Hate to boast, but...

ThreadKiller

Last night I finished building my PC

160GB HDD
1.5GB RAM
1800XP Processor
64MB Video
Live! Sound
DVD Rom
DVD Burner
Firewire
TV/Radio Card
XP Pro


This is me & I'm doing a happy dance

s8n

how much did you build that beast for??

ThreadKiller

Been buying the components over about eight months & upgrading as I went, I reckon all in all it cost me about €4,000.

Next step is to add another hdd & set up Raid.

longword

There's always a bigger machine.

Wook

you consider this 'boasting' ? 4000 euros for this low spec machine ?

ThreadKiller

OK Wook, What do you use for the *occasional* email & game ?

yop

Great PC but miles to expensive --

Just got for a mate the following from Dell

2.4Gig
1GB Ram
120GB HDD
17"
64MB Video
Live! Sound
DVD Burner
Firewire
XP Pro

for 2800 delivered with 3 year warranty.

If I was to add in the rest of the hardware you have there I still would get it for almost a grand cheaper, with the monitor, better processor and 3 year warranty - as I said good pc but not for that money.

Gluck with it anyway

Wook

Originally posted by ThreadKiller
OK Wook, What do you use for the *occasional* email & game ?

1.1GHZ Athlon
180GB HD
GF4 TI 4400 128MB
soundblaster Audigy
640MB sdram
19Inch screen CRT
21 Inch screen CRT
Cambridge soundworks speakers surround
250MB zipper
stupid 56Kb Diamond modem
Realtek Nic
Sony Burner
DVD
52Speed CDrom

Less then 1000 Euros

Kali

Err is there a point to this thread?
And is there a point in having 1.5Gb of RAM?

ironape

yeah, wouldn't you have to be running a couple of instances of photoshop and playin a game and rendering a 3d image (or lots of other stuff) to even USE all that RAM? I have 256Mb and I NEVER have a problem.

Ape

logic1

Not much to boast about. If I had spent 4,000 on that I'd be ashamed of myself tbh.

.logic.

astrofool

u should always be ashamed of yourself logic

po0k

Did you buy every item from Peats and Compustore individually?

You got fleeced mate.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by ironape
yeah, wouldn't you have to be running a couple of instances of photoshop and playin a game and rendering a 3d image (or lots of other stuff) to even USE all that RAM? I have 256Mb and I NEVER have a problem.

Ape

Actually no. I find a big difference in having more than 256mb of ram both in games and in many of the applications I use. Rendering 3D stuff can easily use hundreds of mb of ram without even trying. Likewise working on stuff for print you could have lots of very large 50+mb images. 256mb of ram is no way enough for that kind of work. Even some games like OFP and Falcon will see a performance improvment with 512mb.

Incidentally 4k is way too much for that rig. It should have cost about 2.5k at most buying new. I hope there was a very good monitor in there for 4k. :eek:

BTW What kind of magic computer do you have that never has a problem.

Oh yeah and Wook can you break that down for us and let us know where you got all that stuff? :eek:

Wook

was an original machine bought for little money and then slowly upgraded to where i am now.
Loads of second hand stuff in there as well.
but it all works and i am happy
actually to make a small point, i am not boasting about my rig, but merely answering the original posters question.

Gerry

Originally posted by ThreadKiller
Last night I finished building my PC

160GB HDD
1.5GB RAM
1800XP Processor
64MB Video
Live! Sound
DVD Rom
DVD Burner
Firewire
TV/Radio Card
XP Pro


This is me & I'm doing a happy dance

Hilarious, I want to know where you bought the parts.
You don't say what type of ram you have. For that price,
I would have at expected dual ddr, and an XP2800 chip.
What sort of video card is it? Again for 4000 I'd expect
a 9700 pro, and widescreen tv thrown in.

For 1900 euro, I've recently built the following machine for a friend:

p4 2.4 ( 533 bus )
512mb pc2700 ddr
80gb western digital 7200 with 8mb cache
48x cdrw
16x dvd
gf4 ti4200 128mb
zip 250 internal
logitech cordless mouse
ms keyboard
lg flatron 19" monitor

I was wondering to myself whether this was a lukewarm deal or what, but your pc makes it look like a steal

( Any extra components your pc has could be bought for about 500 - 600 euro extra roughly , but some of your components are worse...

Kali, I was originally thinking there was no point to this thread, but perhaps it will show people that it is possible to be ripped off this severely, and to check around for prices first

BigEejit

Would it be safe to say that if you spent 2000 euro buying stuff from the cheaper vendors you would have a fairly decent and up to date machine, and if you spent much more than that you bought either a server or you were done.?

