PC for Sale

[bradc]

A friend of mine asked me to build a PC for him and just after I had bought all the parts he told me he had been made redundant and needed to put it off a few months.

Anyway, I have had the parts sitting here since Monday and I figured I might as well put them all together and try to sell them. I will offer it all on here for a week, then put it up on trademe.

Anyway, the specs are:

Intel C2D E6550 2.33ghz CPU
Asus P5K-SE Motherboard
2x Hynix 1gb DDR2-667 Ram
XFX 7600GS 256mb Graphics Card
Seagate 160gb SATA HDD
Asus 16x DVD+-RW
Procase CS17 Case
Microsoft Comfort 2000 Keyboard + Mouseset
Windows XP Pro

Normal wholesale for this is $1002, I'll sell it for $900, normal retail would be around $1150 or so.

It is of course customisable, if you want more space an extra Seagate 160gb hdd will be $45, and an extra Seagate 320gb will be $95. If you would like 4gb of ram, it will be another $65. To upgrade to a Gigabyte 8800GT Graphics Card (capable of playing any game out there) will be $300. To change to Vista Home will be about $50 less, I would suggest staying with XP though.

[djb160]

Geez man those specs are a bit vague. What are the specs/brands of mos components. Don't really agree with that 8800 playing any game either, but will play most well enough for the average user.

[bradc]

Put in the graphics card, hard drive and ram brand, but I don't really see how it was vague!

The 8800GT will play every game out there! Sure it may not do it on a 30" screen at max AA and AF settings, but on a normal screen at 1280x1024 or 1440x900 it will be able to play everything with reasonably high settings

[KHK]

brad, explain more to those not so familiar with hardware if they need so

motherboard
http://www.asus.co.nz/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=2067&modelmenu=1

CPU
http://stores.tomshardware.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=39569347/search=e6550/

what is the price difference between Kingston and Hynix ram?

Brad's pc price should be a good one in my opinion

I prefer XP, Vista slows down the machine

[djb160]

In spite of my bitching it IS a decent deal either way

[bradc]

Keith - I would argue that if someone needs to know about things like that, they should be smart enough to do the research on their own anyway :)

As for the ram, Kingston would be a couple of dollars more, not really worth it when the Hynix has a lifetime warranty (and never goes wrong anyway, they are the 2nd biggest maker)

[Goku]

Thats a great deal.... if you like Pentiums that is -_-

[KiwiTT]

I might get you to build one for me later in the year, wholesale. :D

I pay cash upfront so you will not be out of pocket though.

[bradc]

Goku - I was an AMD person a few years ago, but you just can't beat intel chipsets and intel cpu performance at the moment.

Richard - want this system? :)

[Fully]

How much for just the mother board, cpu and ram?
Throw thats windows crap away!

I use red hat, Fedora 8, ubuntu 8.04. and emulate windows when I want to game, with games that have no linux binaries.

[bradc]

About $150 less without windows :)

[KiwiTT]

Richard - want this system? :)No, thanks.

It is not the specs I will want.

Looking at Intel Quad Core. Nvidia 9xxx series. 8 Gb of RAM. 4 x 1 TB HDDs

Will research over the coming months as to the actual specs.

[Fully]

No thanks!
Would really like to spend that sort of money on new wheels
http://www.buywheelstoday.com/images_products/L_3940.jpg
or
http://www.magandturbo.com/pages/imagelibrary/w_konig_v01.jpg


No, thanks.

It is not the specs I will want.

Looking at Intel Quad Core. Nvidia 9xxx series. 8 Gb of RAM. 4 x 1 TB HDDs

Will research over the coming months as to the actual specs.

What are you building?

[bradc]

I think he is planning on going to the Moon or maybe Mars?

[Fully]

lol will need more than that then :P

[Ryan]

lol will need more than that then :P

They managed to get to the moon in '69 on one hell of a lot less than what's in Brad's PC /Hmmm

[KiwiTT]

What are you building?

4 x 1 TB HDD will allow me to RAID 5 it.

8 Gb will allow me you use Virtualisation.

Quad Core will give me plenty of CPU

98xx 1 Gb NVIDIA will give me plenty of Graphics power.

64-bit OS as well of course.

[bradc]

Raid 5 isn't so good for boot unless you get a proper hardware raid card. I'd suggest a pair of Raptors for boot and large drives for storage in an ideal world.

[Turbo_Steve]

TBH If you're spending that sort of money I'd look at a pair of SSD's for boot (yes, I know the Raptors are often faster.....but the SSDs are still dead fast when striped and are sooo much quieter and cooler!)

Rather than use a RAID array on my PC, I've got a seperate file server with a hardware stripe-set that is mirrored (using windows) onto a USB drive.
It's setup with a monster system cache, and with Gb networking seems to positively fly! It's probably not as fast as direct disk access on a per-machine basis, but streaming HD video to several clients it trots along nicely with no hiccups. Unless you're actually doing video editing or loads of bulk file copies, (or, of course, playing games) then having my precious music collection, Video collection and family photos and documents on a remote box has saved me a lot of hassle time and time again.

I'm also reasonably aggressive with the file permissioning, so when I HAVE contracted a virus, it's effects we extremely well contained. I lost the host machine in question, but what was precious to me was safe.

The trouble is with Games.....man...they just need so much!
I want to play new games...but I cant honestly justify that 8800GT when the car needs wheel alignment, and oil change and some body work!

[djb160]

I just realised yesterday that a couple of high end graphics cards cost a similar amount to a couple of garretts, WTF.

[bradc]

I've got an 'interesting' setup here.

In my desktop use pc I've got 2x 15K SAS drives in Raid 0 for Vista boot, and a 10K SAS drive for XP Pro boot. I've got a 6 port Adaptec PCI-X Raid 5 SATA card with 6x 250gb's on it for storing all of my music, application installs, photo's, misc data, movies and tv shows including my favourites that I watch again and again like top gear and metallica concerts :)

In my server I have a pair of 80gb's in Raid 1 for boot, 2x 6 port Adaptec PCI-X Raid 5 SATA card with 6x 500gb's and 6x 320gb's for storing movies and tv series. Also got a 500gb in a hot swap rack for taking to other people's houses and stuff. Will be replacing the 320's with 750's in a few weeks.

My games PC has a 7950GX2 in it which plays GTR2 just perfectly, I have no need for anything faster at the moment :)

[dickytim]

does it have an off/on button ?

Will it play the current game I want ?

That is all I really understand about this stuff.

[bradc]

That PC would be fine for you, just upgrade to an 8800GT and it will play GTR2 perfectly

[Turbo_Steve]

Christ, brad, all those spindles! I bet you don't have to worry about heating the house! I'm assuming you've got a dedicated equipment room, then?

[bradc]

That seperate room is called my bedroom :) Great in winter :)

[Turbo_Steve]

LOL! Can I assume your bedroom doesn't have any regular female company?

"God Damnit, can you PLEASE turn off that noise, I'm not used to it and have work tomorrow!"

[bradc]

The desktop computer is very quiet, the server is a wee bit louder, and the games pc is very loud :)

[dickytim]

The desktop computer is very quiet, the server is a wee bit louder, and the games pc is very loud :)

and that is why you turn the sound up as loud as it will go :P

[bradc]

You've heard how loud my desktop pc and how much louder my games pc is :)

The engine noise and tyre squeal drowns it out anyway