Buying a new rig

Aldaris

Right, upgrade thread time. Have about £1000 to spend I reckon. Was aiming for at least an i7, RADEON 4870X2 and ridic fast overlocked 4 gig of memory. I need a brand new HD, motherboard and case as well. Go go forum techies!

lolfighter

By now, I think we need a subforum for these.

MedHead

Would anyone visit it?

lolfighter

Maybe. >_>

Spooge

Your requirements for that budget are a bit extreme but here's the best I could find since I don't shop for the UK:

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=341982&sku=153348" target="_blank">Foxconn TSAA-891 ATX Case</a> £33.99 inc VAT

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=253098&sku=Q76272" target="_blank">Antec Truepower 650W ATW PSU</a> £77.99 inc VAT

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=304214&sku=Q130231" target="_blank">WD Caviar SE/640GB SATAII HDD</a> £53.82 inc VAT

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=333214&sku=138910" target="_blank">Sapphire HD4870 512MB GPU</a> £200.63 inc VAT (don't bother with two, it's not worth the cash)

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=335889&sku=Q150499" target="_blank">Kingston 6GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM</a> £117.99 inc VAT

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=338420&sku=153121" target="_blank">Intel Core i7 920 / 2.66 GHz processor socket LGA1336</a> £239.99 inc VAT

<a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=338236&sku=138930" target="_blank">ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA1336 ATX MOBO</a> £279.99 inc VAT

Total: £1,004.41

P.S. your VAT taxes suck the big one in a hard way. That's £131.01 of rape right there.

P.S.S. you didn't ask for an OS but I'll stick Vista64 on here anyway. You can figure out how to sell a cousin or something to pay for it <a href="http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=311586&CatId=0" target="_blank">Vista Ultimate 64bit</a> £171.99 inc VAT

Aldaris

Might just buy bits now, keep them nice and safe somewhere, and pay rest at end of Feb, when I'll have twice the budget to play with.

Spooge

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In general, computer and computer part costs decrease over time. You'd be better off holding your cash until your ready to spend it all. You'll probably spend a bit less that way.

Epidemic

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Possible, but the Pound has literally been Pounded in the ground, I do not know how much it has manifested into the UK computer parts prices.

Here's my tentative math

Take the kingstons ram

Newegg price: 119.99$ * 1,05 because newegg is cheaper in general
Misco price: 93.90£

126/94 = 1,32 dollar per pound

Current exchange rate between $ and £ is 1,42

Hmm, seems I'm wrong, I'm not sure they even are comparable, but I tried! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />