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[vwdan]

£1500 - man, just go flying for real!

[d000hg]

I used to build every 2-3 years but that has slowly drawn out, to a point where I dont even have a schedule for my next one.

Yeah there's on point for regular work or coding. Windows is seemingly more efficient now than it used to be so why upgrade just for the sake of it.

[eek]

They are usually quite accommodating and reasonable and can manipulate prices to an extend. One of my deliveries went missing, so they had me to cancel the order and re-order it, when i pointed out that i mad the original order at a much lower price (can't remember if it was deal or the price just went up in the meantime) they told me to do the re-order anyway and give them the order number so they went in and adjusted the price manually to the original order price.

Worst case scenario if they refuse to refund you the price difference - start a return procedure for the original order and make a new order at the lower price, when the item arrives - send it right back as a return of the original item, no need to remove the already installed GPU, package it etc.

I've done the same myself in the past - delivery and collection came on the same day so I asked the driver to wait 2 minutes as I opened the box removed the despatch note added the return slip and put on the return label.

[woohoo]

They are usually quite accommodating and reasonable and can manipulate prices to an extend. One of my deliveries went missing, so they had me to cancel the order and re-order it, when i pointed out that i mad the original order at a much lower price (can't remember if it was deal or the price just went up in the meantime) they told me to do the re-order anyway and give them the order number so they went in and adjusted the price manually to the original order price.

Worst case scenario if they refuse to refund you the price difference - start a return procedure for the original order and make a new order at the lower price, when the item arrives - send it right back as a return of the original item, no need to remove the already installed GPU, package it etc.

Great idea! They refused to refund the price difference, bit annoyed but there you go, eager beaver!

[sal]

I thought that might happen when I saw your post about the TI - just couldnt wait to install it I'm onto Amazon to see what they can do though not going to worry too much about £50 quid after all my company paid for this for multi-monitor support

They are usually quite accommodating and reasonable and can manipulate prices to an extend. One of my deliveries went missing, so they had me to cancel the order and re-order it, when i pointed out that i mad the original order at a much lower price (can't remember if it was deal or the price just went up in the meantime) they told me to do the re-order anyway and give them the order number so they went in and adjusted the price manually to the original order price.

Worst case scenario if they refuse to refund you the price difference - start a return procedure for the original order and make a new order at the lower price, when the item arrives - send it right back as a return of the original item, no need to remove the already installed GPU, package it etc.

[woohoo]

Just seen the price change to £499.95. If you are within the refund period, phone Amazon customer service and ask for a refund...

I thought that might happen when I saw your post about the TI - just couldnt wait to install it I'm onto Amazon to see what they can do though not going to worry too much about £50 quid after all my company paid for this for multi-monitor support

[eek]

I've just bought this graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1080 - 546.89 from amazon - not got it yet though but seems cheap for a 1080.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Just seen the price change to £499.95. If you are within the refund period, phone Amazon customer service and ask for a refund...

[Scrag Meister]

Not built an "invoicing/coding" PC build since 2011, and its still running Excel, Word, Visual Studio and SQL Server without any problems.

The twin SSDs, i7 2600 and Nvidia 580 still perform well enough.

I used to build every 2-3 years but that has slowly drawn out, to a point where I dont even have a schedule for my next one.

[eek]

For a serious rig you're going to need two though eh?

X-plane 11 doesn't play well with SLI so best to max out a single card...

[Fred Bloggs]

1080TI is available for pre-orders tomorrow. should be about £600 all in

For a serious rig you're going to need two though eh?

[eek]

1080TI is available for pre-orders tomorrow. should be about £600 all in

[LondonManc]

A PS4, coke and hookers. HTHBIDI

[woohoo]

I've just bought this graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1080 - 546.89 from amazon - not got it yet though but seems cheap for a 1080.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[sal]

probably worth waiting a week for the Ryzen chips to appear as there seems to be discounts appearing on intel's top of the range chips.. The Ryzen chips are 8 core however so probably not much use for what you want it for...

Also ssd rather than an M.2 chip?

+1 for the AMD Ryzen CPUs even if they turn out to be more hype than actual performance, they will cause Intel to drop their prices a bit.

Samsung 960 Evo is M.2 NVMe

I always assemble myself as i like it and it costs less.

What NLUK suggested looks good, with the exception that I would swap the Noctua cooler with Corsair Hxxx pre-built liquid coolers - similar price and not a big fan of having 2lb+ of cooler dragging on the MB. If you find the corsair fan too loud - swap it with Noctua fan

Currently running i7 4770 on ASUS Maximus formula VI MB with 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum, 250GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD + 3TB WD black, 3 x Radeon 290X GPUs, 1200W Superflower PSU. All custom liquid cooling loop with XSPC blocks and pump in corsair Obsidian 750D case. Served me well for 3.5 years with just the PSU giving up the ghost about 2 years ago, swapped under warranty.

[eek]

The 4K Gaming PC – Best Gaming PC for £1,500 / $2,000

CPU: Intel Core i5-7600K – £219 at Overclockers.co.uk | $240 at Amazon.com
Motherboard: MSI Z270 Gaming Pro – £168 at Overclockers.co.uk | $175 at Amazon.com
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3000MHz – £112 at Ebuyer.com | $125 at Newegg.com
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 – £570 at Overclockers.co.uk | $580 at Amazon.com
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo 250GB – £122 at Ebuyer.com | $130 at Newegg.com
HDD: Toshiba 3TB HDD – £80 at Overclockers.co.uk | $89 at Amazon.com
Power Supply: EVGA GQ 80 Plus Gold 650W – £87 at Amazon.co.uk | $74 at Amazon.com
Case: Corsair 400C Black Window – £95 at Amazon.co.uk | $97 at Amazon.com
Cooler: Noctua NH-D14– £65 at Overclockers.co.uk | $66 at Amazon.com
Read more at Best Gaming PC: The ultimate PC-building guide February 2017

probably worth waiting a week for the Ryzen chips to appear as there seems to be discounts appearing on intel's top of the range chips.. The Ryzen chips are 8 core however so probably not much use for what you want it for...

Also ssd rather than an M.2 chip?