What is a state of the art PC nowadays?

[TheFaQQer]

My new computer has:

8GB RAM
1.5TB hard disk space
Quad core processor
3 x 19" monitors
7.1 surround sound speakers.

For £1500 ish including VAT

[Moscow Mule]

My new computer has:

8GB RAM
1.5TB hard disk space
Quad core processor
3 x 19" monitors
7.1 surround sound speakers.

For £1500 ish including VAT

Do share where you got it from....

[dude69]

Do share where you got it from....

probably built it hmself, we are after all working in IT. This is not the knitting forum you know.

Quad core CPU = £150ish and up
RAM = cheap now
Hard drives = cheap * 3
19" monitor = very cheap * 3
7.1 Speakers = not very expensive


£1500 is not hard to achieve at all.

[TheFaQQer]

Do share where you got it from....

Here.

Just opened it up to see what's inside. The hard drive bays are pretty much all full - 3x 500GB SATA drives, RAID stripe so it shows up as 1x1500GB plus two DVD drives, floppy(!) and I added a memory card reader as well.

BUT - it's come down in price since I ordered it on Sunday

[TheFaQQer]

probably built it hmself, we are after all working in IT. This is not the knitting forum you know.

Quad core CPU = £150ish and up
RAM = cheap now
Hard drives = cheap * 3
19" monitor = very cheap * 3
7.1 Speakers = not very expensive


£1500 is not hard to achieve at all.

I do software, not hardware - haven't got time to put it together, so my people do that for me!

[dude69]

I do software, not hardware - haven't got time to put it together, so my people do that for me!

I like doing it.

DIY is not that much cheaper though.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache (2x4MB (4MB per core pair) Retail Boxed Processor 131950 838 in stock £140.55 £140.55
Kingston 2GB DDR2 667MHz/PC2-5400 Memory Non-ECC Cl5 128157 18 in stock £39.66 £158.64
NEC Optiarc AD-7170S-0B 18x DVD±RW/DL/RAM Serial ATA Black - OEM 125208 18 in stock £14.47 £14.47
Creative OEM T6100 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers - 76W RMS 125087 5 in stock £29.34 £29.34
Extra Value MA9B 19" TFT 500:1 8ms (1280x1024) Black TFT Monitor 3 Years Warranty 117804 220 in stock £85.09 £255.27
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 16MB Cache 7200RPM - OEM 113428 1001 in stock £59.99 £179.97
Sony 3.5" Floppy Drive Black - OEM 074629 601 in stock £3.15 £3.15
Asus P5B Socket Lga775 Core 2 Duo Intel P965 Fsb1066 8gb Ddr2 Sata 300 Gigabit Lan 8chn Audio 121112 11 in stock £65.49 £65.49
Microsoft Wireless Black Optical Desktop 1000 - USB 088758 205 in stock £19.94 £19.94
Total: £866.82 £151.75 £1018.57

That's without OS and graphics card. Not sure what graphics this thing has, but an ATI X1950 Pro Dual 1GB will set you back £200.

[Moscow Mule]

I like doing it.

You, sir, are a geek's geek.

As much as I enjoy technology, I don't think I could be arsed with building my own PC.

[b0redom]

If you get a shuttle case, everything is prewired for you. You just drop in the CPU, click in the RAM, graphics card, and drives and you're done - probably take less than an hour.

[BoredBloke]

I've built a load in my time. I used to build them for other people who don't seem impressed if you have not used the complete number of screws etc to hold it together. I don't do it know as it's a pain in the @rse. They have a PC which works fine for 18 months with all manner of siht loaded on it form various sources and becuase the original installation of XP has stopped working it is somehow the fault of the PC I built.

Now I just build my own. I tend to have a fairly good spec desktop and keep it upgraded. The bits I take out when upgrading go into the the kids PC's.

At the moment mine is a core 2 6400 CPU, 3Gb Ram, 1TB of disk space and a 512mb nVidia 7950 graphics card. I have it dual booted with XP and vista, but hardly use the vista side. It does pretty much everything I throw at it. In the middle of next year I'll probably look at replacing the bits inside as this is now about 8 months old.

[TheFaQQer]

That's without OS and graphics card. Not sure what graphics this thing has, but an ATI X1950 Pro Dual 1GB will set you back £200.

No idea, but it's got two graphics cards in there.