Building a PC

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

I'd rather poke my eyes with needles than go to EMit. Biggest cowboys this side of the wild west.

I know someone who used to work for Time and he said a lot of the stuff Emit had was reject stuff Time got back from customers because it didn't work and they'd had to eventually replace it when they failed to repair it. Doesn't sound like something I'd want to consider even waving a barge pole at from a distance.

[entwisi]

I've only been in Emit twice, both time with Mick and Mez

I'd claim it was only to relieve the boredom when I was off work with my appendix last year but I actually bought a cable from them so I can't[1]


Otherwise I wouldn't touch them either.

As for P-Bs I've seen a few in my time and they may be built so you can't easily swap bits about but in general, those I have seen have been well put together and seem to last quite well.



[1] I didn't go there to get it but I did need one and they happened to have one for a quid so I would have been daft not to buy it.

[chav1]

oooh somone mentioned an incident with pc world and a printer cable , i assume they wanted you to buy one as it dosnt come with the printer lol

i think pc world charge between 5 and 10 quid for a printer usb cable but my tip of the day is screw them and go to poundland or any other pounshop and get one for a quid , exacly the same and you can also buy usb extension cables for a quid too for if you want your printer further away from your pc

[***Mr D***]

Originally Posted by chav1

oooh somone mentioned an incident with pc world and a printer cable , i assume they wanted you to buy one as it dosnt come with the printer lol

i think pc world charge between 5 and 10 quid for a printer usb cable but my tip of the day is screw them and go to poundland or any other pounshop and get one for a quid , exacly the same and you can also buy usb extension cables for a quid too for if you want your printer further away from your pc

Ohh no it was better than that.

I purchased a Printer and in big writing on the front it said USB, I mistakingly though that it must be included and was not advised other wise when buying, I then got home went to set up my new printer and Guess what No Lead.

Upon my return to PC world I was not very happy and as you do complained, to be surrounded by 3 young muppets arguing with me, when I said I presumed it had one in as it says USB in big letters on the front, he remarked, well it says PC on the side do you think you get a computer free aswell. I nearly smacked him. Instead I just let them and most of the customer in the shop at the time that PC world are complete rubbish (In a french way)

As for the lead £1.00 in good old accy centre.

[WillowTheWhisp]

The thing about PC world is if you know what you want and what they have serves the purpose and the price is right it's OK - like the stacks of CDs or something. It's when you approach one of the members of staff expecting an intelligent reply to a query that you can rapidly lose the will to live.

[Mick]

If your looking at a high speck pc you should think of a lot bigger harddrive than 74 gig more like sata 400+ gig twin mirror or raid drives
80 gig is a very small drive these days

[***Mr D***]

Originally Posted by mick

If your looking at a high speck pc you should think of a lot bigger harddrive than 74 gig more like sata 400+ gig twin mirror or raid drives
80 gig is a very small drive these days

Was thinking of the 74gig for a fast drive - 10.000rpm

Might just go for a simple one now though, been recomended this one.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=226863

[Mick]

Just make sure the motherboard you buy will support sata drives

[shillelagh]

I find Creative computers down at Road End on the other side of Haslingden best. They build it to what you want. Bro bought a computer from there before xmas and they built it £50 cheaper than from PC World!

[***Mr D***]

Originally Posted by mick

Just make sure the motherboard you buy will support sata drives

Choice of 3.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MB-016-IN

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MB-062-GI

OR

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=505256

[Mick]

the first and third look fine not sure about the second though
the first looks good i know its a bit expensive but it will support everything you need

[***Mr D***]

Shoudnt be to long now until I get all the bits.

Here Is what I have settled For.


Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache,

640MB XFX 8800GTS XT PCI-E (x16), Mem 1700MHz, GPU 530MHz, 96 Streams, 2 x Dual Link DVI/HDTV

600w Seasonic S12-600 SLi Ready Silent PSU 2xPCI-E 4xSATA 120mm Fan ATX1.3/2.01

Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX

2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP

320Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) HDT725032VLA360 Deskstar T7K500, SATA300, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ

Antec Nine Hundred/Ultimate Gamer Case no PSU

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual Core / Core2Duo Ready

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound for CPU and Chipset Coolers

Sony AW-G170ASV Silver 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer OEM

Now all I have to do is build it.

Anyone up for helping if I need it.

[entwisi]

so go on, whats it cost up to now?

Putting them together physically is teh easy bit, getting everything installed and working to its best is teh fun (and time consuming) bit

[panther]

I think pc world is a right rip off, found cheaper stuff else where

[***Mr D***]

Originally Posted by entwisi

so go on, whats it cost up to now?

Have A Guess.