Nolan Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 I think he meant 1-2 days later than the day he ordered, which is also 1-2 days earlier than the ETA.
Daniel Posted December 17, 2008 Author Posted December 17, 2008 Just checking It occured to me last night, when i assemble all this, do i do it all in one go? or put one component in and switch it on then another etc. plus will my vista ultimate just accept all the new hardware or will it need reinstalling?
Ten10 Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Just checking It occured to me last night, when i assemble all this, do i do it all in one go? or put one component in and switch it on then another etc. plus will my vista ultimate just accept all the new hardware or will it need reinstalling? Yes, even though I didn't pay extra for delivery there have been times when I expect something to arrive 5 days later i.e Friday but then it comes on a tuesday. In terms of assembly you won't get very far without everything being in there, you might just get a few beeps and nothing else. As far as I know windows doesn't take kindly to new hardware and you normally have to reactivate windows if you replace so many different components. With xp it was that you can change about 6 components or 1 network card + 4 components before you'd have to re activate your os. Not sure what Vista does.
Nolan Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Major revisions like CPU or Motherboard I think need reactivation. I'm not positive though, anyways if you assemble all at once you won't have to worry about reactivation.
Daniel Posted December 17, 2008 Author Posted December 17, 2008 How do you mean re-activation? what does that mean? do i just put a code in or do i need the disc?
Raining_again Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 You usually do need to reformat windows with new hardware. When you initially install there's a lot of structure stuff in the OS which is based on the hardware config. Sometimes you get off with it. I upgraded my AMD processor from a 3700 single core to an opteron dual core (server chip) and it worked ok. Worth a backup of anything on your C partition just incase. ^^
Daniel Posted December 22, 2008 Author Posted December 22, 2008 After mentioning this to my dad he has said he is willing to put some money in for me to get a new computer. So does anyone know a good website or shop to buy a new computer? Will probably just need a base unit, no speakers or monitor or any of that palaver. Thanks
Pantsu Man! Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 There's ebuyer, scan, overclockers, aria. Those are the websites I know of.
Raining_again Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 PC specialist is good for customisation Overclockers are good for a big beast of a machine, or parts (maybe out of your price range if the parentals are paying?) but you definitely get quality from OC. Mesh have quality computers as well. Theres always the likes of Currys, but I find them a terrible rip-off and lacking in information
Nolan Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 What's your budget? Do you want a assembled PC, and perhaps add other components(like better GPU)? Do you want to get all, or most of the components and assemble them yourself?
Ten10 Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 Ebay search xblade to find some decent spec base units.
DCK Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 I'd say buy the first, and then put a seperate 70 pound Radeon 4670 in it instead of the chip it has now. It's much better than the second that way.
Daniel Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 Whats the benifit of having a 4670 over a 3450? Is it worth £70?
Nolan Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 What DCK said is your best course of action. Here's a quick price comparisonhttp://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-94-587.584.596-0 But my suggestion is that your try and spring for the 4830, it'll give you better performance and is great for the price. It's slightly cheaper at ebuyer rather than scan. Yes the card is worth it over the 3450. The 3450 will give you barely playable performance in most things outside of any games running on the Source engine.
Daniel Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 Its a bit annoying paying £545 for the computer which i will already be putting £200 towards and then paying another £90 for a graphics chip. Ill keep looking i think for a setup with a decent graphics card in it already
Nolan Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTVIEWPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=429593&APPS=241270,347017 It's 684 at the lowest though. Not a bad system at all though.
Ten10 Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 This was on ebay for £619 AMD PHENOM 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz X4 Quad-Core PROCESSOR (10GHz) 8GB DDR DUAL CHANNEL RAM 500GB SERIAL ATA S.A.T.A HARD DRIVE DUAL LAYER 20x MULTIFORMAT DVD REWRITER WITH LIGHSCRIBE CD REWRITER GE-FORCE 9500GT 1GB DEDICATED GRAPHICS WIRELESS WiFI BLUETOOTH 10/100 BROADBAND LAN PORT 6 USB PORTS VGA DVI HDMI PARALLEL PORT SERIAL PORT -- Whaaaaatttt SPEAKER CONNECTION MIC CONNECTION WINDOWS VISTA 64-BIT PLUS BOXED DISK AND LIFETIME LICENCE It goes on but seems pretty good to me. The 9500GT isn't show stopping in my personal opinion but the 1GB of memory on it will give it more performance than I know this GFX card to have.
McPhee Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 I'd stick with Dual Core unless you actually have specific need for a Quad Core CPU. You could get an Intel E7300, 4GB RAM, an ATi 4850 and a 500GB HDD for well under budget on PC Specialist.
DCK Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 Its a bit annoying paying £545 for the computer which i will already be putting £200 towards and then paying another £90 for a graphics chip. Ill keep looking i think for a setup with a decent graphics card in it already You shouldn't if you don't miss games now. The first is actually a fantastic deal, and you can always upgrade your graphics card later if you need it. It's really easy to do.
RoadKill Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 Intel E7300, 4GB RAM, an ATi 4850 This is literally the advice I would give.
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