Gerry

Yeah, but you will only be happy if you spend that 2 grand on stuff that is worth spending it on. Identify your priorities. A lot of people forget about a good monitor. Also a faster 80gb drive may be a better buy than a slow 120gb drive, if you know that the 120 gigs would only fill up through laziness. ( For example ). Think carefully about how much you will be using the extra features provided by each peripheral, and the performance of each core component. Like do you really need the fastest chip, when it is much worse value than the 2nd fastest, etc, etc.

leeroybrown

160GB HDD
1.5GB RAM
1800XP Processor
64MB Video
Live! Sound
DVD Rom
DVD Burner
Firewire
TV/Radio Card
XP Pro

Isn't exactly the most detailed spec and even stretching my imagination I find it hard to see how you stretched to €4000 for that.

64 Mb video means the Max the card could be is a Ti4200.

Live! sound???? (SB Live 5.1? ... maybe for €4000 you got in an orchestra to play )

1.5 Gig of RAM. At current DDR prices thats a bit much. I've 768 Mb of PC2100 and it's very rarely all used. PC3500 I hope?

And the ditails as to what the Case, PSU, Monitor(s) are?

_sheep

4k, christ m8, must be a gold case ya ?

Ryo Hazuki

LOL 4000!

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by Wook
1.1GHZ Athlon
180GB HD
GF4 TI 4400 128MB
soundblaster Audigy
640MB sdram
19Inch screen CRT
21 Inch screen CRT
Cambridge soundworks speakers surround
250MB zipper
stupid 56Kb Diamond modem
Realtek Nic
Sony Burner
DVD
52Speed CDrom

Less then 1000 Euros

wook id b impressed if u got that 4 under a grand
a 180 gb hd would cost the earth
& the graphics & sound uve got there arent cheap either
add to that the 2 monitors u claim to have
theres actually no way thats under a grands worth

banbutcher

Hate to boast, but...

hate to laugh but.....muahahahahahaha

4000 euro on that!! they saw you commin!! do you have a tattoo on your forehard sayin sucker?

ps tehehehe

milltown

Have you had a look at what you could have got from alienware.co.uk for that much wonga?

Kali

I reckon 4 grand would even get you a better pc in compustore..

RicardoSmith

I think he mean over the years hes spent 4k and hes finally happy with his current PC which is what he listed.

Lump

BLoody hell, you were robbed. I cant understand why you would spend such a huge amount of money on the daddy of all machines. Do you do a lot of high end graphics work, or video editing??

The bloody edit suites we use in college only cost about 5000 euro, they have two 21 inch screens. Not to mention the cost of the edit software and the OS.


One word robbed.



John

steve-hosting36

Me spend 4k on my new baby

CoolerMaster ATC-201 Midi Tower
CoolerMaster 420W Silent PSU
Coolermaster AMD Silent CPU Fan
Asus A7N8X DeLuxe M'board
AMD XP 2700 2.16GHz 333MHz FSB+ Fan
2 x 512Mb DDR RAM
2 x Western Digital 120GB 8Mb Cache 7200 RPM
Adaptec ATA RAID Card 2400A
Dual on-board 10/100 NIC
DVD ROM 16 Speed LG
Philips DVDRW228K DVD & Internal CD Re-writer
3.5" 1.44Mb Standard Floppy Drive
Iomega 750Mb Internal Zip Drive
ATI Radeon 9700 128Mb Dual Monitor
2 x Iiyama 4611UT 18" TFT OSD XGA
Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical
Creative Labs Ins 5300 Surround S'nd
Windows XP Professional Ed. OEM

ThreadKiller

OK, maybe I need to clarify...

Over the years I've built my way up spending probably up to €4,000 on components. There's also a 23" widescreen TVT in there.

Wook

Originally posted by whosurpaddy
wook id b impressed if u got that 4 under a grand

as i said before , some of these parts are second hand , and if you look around you , you do find cheap parts..one of the Hard drives for example actually comes from somebody of boards, also the zipper and so on...easily under 1000 euros

bricks

While you're at it, how can you include a widescreen TV as being part of your PC setup. Its not on the original list either.
What else is included in the 4000Euros?
Could it be that parts that are no longer in the PC are included. e.g. If it started out life as a 200Mhz Pentium 1 and was upgraded to what you have now then all the bits that were added down the years... This could explain the additional cost.