you guys are forgetting, that if someone wants to use a local retailer, they will not get anywhere near the prices that scan and ebuyer can give, purely because they cant buy in big enough quantities to get the discounts the big etailers get. i know from experience, running my own business, sometimes suppliers to the trade are selling close to the price of etailers, rarely are the prices good enough to match ebuyer/scan.
http://www.scan.co.uk is one of the largest retailers of comp hardware in the UK, theyve got there own support forum here on bit and generally come very highly recommended. Fair play to you for wanting to support a local retailer, assuming its a small family run business or something. I still think its better to build than buy though, even if you bought the components from your local instead of online.
Although building it would definitely save pennies, quite a lot probably, to some people being able to take the whole thing down to the shop and hand it over, and get it back fixed is worth the extra cash Although BT is possibly not the place to argue that point 'cos we like building stuff
I'll second that so here's what I suggest... 1/ Go to Scan, ebuyer wherever and get the parts you want. Use configurators available from companies like Chillblast and Cyberpower and Bit-tec's Buyer's Guide to make sure you getting what you want/need. Then: 2/ If you don't have the confidence to build yourself find one of your LOCAL Pc shops and get them to do it for you. Most will charge between £200-£350 to do it but you will be supporting a local business* and you will have someone local to take the rig back to if something goes wrong in the first year (build) and someone to get advice from re-parts thereafter. As for graphics cards; if you're planing to spend £1400-1800 on a custom built gaming rig what you don't do is go out and buy a gtx480 this week! AMD are releasing their 69xx high end cards about the 22nd Nov. and nVidia are supposed to be releasing the 480's replacement ....TOMORROW... 8th Nov. Fool you if you buy today. *A local shop is unlikely to want to OC the cpu/gpu for you as that will invalidate those parts guarantees where as a custom build company has priced an oc'd cpu failure into their costings ...which you will be funding in the purchase price. However, I would guess it will be atleast a year or so before you begin to think your i7-950 is slow and in need of an OC!
Ok - well I want to buy local. And I'm building myself. Could I get a final opinion on this system. I have choose all parts myself. Again I want to build a high end gaming rig. Is there any flaws, or mismatch, enough power in the PSU? its about 1700 pounds. Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-950 - Quad Core, 3,06Ghz, Socket 1366, 8MB, 130W, Boxed w/fan ASUS P6X58D-E, Socket-1366 - ATX, X58, DDR3, 3xPCIe(2.0)x16, GbLAN, FireWire, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0 Corsair Dominator DHX+ DDR3 1600MHz 6GB - Kit w/3x 2GB XMS3 DHX+, CL8-8-8-24, for Core i7, Connector, 1.65v Seasonic M12D Powersupply 750W - Modulære Kabler, 80Plus Silver, 120mm fan, DC-DC , 4x PCI-E (6+2), 11x SATA Silverstone Fortress II Midi Tower Sort - Blæsere: 3x 180mm Bund, 1x 120mm Top, Aluminium, Vindue, Rød Interior Plextor DVD±RW burner PX-880SA - 24x8x16 DVD±RW, SATA 1 Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0 Gbps, 3,5", 32MB Cache, 8.9ms Crucial RealSSD C300 2,5" 128GB - SATA 6 Gb/s, opp til 355MB/140MB sec lese/skrive OEM SSD 2.5" to 3.5" Bracket SATA - SSD 2.5" to 3.5" (Bracket and screws) Logitech G500 Gaming Mouse, - Weight tuning, 5700 dpi 1 369,00 BenQ 24" LCD G2420HD - 1920 x 1080, 40000:1, 5ms, VGA/DVI/HDMI CoolIT VANTAGE A.L.C. CPU Køler - Socket 775/1156/1366, AM2/AM2+/AM3, 120mm Blæser, 1100 - 2500 RPM Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium EN - OEM, 64bit 1 795,00 DKK 795,00 DKK 604079 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1GB AMP! ® - PCI-Express 2.0, GDDR5, 2xDVI, native-HDMI, HDCP, CUDA, PhysX, 810MHz Thanks
Looks pretty solid to me. II always think i7 is overkill for anything but 3D work, Autodesk stuff etc so I'll shut up about that now The GTX460 seems to be a good choice, especially with how well they look to scale on SLi hould you want more oomph!
