Bare bones of new system

[hinch]

ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=443854
£128.00 Inc VAT

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=430633
£219.20 Inc VAT

2Gb (2X1Gb) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC8500 (1066), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-15, EPP
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=402850
£275.95 Inc VAT

160Gb Seagate ST3160811AS Barracuda 7200.9, Slim, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, NCQ, 8.0 ms
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=434386
£40.56 Inc VAT (x4)


1Gb XFX 7950GX2, PCI-E (x16), Extreme, Mem 1300 MHz, GPU 520 MHz, 48 Pipes, S-Video/2xDVI-I
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=408901
£384.23 Inc VAT


Total:
£1169.62 inc VAT

[giga191]

ive upgraded some stuff too recently:

Asrock ConroeXFire-eSATA2 mobo - £63
Core 2 duo E6300 - £100
Geil ultra ddr2 667 2gb - £150
BFG 7900GT OC - £184
Hitting the price/performance sweetspot - PRICELESS

[Quinn]

Total:
£1169.62 inc VAT
A friend of mine had just built decent enough rig for simmilar price, but in złoty's.
so nearly 5,8 times cheaper : D

[Cannings]

Arriving tomorrow

Goods Ordered (prices in GBP)
£154.99 x 1 - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£147.99 x 1 - Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-073-WD)
£349.99 x 1 - EVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 SuperClocked 1024MB GDDR3 HDTV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (E595-AX) (GX-012-EA)
£74.99 x 1 - Hiper HPU-4M670 Type R 670W ATX2.2 PSU - Black (CA-010-HP)
£119.99 x 1 - Asus P5N32-SLi SE Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 775) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-174-AS)
£194.99 x 1 - Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£65.99 x 1 - Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Edition - OEM - 1Pk (M93-00200) (SW-008-MS)
£19.99 x 1 - Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Remote Controller (SW-009-MS)

Sub-Total: 1128.92
Shipping: 9.95
VAT: 199.31
Total: 1338.18

[Quinn]

haha, are you getting any cooling for that cpu and hdd?

[giga191]

haha, are you getting any cooling for that cpu and hdd?
soon he will realise that he has no case either :glare:

[Quinn]

Cases are for sissies!

[Kayne]

rich fuckers

[Cannings]

case i've already got and its all up and running now and is damn nice

[giga191]

and now to OC it to the point where your PC burns to the ground

[Psyco Groupie]

hinch you really need a better hdd to use that other stuff properly :>

[cRazy]

tbh I'm going to wait a while longer until the next GFX card and CPU are released then buy everything top-spec. Not like I need it anyway, I just don't wanna fall behind.

[giga191]

tbh I'm going to wait a while longer until the next GFX card and CPU are released then buy everything top-spec. Not like I need it anyway, I just don't wanna fall behind.
good luck with that, your going to be waiting your whole life because there's always something better around the corner that you will make you wait longer :D

[Quinn]

btw, Cannings, why paying extra for shortened MTBF of hdd and getting just a window in exchange?

[hinch]

hinch you really need a better hdd to use that other stuff properly :>

well i was going to go with the 10k raptors but their seek time is higher than the ones i selected i sent for drives with the lowest seek time i could find with most cache and NCQ

[Quinn]

NCQ is good only for server. No matter how multitasking you are, on workstation NCQ always hurts performance.
(With exception of some Maxtors which have so shitty drivers that they barely work without NCQ)

[hinch]

all my pc's double as servers also running web servers and various test bits of software at the same time as i'm using them so it needs to handle both but after reading some tomshardware reviews the 8ms ncq baraccuda's are better than the 10k raptors for data access