Should I accept it or not...?

[DanKH]

Cabinet: Midi Tower ATX, black front with acryl and black chassis
Dimensions: Width x Height x Depth: 200 x 435 x 470 mm
Front plugs: 2 USB, 1 Speaker-out, 1 Microphone
Powersupply: HuntKey ATX active PFC, effect 500 Watt
Motherboard: Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
Chipsettype: Intel P35/ICH9R
IDE controller: 1 Ultra DMA/133/100/66
IDE RAID controller: with Serial ATA, RAID 0/1/0+1/5/JBOD
Serial-ATA controller: 8 Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Slots: 1 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 3 PCI
RAM slots: 4 DIMM Dual-channel DDR2 240-pin & 2 DIMM DDR3
Seriel ports: 1
Parallelports: 1
USB ports 4 (+ 4) USB 2.0 (2 used on the front)
IEEE-1394 FireWire ports: none
Integrated netcard: Gigabit LAN Controller
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme
CPU Form Factor: 775-land FC-LGA 4
CPU Speed: (QX6850) 3,0 GHz
FSB speed: 1333 MHz
Level 2 cache: 8192 kB
RAM: type DR2-667 PC2-5300 240-pin
RAM modules: 2
Installed RAM: 2048 MB
Max. RAM: 8192 MB
HDD: 320GB SATA 3 Gb/s 8MB cache
DVD/CD burner DVD±R20/+RW8/-RW6/+R DL 8/-R DL 8, CD 48/32/48 X
Floppydrives: none
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB, PCIe
Soundcard: Integrated Realtek ALC889A (Intel HDA) 7.1
Software: Preinstalled OS: Windows Vista Home Premium DK (!) (could hopefully be changed)
Powercable: 1
Producer: Zitech itemno. 070815
Brut. weight 18,2 kg




And the price????


A new kitchen, 2 new windows and a door for our daughters house, and a mere £1600.....

Deal or no deal? What do you all suggest.......?

[TSR2]

At a quick glance, looks ok, similar to mine, but I bought when prices where expensive at the start of the year, and mine didn't include the hard disks or OS... You might be able to make it slightly less expensive if you did it yourself, and that PSU will NEED to be more than 500watt. ;-)

[RobDob]

Looks nice!

[Quixoticish]

I've just priced an almost identical rig up at komplett (excepting I've added a Corsair 620W PSU instead) and it's come to 1,289.98 including VAT (plus an extra £72 for the VISTA Home Premium software and license). £1600 seems a wee bit steep to me.

One question though, why spend a small fortune on the 8800 when it'll be replaced very soon by proper DirectX 10 cards (the 8800 won't be 10.1 compatible) and why fork out so much cash on the core 2 extreme when it's hard finding something to really tax a core 2 duo? The core 2 extreme is still quite new so you are paying a premium for something that will cost half as much in a few months time. Unless you're an enthusiast with a penchant for overclocking you won't get your monies worth at all for the extreme, and plumping for the 3Ghz Core 2 duo will net save you over £400 and I doubt you'll be able to really stress it to breaking point for a good while yet.

[TSR2]

Re the DX10... if this is only for FS, I wouldn't bother mate. The DX10 in acceleration IS only a preview... some nice touches but will render all your legacy aircraft useless.

The Current DX10 hardware will not support the DX version win FS11 is released as its hardware dependant.

Re the 3GHz Quad, as far as CPU power goes this should see you into the next version of FS comfortably, so if this is a now or never then I'd always suggest going with the fastest cpu you can afford, and the extra cores seem to make a difference in FSX.

Have to agree with Chriss... I've done some quick sums and £1600 seems expensive.

[DanKH]

the £1600 is based on the current price 10 DDK = 1 £ ... I don't know if that is correct. but compared to other retailers here in Denmark this isn't that bad.

I'm more worried about the 2 windows and the door to our daughters new room...