked all those sites, plus dabs.com and a few others. I'm just shopping about rly, seeing how many pennies I can shave off a price!
16-01-2009, 08:15 PM
scottish

You also gotta take into account of shipping (if any) on products

So theres no point buying tons of ebuyer then one product off Scan because its £5 cheaper, when the delivery for the product is £10 :P
16-01-2009, 08:16 PM
Pyroka

Quote:

Originally Posted by entrance

You also gotta take into account of shipping (if any) on products

So theres no point buying tons of ebuyer then one product off Scan because its £5 cheaper, when the delivery for the product is £10 :P

ERK, I never thought about that one... Oh damnit lol, alright cheers for that. Well the dearest things are on eBuyer (except from the GFX card, but I may change that).
16-01-2009, 08:28 PM
Agnostic Bear

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyroka

Motherboard: ASUS P5N-D nForce 750i SLI Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142585...oduct_overview) £90.94

Case: Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case - No PSU
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143852) £129.90

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache Processor
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131950) £157.16

RAM: Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130429) £41.22

Graphics Card: Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Dual DVI / HDTV (PCI-E)
(http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=609437) £180.00

Hard Drive: 500GB Samsung HD502IJ Spinpoint T SATA300 7200 rpm 16MB Cache 8.9 ms NCQ Hard Drive
(http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatalog/SAT_500GB.html) £39.49

CD Drive: LiteOn 20X DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA LightScribe Black Bare Drive - OEM
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141995) £15.99

PSU: Coolermaster Silent Pro 500W Modular PSU
(http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147112) £60.99

TOTAL: £715.69

Does anyone see anything unneccessary in that? I've got a 1TB External HDD btw, and a free operating system I can use + a mouse + a monitor + keyboard. ;)

Get this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145750 instead of P5N mobo
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155205 instead of 4870 (trust me 4850 is the only gfx you will need)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126946 instead of Antec 900 (it's a **** case)
16-01-2009, 09:30 PM
Jordy

If you do it today (Not long left) this is worth it, i7 system and 1TB HDD, you still have to build it yourself but it's pretty cool as there's noy many iCore 7 systems around.

Could always upgrade to 6GB RAM and atm it's with out a graphics card & OS but still a good deal.

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx
16-01-2009, 09:33 PM
scottish

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jordy

If you do it today (Not long left) this is worth it, i7 system and 1TB HDD, you still have to build it yourself but it's pretty cool as there's noy many iCore 7 systems around.

Could always upgrade to 6GB RAM and atm it's with out a graphics card & OS but still a good deal.

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

I'm sure theres a good few thousand around ;)

No point in 6GB RAM you wouldn't notice difference from 4GB and even more useless if your using 32bit OS.
16-01-2009, 10:00 PM
Jordy

Quote:

Originally Posted by entrance

I'm sure theres a good few thousand around ;)

No point in 6GB RAM you wouldn't notice difference from 4GB and even more useless if your using 32bit OS.

Yeah I'm sure they are if you look in the right places, for most gamers or home-users though, very few have them so it'd be jumping on the bandwagon first :P

And you can't have 4GB as it's DDR3 RAM so I think the jump from 3GB to 6GB would be worth it in most cases, but yes you would need 64-bit to make it worth it.
16-01-2009, 10:04 PM
Soy

You forgot an OS... unless you intend on using linux

at above, 64 bit isn't worth it, stick with 3.5gb ram at 1300mhz
16-01-2009, 10:06 PM
scottish

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyroka

Does anyone see anything unneccessary in that? I've got a 1TB External HDD btw, and a free operating system I can use + a mouse + a monitor + keyboard. ;)

hint hint.
16-01-2009, 10:16 PM
N!ck

Quote:

Originally Posted by entrance

I'm sure theres a good few thousand around ;)

No point in 6GB RAM you wouldn't notice difference from 4GB and even more useless if your using 32bit OS.

Yes there is a lot of point in more than 4GB.

And it looks great, but i'd probably get a motherboard with an Intel chipset rather than Nvidia. a P5Q or something along those lines.
16-01-2009, 11:14 PM
Pyroka

Right I checked out a few things and I've reduced the price down to about 650, just got rid of the GFX card and gonna dual SLI two 1GB 9800GT's. If I wanna dual it it'll be about 115 quid more, but I'm not too bothered since I'll just upgrade it over time. ;)
17-01-2009, 12:09 AM
Kyle!

Did you post this on /g/? :p