With just 10 days to go before I bite the bullet and fork over some money.
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Refresher:@
Ok, You may have noticed over the past 2 months I've been bombarding these forums with questions and comparisons between various products, you might even remember me asking for a overview of a "similar" spec a while ago. (And here is why I started planning so early :P it shows me what's around, what its worth and more importantly gives me time to change my mind!). Here's why:
Plan/TimeFrame: Start of September I will be going back to Uni, and will need to sort myself out a new PC for use, I plan to build this in August to give me a chance to make sure that everything works properly before taking it to Uni (This and I decided it would make far more sense to build it at home rather than send 20 boxes to my Uni address and expect none of them to get damaged.)
The reason I am looking for opinions/advise now is because I have been advised that some of the items listed in the proposed spec will take up to 3 weeks to arrive and I intend to go down and collect everything from store in one go.
Budget: roughly £1200 ex VAT
Location: England/UK
Site of prefference: http://www.novatech.co.uk
Things I already have:
External USB Creative SoundBlaster Live 24-bit soundcard,
Microsoft Media Centre remote control,
Samsung 2233RZ 120hz 22" 3D screen + glasses, (I'm not opposed to selling this so I can get 2 screens the same.)
Samsung 226BW 60Hz 22" screen,
(Rather battered) Logitech USB Headset (Current comparable is: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p...81-000262.html ) - This needs replacing but as I'm already over budget may have to wait a few months (That or annoy the girlfriend enough to get her to buy me a headset :P).
What the machine will be doing:
I will need to be running up to 5 simultainious Virtual Machines (typically 2 or 3) running graphically based simulations, a little bit of graphical design in Adobe and playing WoW with FRAPS and pretty much everything maxxed out pretty much whenever I'm not at Uni, browsing the web, listening to music watching movies all that jazz.
Expected average usage while gaming:
- Web Browser / Ventrilo + Messenger programs on screen 1, game on screen 2 (center), Movie on screen 3
Expected work usage:
- VM Workstation x2 on Screen 1, Web browser on screen 2, VM Workstation on screen 3
^- Assuming Screen 1 = Left, Screen 2 = Centre, Screen 3 = Right.
Gaming includes:
World of Warcraft, StarCraft:BroodWar, StarCraft2, Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, Crysis2, StarWars:The Old Republic, StarWars:Knights of the Old Republic, BioShock, BioShock2, Halo, Halo2, Stargate:Resistance, WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne.
What I'm looking for from you:
Information!:
Will there be any significant advancements that would change the specs of the machine I buy between now and september?
What suggestions for upgrades do you have, and can you build it cheaper.
Additional opinions on other hardware:
I need to try and reduce the build cost somehow, by substituting various components for cheaper ones with close to the same performance.
Q. Why am I using Novatech?
A. Becuase they have all the bonuses of being an online store as well as having outlets and repair centres I can physically take things back to if they don't work properly.
A2. They offer free lifetime technical support.
A3. Dad has a business account with them so everything I do gets fast tracked! As well as the VAT being refunded pretty much automagaically. Since I do do alot of work for him on my machines. (Main reason for me not going elsewhere)
A4. In the extreamly unlikely event that any components don't work properly, they actually have "stores" I can walk into and get same day replacements/repairs.
P.S I also tend to play WoW in fullscreen windowed mode! When not running in 3D.
P.S.S. Unfortunately unless a mod can reverse all the edit's I've done to the original thread there's no way to see what my last planned setup was