Gaming PC again

[smeg]

Hi,

I bought a pc a while back and have had nothing but trouble since I bought it, I have finally got a refund so I am looking into getting another pc. I would like to get a pc off a company with good customer service because I could do without the hassle I had with the last one.

I am looking at getting a pc mainly for gaming, and I will be using 3ds max and photoshop as well.

So far I have found this from Gaming pc, custom pc, gaming system, custom gaming pc, gaming pcs

Power Supply - Hiper Type-M 580W SLI Ready
Processor - Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 2 x 512KB cache
Graphics Card - 2x BFG GeForce 7950 GT 512MB PCI Express
Memory - 2GB Corsair DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX
Motherboard - Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2
Hard Disk - 320GB Caviar SE16 SATA 300
Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music

It also comes with speakers cd drives etc. It comes to £1629.99 thats just about my budget.

Has anyone delt with or heard anything about wired2fire, I cannot find any bad things about them, they sound good from what I've heard. And is there any good companys people recommend, especially if they have had a good experience with there customer service.

Thanks.

 

[Karanislove]

Change..
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo (Fastest Processor at the moment in the market for Desktop PC's)
Graphics Card - 8800gtx instead of two 7950GT, for more details look [link=http://www.hardwareforums.com/new-8800gtx-gpu-15639/]here[/link]...
Mobo - Intel
PSU - If you really want to have two graphics card then 1000W will be ur go... otherwise more than 600w is required...
HDD - Seagate is the best known company in this one...

 

[zeus]

I havent worked out what it would cost to build it yourself but its definitely not worth £1600!
For that moeny you could probably get all the top bits.... 10k rpm drive/s, Core 2 Quadro, a top end motherboard etc.

I understand the benefits of having someone build it for you though... I had our last PC built just because I couldnt be arsed with the hassle of postage and the possibility of DOA parts.

As for the company you are looking at.... in terms of quality of the pc its down to the parts they use. I suppose the weakest link might be the WD drive but I doubt you will have any issues. Some dodgy ones slip past quality control so people do get the odd unreliable one. Most are perfectly good though.

 

[smeg]

thanks for the replys,

I could go with this then (full list this time):

Case -NZXT Lexa
Power Suply -Antec True Power Trio 650W
Processor -Core 2 Duo E6600 4MB cache
Graphics Card -BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI Express
Memory -2GB Corsair DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX
Motherboard -Asus P5N32-SLI Premium Socket 775
Hard Disk -320GB Caviar SE16 SATA 300
Optical Drive 1 -BTC DVD-Rom x16
Optical Drive 2 -NEC 4570A DVD-RW
Sound Card -Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Speakers -Creative T7900 7.1 Speakers

Im also getting XP home, floppy disk drive and Onsite Warranty (full parts and labour - 2 years)

That all comes to £1653.99 Inc VAT

The Motherboard is the only one I can choose from, I could get a Tagan Turbojet 900W power supply for £68 more and I could get a E6700 but its a £147 difference would it be worth it?

One of my main concerns though is weather they are a good company or not because the last company I delt with was awfull, my pc just crahsed all the time and they took forever to do anything about anything, so I would like the peace of mind that if anything went wrong that they would sort it out with efficiency. So if anyone has heard of them I would like to know your opinions, I will keep looking myself but I am finding it hard to find anything, I have only heard good things so far which seems to be a good sign.

Also there is beastcomputers.co.uk ...has anyone ever delt with or heard of them?

 

[smeg]

Hi again, im more inclined to go with beastcomputers at the moment and I have put this together so far:

Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 2.40GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P5N32 SLI Premium
Memory: Corsair 2gb Dominator 8500C5 TwinX 1025MHz
Case: Lian Li V1000
Hard Drive One: 320gb Western Digital 320gb 16mb NCQ Raid 0
Graphics Cards: XFX nVidia 8800 GTS 640mb
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Extreme Music
Optical Drives: 16x16 Dual Layer Pioneer 111BK DVD RW
Operating System: Windows XP Home SP2 with Vista Upgrade
Power Supply: 620w Corsair ATX 2.2 SLI Ready
Warranty: 1 Yr Standard Return to Base Parts and Labour

price £1,712

Out of the motherboads I can choose from:

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe £156
ASUS P5N32 SLI Premium £176
ASUS P5W64S Professional £193
eVGA nForce 680i £191
ASUS p5N32 SLI SE £146

I dont know much about pc's but I dont know anything about motherboards so if anyone could help with that I'll be very gratefull.

With the powersupply i could get a Silverstone Zues 850w Quad SLI Certified for £195 instead of 620w one for £131.

graphics card wise I have the choice of the GTX instead for around £100 is it worth it?

Also a last note if anyone has any opinions on the company I will be very gratefull, I wont be ordering it for at least 2 weeks so plenty of time.

 

[Karanislove]

I would say take Tagan Power supply to secure ur future, in case u buy another graphics card to make it SLI... Coz ur current power is not enough to fuel 2 graphics card..

Im also getting XP home,

Try nd see if u can get xp pro instead coz pro version is very good in security..

I could get a E6700 but its a £147 difference would it be worth it?

Nope! u wont see much difference.... so go with E6600...

Memory -2GB Corsair DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX

You have to invest in extra RAM stick if you any plan of buying vista...

 

[smeg]

Thanks for all the info im pretty set on what im buying now, if anyone has anything else to add or to say about the company please let me know as I am not getting it for a few weeks yet.