Tiger
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Intel i5 2400 (Sandy Bridge) Gaming PC - Samsung 2TB HD, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GT220 Graphics, Antec 600 Case, DVDRW+-, N150 WIFI, Windows 7 Home Premium plus more:
Compsol's Antec 600 Ultimate Gaming PC - Intel i5 2400 Sandy Bridge CPU / 8.0GB DDR3 / Samsung Spinpoint 2TB Huge Storage HDD, Nvidia Geforce 220 1GB Graphics and Windows 7 Home Premium, plus many more features. See below!
* CPU: Intel i5 Sandy Bridge CPU (1155) and retail cooler, 3.1GHz, 6MB Cache
* Motherboard: ASUS P8H67-M LE (Supports 2nd Gen Intel 1155 i3/i5/i7 CPU's, Intel H67 Chipset, 2x DIMM - max 16GB, dual channel memory support, 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16, 1 x PCIe 2.0 x4, 2 x PCI, Integrated VGA, 2xSATA3, 4xSATA 2, RAID support, 2x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0, Micro ATX Form Factor)
* RAM: 8.0GB DDR3 1333MHz (PC3-10600) Kingston Memory
* HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 2TB Hard Drive 204UI
* DVDRW+-: Dual Layer 22x with Lightscribe (Samsung, with Nero software)
* Case: Antec Six Hundred 600 Gaming Case - Bottom mounted 500w PSU, well ventilated for extra efficient cooling, windowed "moonroof" top panel, windowed side panel, 6 x internal 3.5" bays, 3 x 5.25" bays, front USB and Audio ports, 491mm (H) x 212mm (W) x 492mm (D)
* Graphics: Nvidia GeForce G220 1GB Dedicated Graphics, VGA, DVI, HDMI, CUDA and PhysX Technology, Hi Def support, powerful video card
* Wifi and LAN: Edimax N150 Wireless G 802.11 and onboard Realtek Gigabit LAN ethernet port
* Sound: 8 channel Realtek High Definition Audio
* Logitech Quality Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
* Windows 7 Home Premium installed and configured for out of the box use!
* 12 Months Send and Collect Hardware Warranty (Parts and Labour)
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Sam
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You going to be using it for gaming?
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TheCrow
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quote:
Originally posted by Tiger
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce G220 1GB Dedicated Graphics, VGA, DVI, HDMI, CUDA and PhysX Technology, Hi Def support, powerful video card
You wont be playing too many games at good settings with this graphics card. It's shit.
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Russ
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no name PSU, your money i guess
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Dom
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As said, PSU could be an issue and the graphics card is a bit poverty spec when you consider an old 9800GT is more powerful. Apart from that it looks ok...
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Tiger
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I'll be using it for photo editing, maybe some music software on a FireWire external module too.
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moka
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quote:
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I'll be using it for photo editing, maybe some music software on a FireWire external module too.
Erm, does it have firewire? Or is that why you stated 'external module'?
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moka
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Also, seeing as the case is made by Antec, whos to say the PSU is not also Antec (which is a respectable psu brand)... You would think this would be the case... Can you check?
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John
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No name PSU's aren't all that bad tbh.
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by moka
Also, seeing as the case is made by Antec, whos to say the PSU is not also Antec (which is a respectable psu brand)... You would think this would be the case... Can you check?
If it was antec, it would say antec.
John, i agree to some extent, but shit ones do die quite often, and if you've got expensive components in there better to spend the extra £50 and be safe(r)
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John
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I've never had a PSU of any type fail in a way that damaged any components, I've had both expensive and cheap ones stop working.
I mainly think of the likes of Dell when I say it doesn't matter, the components in their PSU's are made just good enough to work and for the amount out there, they don't fail very often and I've never seen one take out anything else when it has.
If it's a no expense spared overclocking build then fair enough, if it's something like this that £50 could be better spent elsewhere imo.
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Russ
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I just think, if you're buying an "enthusiast" pc such as the above, cutting corners on the thing that powers it is silly.
Maybe it's over cautious, but still better safe(r) then sorry.
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by moka
Also, seeing as the case is made by Antec, whos to say the PSU is not also Antec (which is a respectable psu brand)... You would think this would be the case... Can you check?
Most Antec cases don't come with a PSU. Obviously some do, but the ones that don't you will find a lot of companies will just stick in a cheapie one and use the case as one of the main selling points rather than the PSU (as a lot of people aren't clued up about PSUs and such).
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Tiger
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I have had a PSU go before to be honest on a cheap tower, I replaced it with another and there was no damage done to the system.
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