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Offline Si

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New PC
« on: May 10, 2012, 12:36:19 PM »
Been thinking about getting a new PC - I've listed the components I found. If anyone has any advice (like why on earth did you choose thon HD?) I'd appreciate it. :)

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Re: New PC
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 02:44:30 PM »
Oh that would be the new i5 with the "3D" transistors. I'd give that a month or two until the new technology has had it's bugs fixed.
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Re: New PC
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2012, 04:34:45 PM »
yes the ivy-bridge uses a raised area on the transistor which helps prevent electron leakage (so the boffins say anyway).  I would have liked to go for the i7 version but thats a little overpriced imo.
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Re: New PC
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2012, 08:47:56 AM »
If you can afford it swap the monitor for an LED one, its well worth the extra money. We bought 2 24" samsung LED monitor 2 weeks ago and the picture quality over HDMI is amazing.
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Re: New PC
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2012, 09:21:47 AM »
Hmmm food for thought - I just saw the size of that screen and went 'wow!'  (I work off a 19" screen at home).  I'll look into that.
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Re: New PC
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2012, 02:43:30 PM »
Would you think about getting an SSD instead of that external USB drive?

even a 64GB one would do for windows or your own preferred flavor of OS. Also i think you could get the quicker version of the HDD thats 6 GB/s for not a hell of a lot more :)

Looks good though. I'll post my parts im thinking about gettin later on when i get home :D

Good site too, what is it? Seems cheap enough for that 27" benQ aswell.

I usually use aria.co.uk or just dabs.com
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Re: New PC
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2012, 04:45:48 PM »
That is Aria.co.uk - seems to be the cheapest for components - at least when I did that list up.  SSD might be worth experimenting with for the OS to sit on...I'll probably have to redo the list anyway by the time I get the cash to pay for the thing..
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Re: New PC
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2012, 10:20:22 AM »
Thought it looked familiar, d'oh! haha.

I know what you mean, and by the time we get around to gettin the orders in for the parts we've picked no doubt there will be 14 new pieces we want to throw in the mix :)

Will you be thinking about multiple GPU setups down the road a bit Si?
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Re: New PC
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2012, 01:00:33 PM »
No, I think one GPU is enough for me - I did try it before with two nividia cards but the performance gains weren't worth it - maybe things have improved in 5 years though?
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Re: New PC
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2012, 10:56:43 AM »
Yeah one should do it unless you put two 2-4GB cards in there  :-\  id hate to even price that. Just looking at SSD's here, 128GB for ?70, not too bad, right? even the 64GB for ?50 would do me lol, im not greedy  :o
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Re: New PC
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2012, 03:06:53 PM »
Well i splashed out the other day seein as its almost my birthday lol.

Heres the layout:

Fractal design r3 mid tower with usb 3.0
asus p8z77-v motherboard
intel i7-3770k cpu (running @ stock speed atm)
zalaman copper cpu cooler - (idle = 30oC) - (100% load = 64oC)
8GB DDR3 RAM
128GB OCZ SSD
128GB OCZ SSD
750w PSU
wireless desktop (keyboard and mouse)

All hooked into an LG 42LD450 by way of HDMI ( not as crisp and clean as id like due to overscanning issues but im swithcing to either the DVI or the displayport ionce the cables arrive to hopefully overcome this).

Doing all the bench/stress tests and once im happy that the temps are settled and nice ill probs try and take it up to 4.4Ghz :)
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