Reply to: Bought my new Business desktop.

[css_jay99]

I put all equipment through on the business. Just heard from someone that another contractor we know who is living a champagne livestyle has recently put through

£10000 for a new mini
£1000 for a personal plate
£5000 for a holiday abroad
£1000's in meals out

A new tent with solar panels, weekend away trips, meals & booze and basically anything he likes.

Clock ticking...

LMFAO!

I wish i could get away with that

[Scrag Meister]

Nearly 2 months after buying my new Company Desktop, and I have just repriced exactly the same components and for the first time ever, it cost £214 net more than when I bought it.

Hard drives up by a shed load, any known reason for this, most other things are down by a quid or 2.

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[Scrag Meister]

To be honest, not adverse to Warcraft, I've never played it, but I am adverse to games where you have monthly fees whether you play or not.

Vuse helped me when I was benched at the beginning of the year.

[SimonMac]

Warcraft, give me a break. I've got a better system for my gaming, and I wouldn't touch Warcraft.

This low spec one is wholly and exclusively for the use of my business, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2010.

Hey there is nothing wrong with World of Warcraft! Its helped my time on the bench fly by

[Scrag Meister]

You don't need all that to play Warcraft do you?

Warcraft, give me a break. I've got a better system for my gaming, and I wouldn't touch Warcraft.

This low spec one is wholly and exclusively for the use of my business, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2010.

[DaveB]

Took me quite some months.

Should all be arriving on Saturday, ready for me to build, like grown up meccano.

NAS
4 SGate 1TB SATAII E.Prise 32MB
1 QNAP TS-410 4-bay Sata NAS

PC
1 Creative Titanium Fat Champ
1 CMaster H.A.F. Case RC932 BLK
1 MS Win 7 Pro 64bit OEM
2 27 Dell U2711 WQHD TFT
1 600GB WD SATA 3 WD6000HLHX RAP
1 CM Silent Pro Gold 1200W Modul
1 Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Kbrd
1 Intel Core i7 2600K UNLOCKED s
1 1280MB ASUS GTX570/2DI/1280MD5
1 Pioneer BDR-206DBK DUAL LAYER
2 128GB CSSD-F120GB3-BK Force 3
1 CORSAIR H80 CWCH80 INTEL/AMD
1 ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE Z68 S1155
1 16GB 4x4 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
1 Logitech Z906 5.1 Speakers

Misc cables etc
1 Dlink DAP-1522/B N band Access
2 5M DV205 DVI-D DUALLINK TFT
1 1.5mtr TOSLINK cable metal
1 Logitech Mediaboard Pro

Wife out on Sat evening, so I'll start getting it together then.

She was gutted not being involved in the build. NOT!!!!!

Had to work on Saturday, so that was a hardly any build day.

Build going well though, all in the case, cables tidied, one monitor linked up, booted first time , Mmmmmmm 2560 X 1440, Windows and a few drivers installed. Looking good so far, boots in 40 seconds.

I nearly needed to take the french doors of their hinges to get the case in the house!!! Coolermaster HAF 932, it ain't small. Lots of room inside the case when building, which is good with my sausage fingers.

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[northernladuk]

Took me quite some months.

Should all be arriving on Saturday, ready for me to build, like grown up meccano.

NAS
4 SGate 1TB SATAII E.Prise 32MB
1 QNAP TS-410 4-bay Sata NAS

PC
1 Creative Titanium Fat Champ
1 CMaster H.A.F. Case RC932 BLK
1 MS Win 7 Pro 64bit OEM
2 27 Dell U2711 WQHD TFT
1 600GB WD SATA 3 WD6000HLHX RAP
1 CM Silent Pro Gold 1200W Modul
1 Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Kbrd
1 Intel Core i7 2600K UNLOCKED s
1 1280MB ASUS GTX570/2DI/1280MD5
1 Pioneer BDR-206DBK DUAL LAYER
2 128GB CSSD-F120GB3-BK Force 3
1 CORSAIR H80 CWCH80 INTEL/AMD
1 ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE Z68 S1155
1 16GB 4x4 CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
1 Logitech Z906 5.1 Speakers

Misc cables etc
1 Dlink DAP-1522/B N band Access
2 5M DV205 DVI-D DUALLINK TFT
1 1.5mtr TOSLINK cable metal
1 Logitech Mediaboard Pro

Wife out on Sat evening, so I'll start getting it together then.

She was gutted not being involved in the build. NOT!!!!!

You don't need all that to play Warcraft do you?

[Scrag Meister]

Had to work on Saturday, so that was a hardly any build day.

Build going well though, all in the case, cables tidied, one monitor linked up, booted first time , Mmmmmmm 2560 X 1440, Windows and a few drivers installed. Looking good so far, boots in 40 seconds.

I nearly needed to take the french doors of their hinges to get the case in the house!!! Coolermaster HAF 932, it ain't small. Lots of room inside the case when building, which is good with my sausage fingers.

[Sysman]

Personal use has to be incidental (like what I'm currently doing).

Though to be fair it's very hard for most IT people plus quite a few others to separate work use from personal use.

If I've got a beefy system at home, it will get used for work. I can't help it.

[MarillionFan]

I'm in the market for a rig like that. While it will be used for work, it will also have personal use. What's the deelio? Can it be put through the business?

I put all equipment through on the business. Just heard from someone that another contractor we know who is living a champagne livestyle has recently put through

£10000 for a new mini
£1000 for a personal plate
£5000 for a holiday abroad
£1000's in meals out

A new tent with solar panels, weekend away trips, meals & booze and basically anything he likes.

Clock ticking...

[SueEllen]

I'm in the market for a rig like that. While it will be used for work, it will also have personal use. What's the deelio? Can it be put through the business?

Personal use has to be incidental (like what I'm currently doing).

Though to be fair it's very hard for most IT people plus quite a few others to separate work use from personal use.

[BillHicksRIP]

I'm in the market for a rig like that. While it will be used for work, it will also have personal use. What's the deelio? Can it be put through the business?

[Scrag Meister]

best get another 570 in SLI to justify it.

All in good time.

Why two SSD's? A bit over kill

Striped raid for the system disk and for "Microsoft Office" to make sure Word, Excel and "Visual Studio 2010" load quickly.

[SimonMac]

Why two SSD's? A bit over kill

[Durbs]

Business eh? Cos Word looks lovely on a GTX570

Nice build, simliar to what I just put together, same mobo, proc and gfx and its fookin' rapid. Thats a beast of a 1200W PSU you've got there, best get another 570 in SLI to justify it.