Build or Buy?

[N!ck]

If it's the £30 for student thing Microsoft started a while back, then didn't that end in January time?

Good point I didn't think about that. Looks like students can get Windows 7 Professional for £70.

[Jam]

+ OS + Keyboard & Mouse (so +£100)



I went on Dell to compare the prices and found this on offer. Plus if I customized the lower one to match the build parts it came to £690. Now I really would like to build a PC but at this cheap price I don't know if I can let it pass.

[Tomm]

Reason it has a discount is that the i7 860 is the first model to be released and is now pointless since you can get the 930 for the same price that while having the same clock speed has QPI rather then the older DMI I/O bus and has a triple channel rather then dual channel memory controller. Only "advantage" over the 9xx core i7 is that you can fit it in a LGA 1156 socket rather than having to use the LGA1366 socket which is now going to be exclusive to the higher end intel processors.

[Richie]

Build if you know what parts you need, if not still build but ask someone with knowledge.

@Nick
Does the student thing apply in Ireland do you know? Because I don't wana be paying 200 odd quid for software.

[Jam]

Just a question or two; does the mobo have intergrated graphics so I can use it while I wait for the money for the GPU and is there anyway to use an Upgrade version on a new machine? I can get W7 Professional for £43 from Software4Students but they don't sell full versions.

[Markeh]

The board does not have integrated graphics. And you'd need a full version, I think.