New PC
I have spent the last couple of months costing up a new PC. As has been the norm for me I decided that I would once again build a system myself rather than buy a complete system. This mainly meant that I could pick and choose my own components and decide where I could cut costs and where I could pay a wee bit extra. I gave myself a budget of about £800 and this is what I've purchased:
Antec 1200 Full Tower Case
Antec CP-850 850watt Continuous Power Supply
ASRock M3A790GXH/128M Motherboard with onboard ATI HD3400 VGA
AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHZ Socket AM3 Black Edition Processor
OCZ Reaper HPC 4Gb DDR3 1600MHz (2x2Gb) Dual Channel Memory
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 32MB Cache Hard Drive
Optiarc AD-7241S / 24x Internal SATA DVD-SM Drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Free Upgrade To Windows 7 Ultimate E
I also bought a couple of extra 120mm case fans and a floppy drive; which I haven't installed. My total spend has come to approximately £780.
Before transferring ownership of my old PC to my Dad I took out the Western Digital 74GB Raptor drive that was in it and am using that on the new system as my boot drive.
I still have 2 purchases outstanding for the new PC but they will have to wait until I can get some cash together. I still need a GFX card and LCD monitor.
I have managed to get everything installed on the new system and have only really come across two niggles. ClockTraySkins doesn't seem to like Vista Ultimate 64bit and my wireless mouse isn't working. I also still need to christen the new PC.
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Oh, and my scanner doesn't work either...
Well you could always give it to me then ;-) The PC that is not the scanner. hehe
The PC now has a name:
Kreios
I'm also adding a new hard drive to the list of outstanding components.
My 74GB Raptor only has about 20GB of space left and I have yet to install Office; mainly because it hasn't arrived yet.
I'm going to get a new GFX card; probably the 2GB version of the Saphhire 4890 Vapor-X; which is about £200 from Pixmania.
I will then get either a 150GB or 300GB Raptor prior to the release of Windows 7. The 150GB is about £120 and the 300GB is about £170.
I will then, probably sometime in the New Year, look into buying at least 1, perhaps 2, LCD monitors. These will probably be about 22" in size. I'm liking the look of the Samsung ones at the moment. 2048 x 1152 natively.
and all of this you are giving to me? Awww you are a real mate ;-)
Just installed my GFX card this afternoon. Eventually, went with the 1GB version of the 4890 Vapor-X; cost £170. There is no real point in paying £30 more for the 2GB version.
Only just realised, as I was adding the GFX card to my PC spec list that I have actually received a different card to the one I'd ordered.
I had ordered the standard 850MHz version of the card but received the 870MHz factory overclocked version. Might be an error or it may just be that they're discontinuing the standard version. Either way, I'm happy.