hmm. for that money i'd have expected a better processor... and more than one hdd.
also - two sow graphics cards rather than one fast one? if you buy a fast one then you can add another later to sli it - I suspect they've only done that to be able to put "sli graphics" in the ad.
i'll build a quote when I get to wrk and see what it really costs. T, in bed on pda...
OK, on dabs with no shopping around and ignoring all my suppliers (who'd probably drop it by 20% or so) I can make it for £894.80 Though personally I'd drop the ram to 1gb, change the graphics card to a 7800 or something (sli-capable) and up the speakers to something that costs a bit more than £12.50... say £40 or so for the speakers.
Depending on what the intended use is, i'd also consider dropping the processor to a 3500+ X2, and dropping works (almost useless, and it'd drop 15 quid from the price)
if you drop windows and office/works from it, you'll save around 70 quid, and you'll get free xp pro (not sure about office, didn't check) through the uni's free MSDN subscription.
soo. summary. drop works, office, switch to a single graphics card and up the speakers to something half-decent. price drops by 100-or-so speakers better software better - pro/openoffice/MSDN edu office better than home/works graphics card upgrade path (add another 7800 pci-e sli)
TBH, if you have some friendly tech minded friends who dont mind putting one together, you can usually beat those kind of specs for the price, monitor/case can be 2nd hand etc (i have a spare case if you want one for free... im not gonna use it, and a 400 watt or so powerpack, tho its a lil noisy) and most nforce motherboards have built in audio thats not too bad
software, such as XP/office can be gotten for free from friends quite often too..
damn, i shopped around and reached close to those specs about half a year ago for 400 with many parts from PC world... although it was with budget parts, so i cant guarantee that itll be upto quite as high a standard as a pc with the same specs made with expensive ones
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So thats two thumbs up from the middle class gent trying to pull off typing in leet.
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But otherwise...Yowser! once it is dual-boot it will rock! :)
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also - two sow graphics cards rather than one fast one? if you buy a fast one then you can add another later to sli it - I suspect they've only done that to be able to put "sli graphics" in the ad.
i'll build a quote when I get to wrk and see what it really costs.
T, in bed on pda...
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Though personally I'd drop the ram to 1gb, change the graphics card to a 7800 or something (sli-capable) and up the speakers to something that costs a bit more than £12.50... say £40 or so for the speakers.
Depending on what the intended use is, i'd also consider dropping the processor to a 3500+ X2, and dropping works (almost useless, and it'd drop 15 quid from the price)
if you drop windows and office/works from it, you'll save around 70 quid, and you'll get free xp pro (not sure about office, didn't check) through the uni's free MSDN subscription.
soo. summary.
drop works, office, switch to a single graphics card and up the speakers to something half-decent.
price drops by 100-or-so
speakers better
software better - pro/openoffice/MSDN edu office better than home/works
graphics card upgrade path (add another 7800 pci-e sli)
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software, such as XP/office can be gotten for free from friends quite often too..
damn, i shopped around and reached close to those specs about half a year ago for 400 with many parts from PC world... although it was with budget parts, so i cant guarantee that itll be upto quite as high a standard as a pc with the same specs made with expensive ones
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