New PC time
 

Time for a new PC again, what do you guys thinks of this base rig, I can't find or think of anyway to beat this price bar an ebay special for this type of spec. Even if I built it myself I think I would struggle to beat £450 inc VAT ?

Basics:
CIT Shadow ATX Case
Intel Core i5 2500K Processor overclocked to 4.6GHz
Asus P8Z68-V LE Motherboard
4GB PC3-10666 DDR3 Memory
AMD Radeon 6670 1GB Graphics Card
1000GB SATA 7200rpm Hard Disk
24x Sony DVD-RW Drive
500watt Basic EZCool PSU
Onboard High Definition Audio
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OEM

Probably needs a juicier vid card but I'm not a massive PC gamer anymore.

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Fusion-Shadow.html

Components can be customised of course, for not alot more, could have Corsair RAM etc.

Got a couple of mag bestbuys to.

cmon need some opinions before I decide to buy it...

In my view perfect buy,but i would add more RAM,if you are looking to do more demanding programs like AutoCad etc.Plus SSD will help too

But anyway great spec for this good price.

Jura

Nice find, I'm tempted myself! :thumb:

thanks, order goin in tomorrow then ;)

That is very good value. Best match I could get is £575. I would say that the RAM is really low for modern day computing and the graphics card is already, pretty much obsolete.

Other than that it should be a good computer. This all really depends on what you intend to use it for.

Thats a good price considering hdd's have gone through the roof, that one would be worth around 150 quid on its own :eek:

Tony:D

I upped the RAM to Corsair, a better case, better PSU for more HDD's, bluetooth, card reader all in for 575

nice :D

the PSU and Vid card stuck out for me, good to see you have already sorted the PSU :thumbsup:

ATI 6950 is quite a good card for the money

ATi 5950 will be good too matey,if you find used ATi 5870 take it,i've before this and has been just amazing in any games


Jura

Not a big PC gamer, so anything will do really. Current PC has a 9800GT lol.

But still better than Intel HD :Whatever_ in some PC which people selling on eBay as claiming its gaming PC


Jura

Well this graphics card is the equivalent of that.

Sounds good - although I've never really got on with ATI cards. I'm an NVidia man myself.

I was to until the recent driver release which borked my cpanel :mad:

Noway, 9800 is uber old, the raddy kicks its ass in pretty much all areas. And its DX11 9800 is only DX10.

I specc'd up the PC I'd want from that site (fancy as quiet a pc as possible with a BF3 busting gfx card). Ended up at just shy of a grand :o which is quite a fair chunk for just a base unit.

I'm sure it is, but my remit was to get the best spec for circa £500 :)

Your sub £500 new pc will be better than my chugging old Dell that's for sure.
I so rarely spend money on a PC I thought I'd see how much one would cost that would last me another 4 years :D
Will be interested to hear how quick it arrives Bio, and how it performs :thumb:

8-12 days hopefully :thumb:

Looks like the price has gone up in that link; Its £510inc VAT now.

lol so it has, prolly all the people I've mentioned it to have gone out to buy it then. Market share n all that ;)

Check this link then;

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,3018-7.html

9800 and 6670 are the same tier

In real world terms 6670 is better, anyway its irrelevant to me PC gaming is a mugs game.

Has it arrived yet? Noticed that ChillBlast were recommended in the Mail on Sundays Live mag for uber PC's!

8-12 business days mate, bought it on the 4th.

Well I've been on a bit of a journey with this one, fired it up all ok then bsod when finalising win7 setup :/ ok 2nd time round, then the gfx card kept crashing and resetting itself :mad: Chillblast were on the ball n sent out a replacement card which never arrived, thanks to royal mail :rolleyes: Card #2 was then sent thx again to CBlast which then arrived late again thx to the twats @ RMail. Anwyway that fixed the problem and I can report it now absolutely flies. Ran imgburntest on it oc'd @ 4.6ghz idle temps 40-45c, 32c stock on air, happy bunny :D I love the EZ bios on these new ASUS mobos, makes tweaking a joy.

Nice :-)

Just heard that my Chillblast machine will arrive before Xmas as they have taken on more staff - hurrah!!

Cool :) Hopefully yours will just work when you get it lol. To be honest any PC that I've had delivered in the post has had some sort of problem. The couriers just don't seem to care too much about the parcels these days.

Word of advice, even though they have taken on more staff, getting through to them at the moment is a right ball ache. 10-15min wait on average, so use email to their sales addy if its not urgent.