First build

Menelaun · 31-03-2013 4:31pm #1

1. What is your budget? 1000 - 1200

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming (Rome total war 2 will be my bench mark)

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? Yes

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? no

5. Do you need a monitor? yes

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? wireless card monitor keyboard mouse speakers

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? No

8. How can you pay? Credit card

9. When are you purchasing? May

10. If you need help building it, where are you based ? Kildare

BloodBath · 01-04-2013 9:03am

The script isn't working so I couldn't give you a nice table and links but this is a good build for less than €1200 leaving you with enough to get a keyboard on amazon since the german layout is different. Site

Change the case to this version. It has the toolless drive bays.

Menelaun · 01-04-2013 10:07pm

How is the delivery time ?

Gumbi · 01-04-2013 10:25pm

Menelaun wrote: »

How is the delivery time ?

3/4 days excluding weekend.

Menelaun · 02-04-2013 9:12am

Thanks for the replies I wouldnt have been able to put a rig together I'm clueless at this stuff lads I'll hopefully be getting this rig at the end of May

BloodBath · 02-04-2013 9:20am

Come back before you order as there might be some new hardware and/or price changes.

Menelaun · 02-04-2013 10:22am

Will do and one last question I take the mid tower is the shinobi is the case I'm changing from as I said before I have really no clue

BloodBath · 02-04-2013 5:23pm

The script is working again so I can give you a nice table with links thanks to fluffy

Gumbi · 02-04-2013 5:33pm

Is there any particular reason as to why RAM has gone upoin rice in the past month or so? Around Jan/Feb, 8GB of 1600mhz RAM was about 38/39 euro, now it's just over 50 (with 1333mhz RAM being found around the above price, ~46 euro).

BloodBath · 02-04-2013 5:39pm

Supply and demand I guess. Who knows. At least it's not as bad as the hard drive price explosion a couple of years back. I was about to pull the trigger on buying a 2tb drive and they trebled in price in 2 weeks.

Menelaun · 02-04-2013 10:32pm

Can I pay for them to pre assemble the rig?

Eboggles · 02-04-2013 10:38pm

Menelaun wrote: »

Can I pay for them to pre assemble the rig?

You can, but you should try and build it yourself. You'll know a lot more about your hardware and you'll also be able to tell all your mates that you built your own gaming computer

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Loads of us here would happily help you build it, for free.

If you really don't want to do it though, they offer a building service for €20; just search "recher - zusammenbau" or something along those lines.

Menelaun · 02-04-2013 10:42pm

I plan to buy it just before the leaving and have it arrive during it so I love to get it pre built:D the site is great for"studying" though as I am taking german:P Cant wait to get this computer and just game for the summer!
Thanks for all the help guys

tuxy · 02-04-2013 10:43pm

BloodBath wrote: »

Supply and demand I guess. Who knows. At least it's not as bad as the hard drive price explosion a couple of years back. I was about to pull the trigger on buying a 2tb drive and they trebled in price in 2 weeks.

Prices had gone ridiculously low. I think the maker have cut back on production slightly to counteract this. It's still cheap imo.
The HDD thing was different where lots of stock was destroyed due to a natural disaster.

Gumbi · 02-04-2013 11:05pm

tuxy wrote: »

Prices had gone ridiculously low. I think the maker have cut back on production slightly to counteract this. It's still cheap imo.
The HDD thing was different where lots of stock was destroyed due to a natural disaster.

HDD prices are almost back to their pre-Thai-flood levels. I saw a 3TB drive on Amazon for 90 something pounds (which was beaten by Flubit for 82 pounds delivered! - great site btw).

I distinctly remember there bring terabyte drives for under 45 euro in that time.

As a side note, I'm seriously considering getting a http://www.hardwareversand.de/58+cm+%2823%29+/53650/Dell+UltraSharp+U2312HM.article through Flubit for 170 pounds delivered, but I'm not sure it's justified over my current syncmaster p2250 (21.5 inch 1080p). Would the quality be much better?

BloodBath · 05-04-2013 9:13am

The 2tb drives were around €70 and went up to nearly €200. Yeah I know it was because of the flooding. Everyone except Samsung make their drives in thailand and their factory's and equipment were pretty much destroyed.

Menelaun · 06-06-2013 9:01pm

So before I go and order this thing on the a few days after the 19th is there any improvements to made to any parts of the build

again all your help is very much appreciated

BloodBath · 07-06-2013 2:44am

Changed it up a fair bit. A better graphics card, case and cpu. That Xeon cpu is an ivy bridge quad core with hyper threading. It's pretty much the same chip as the i7 3770, which costs €267, clocked 100mhz lower and without an igp. A few other changes to the build as well.

Case is available in black + silver or plain black as well.

Item|Price
Samsung SSD 840 120GB SATA 6Gb/s|€81.99
WD Caviar Blue 1TB 6Gb's|€57.27
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 500W|€53.77
Intel Xeon E3-1230v2, boxed, LGA1155|€205.99
8GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws PC3-10667U CL9|€55.00
ASRock B75 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€66.14
Club 3D Radeon HD 7950 13Series, 3GB GDDR5, AMD Radeon HD 7950, PCI- Express|€263.42
LG 22EA53VQ-P|€129.56
Sharkoon Fire Glider Gaming Mat|€6.99
ASUS PCE-N15|€14.90
Wavemaster MX-3+|€39.99
MS Windows 8 64bit (SB-Version) Englisch|€85.11
Sharkoon Drakonia Gaming Laser Mouse|€24.39
Cooltek Antiphon White, ohne Netzteil|€69.66
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€1173.17

First build

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