I'd imagine at least a few of you have had an e-mail pop through your inbox with marvellous designs on the next best thing in computer hardware. Just had one from Novatech and the entire ensemble looks a little strange to be honest, the iReign... http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pc/range/ireign.html Surely they could do better? Doesn't even include an operating system, peripherals or monitor for the best part of £1000. What would you change?
2 500 gig drives in RAID 0 Swap it for 7200rpm 1TB and SSD with the extra money you save by not buying a prebuilt The case will probably be **** so swap it for a HAF 912 or something similar. Corsair/Be Quiet/Seasonic Power Supply. 1600 instead of 1333 RAM. I think thats it.
Take out the i7-2600k for a i5-2500k. Put the savings to a gtx 570 over the 560ti. Agreed on the hdds. Oh, and OC the dammed thing!
i would change the price for a starter . just done a quick price up from scan and its come to about £650-670 that not inc the case and psu which will be about £30 call it 40 with keyboard and mouse. and do not forget novertech will buy in bulk so they are making about £300 profit on each
It strikes me that the typical 'Pre-Built' buyer is going to confused by RAID 0 anyway and probably cause more trouble in the long term with future support should it go wrong. Imagine trying to explain how to restore the MBR to ordinary Joe public if the array develops a fault! Much rather go 1TB Samsung F3, probably even sneak a Crucial SSD in somewhere, then you'd see a speed benefit!
Case and psu £30? Unless its a colorsit 250W or something I very much doubt it for £40 less at scan 2500k + 570 in an FT02 with home premium. Add a 60gb SSD and you're to £1,035 inc vat, better but still not great. http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=1266
The ram is a must to change maybe corsiar 1600 dual channel psu Corsair/Seasonic hdd/ssd western dig 750 black and a ssd for boot speed case maybe a 690II
