Hardware & Technical PC finally purchased good deal at Dell if anyone is interested

[horncastle]

There is a 10% sale at DELL today if you apply the following code

1GXGB861$M2FWX

I have just purchased the following (899*90% with discount) £809.99.

[edit] It is called the XPS8700 and got some alright reviews

http://computers.toptenreviews.com/multimedia/dell/dell-xps-8700-review.html [edit]


I checked prices on Amazon and well obviously could maybe get the bits a bit cheaper shopping around

i7 4770 £213
Windows 8 £80
R9 270 2GB GPU £130
32GB of 1600mhz ram (4xDIMMS) works out about £200-250 (though this is pretty old ram new stuff runs at 2400)
3 TB SATA £70
256GB SSD £80
DVD/WR £25
Mini tower case £40
PSU £40 (assume bog standard)
Motherboard £70 (assume bog standard)

Maybe £950 if I self built?

Do not know exact details of the Mboard or PSU but once the warranty runs out I can strip it all out and put into a new case and stick some upgrades in?

I think this is spec is about a year out of day and was fairly good in 2013?

 

[popuptoaster]

I'd recommend http://www.scan.co.uk/ over dell or any of the large manuafacturers anyday.

I'm nothing to do with the company except a satisfied customer of a number of years, fast, helpful and good prices (especially the stuff that pops up on the one day only deals.)

 

[Sir.Tj]

Popped into hardware section.

 

[shantyman]

Personally, if i set it up, i would've made a few adjustments;
drop the i7 for an i5-4670 (or comparable), ditch half of the RAM, and use the savings to get an r9 280 (even an r9 280x depending on pricing where you live) over an r9 270, that way the system would be much more balanced i think. The way it is now the CPU is kinda overkill and your GPU will bottleneck in every game i can imagine off the bat.
That said, ED making use of all the i7's cores may alleviate that a little bit.

 

[Sub]

Personally, if i set it up, i would've made a few adjustments;
drop the i7 for an i5-4670 (or comparable), ditch half of the RAM, and use the savings to get an r9 280 (even an r9 280x depending on pricing where you live) over an r9 270, that way the system would be much more balanced i think. The way it is now the CPU is kinda overkill and your GPU will bottleneck in every game i can imagine off the bat.
That said, ED making use of all the i7's cores may alleviate that a little bit.

lol people that use the word 'bottleneck' when it comes to modern hardware make me laugh.

While I'd also agree you didn't need the 32gb of ram with this setup, it does give you the option to run things in a tidy ultra-fast ram drive

The 4770 is a solid choice and for ED the (and the price, frankly) the 270 will be fine.

For the money that's not a bad starting build at all.

P.S. I'd never, buy a PSU that costs £40!! wrong area to skimp on these days!

 

[shantyman]

lol people that use the word 'bottleneck' when it comes to modern hardware make me laugh.

Feel free to substitute 'bottleneck' for other terminology that adequately describes the fact that one component of the setup is outrageously less powerful than the rest of the system, so much so that greater lack of game fps on more demanding game settings can be directly traced to that single component.
I just find 'bottleneck', although it is an old term, to be easily understandable and much less cumbersome than having to dedicate a sentence or two to explain that principle. Which now you made me do

 

[Aleksej]

lol people that use the word 'bottleneck' when it comes to modern hardware make me laugh.

While I'd also agree you didn't need the 32gb of ram with this setup, it does give you the option to run things in a tidy ultra-fast ram drive

The 4770 is a solid choice and for ED the (and the price, frankly) the 270 will be fine.

For the money that's not a bad starting build at all.

P.S. I'd never, buy a PSU that costs £40!! wrong area to skimp on these days!

Actually, I think you are wrong as there is always a bottleneck. If your CPU is 50% loaded but you get 60FPS then it is GPU bottleneck (no other limitations such as VSYNC etc.). If you get 95% CPU load this is CPU bottleneck etc.

 

[Zieman]

There is a 10% sale at DELL today if you apply the following code

1GXGB861$M2FWX

I have just purchased the following (899*90% with discount) £809.99.

[edit] It is called the XPS8700 and got some alright reviews

http://computers.toptenreviews.com/multimedia/dell/dell-xps-8700-review.html [edit]


I checked prices on Amazon and well obviously could maybe get the bits a bit cheaper shopping around

i7 4770 £213
Windows 8 £80
R9 270 2GB GPU £130
32GB of 1600mhz ram (4xDIMMS) works out about £200-250 (though this is pretty old ram new stuff runs at 2400)
3 TB SATA £70
256GB SSD £80
DVD/WR £25
Mini tower case £40
PSU £40 (assume bog standard)
Motherboard £70 (assume bog standard)

Maybe £950 if I self built?

Do not know exact details of the Mboard or PSU but once the warranty runs out I can strip it all out and put into a new case and stick some upgrades in?

I think this is spec is about a year out of day and was fairly good in 2013?

PSU & MoBo would worry me if I was to buy that PC. Especially the PSU, Dell (actually every 'branded' PC manufacturer) are notorious for slapping a sub-standard noname PSUs with inadequate wattage to their 'power' builds.
IF the PSU & MoBo were allright, I'd ditch half of the RAM & get a beefier GPU (R9 280 / 280X or GTX 760 / 770).

 

[Paelen]

wow. Went to the Scan website and on the front page they had a gaming laptop listed. Triple SSD's in raid and 1Tb HDD and a dual Nvidia GPU £1700 give or take makes that around 2800.00 US. ouch!