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looking to get a new desktop
thinking of getting something that can run a 2nd possibly a 3rd monitor
so i can play poker and FM2010 at same time

this was the machine i got from local shop any good?
anyhing better out there?
anything cheaper out there?
Power Supply


•   x 1 24 Pin + P8 and P4
•   x 2 PCI-e 8 Pin
•   x 2 PCI-e 6 Pin
•   x 8 SATA
•   x 9 Molex
•   x 2 Floppy
•   SLi Ready / 80 PLUS Certified / 5 Year Warranty


Case - Overclockers.co.uk
Antec 902 Nine Hundred Two Ultimate Gaming Case
•   - 9 drive bays
- External 3 x 5.25"; Internal 6 x 3.5" for HDD, or
- External 6 x 5.25"; Internal 3 x 3.5" for HDD, or
- External 9 x 5.25"
•   - Advanced cooling system:
 1 rear 120 x 25mm TriCool™ blue LED exhaust fan, - 1 top 200 x 30mm “Big Boy” TriCool™ blue LED exhaust fan, - 2 front 120 x 25mm special black blue LED intake fans with front speed control, - 1 side (Optional) 120 x 25mm fan mount, - 1 middle (Optional) 120mm fan mount, - Built-in washable air filters
•   - 8 expansion slots to support multiple graphics cards, including NVIDIA 3-way SLI®
•   - Front mounted I/O ports, - 2 x USB 2.0, - 1 x eSATA, - Audio In and Out (AC’97 and HDA compatible)
Or
Antec 600 Six Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
•   - Dimensions: 491 x 212 x 492mm (H x W x D)
•   - Front I/O Ports: 2 x USB2.0 and 2 x audio ports
•   - Rear Cooling: 1 x 120mm Blue LED TWOCOOL fan
•   - Top Cooling: 1 x 200mm TriCool Blue LED fan
•   - 5.25" Drive Bays x 3
•   - 3.5" Drive Bays x 6
•   - Built-in hot swap hard drive caddy
Motherboard
Whitesberg S1156 Motherboard
•   (3 Year Return-To-Base Warranty)
 
RAM
•   4GB XMS3 Corsair Memory (2x 2Gb Sticks)
•   DDR 3
•   1333MHz
•   (3 Year Return-To-Base Warranty)
Processor
•   INTEL Core i5 - 750 Processor
•   2.66 GHz and up to 3.20 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
•   4 processing threads
•   8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
•   2 channels of DDR3 1333 MHz memory
•   (3 Year Return-To-Base Warranty)
Hard Drive
•   1TB Western Digital Caviar Green 3.5"
•   Capacity: 1 TB
•   Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
•   Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
•   Cache: 64 MB
•   3.5 inch Hard Drive
•   (3 Year Limited Warranty)
Operating System
•   Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Graphics
2X Max Value DVI-D Splitter Cable, 1x Male to 2x Female, 0.3 Meter - allows up to 4 monitors
1X - XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB
•   TeraScale Graphics Engine
•   Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
•   DDR5 Memory
•   Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
•   Dynamic Power Management
•   800 Stream Processing Units
•   ATI PowerPlay Technology
•   ATI CrossFireX
•   DirectX 10.1 Support
•   HDCP Capable
•   HDMI Ready
Optical Drives   
•   4 MB Buffer
•   Motorized Tray
•   SATA Connection
•   Watch Hi-Def Blu-ray movies
•   16x DVD Write speed

Maximum Read Speeds
•   BD-ROM (SL/DL) 8x
•   BD-R (SL/DL) 8x
•   BD-RE (SL/DL) 2x
•   BDMV (AACS Compliant Disc) 4.8x
•   DVD-ROM (SL/DL) 16x
•   DVD-R (SL/DL) 12x
•   DVD-RW (SL/DL) 10x
•   DVD+R (SL/DL) 12x
•   DVD+RW (SL/DL) 10x
•   DVD-RAM 5x
•   DVD-Video (CSS Compliant Disc) 8x
•   CD-R/RW/ROM 40x
•   CD-DA (DAE) 40x   Maximum Write Speeds
•   DVD-R 16x
•   DVD-R DL 4x
•   DVD-RW (SL/DL) 6x
•   DVD-RAM 5x
•   DVD+R 16x
•   DVD+R DL 4x
•   DVD+RW (SL/DL) 8x
•   CD-R 40x
•   CD-RW 24x


TOTAL £999

When I play FM2010 on one screen and MSN on the other it minimizes FM when I click anything on the other screen which is annoying

The price is pretty much spot on for that spec - you probably won't find cheaper online, especially with a Bluray drive in.

ok gave this guy the same specs as the other guy for what i wanted he doesnt do intel though and came back with this


AMD 64 X4 945 CPU
6GB DDR2 Memory
LG Bluray
1000GB Hard Drive
Windows 7

£595 inc vat

Graphics card and mother board included in the second pc?


Personally I always get custom made pcs

all the details i got from him in the email was cut and pasted into above post

i will email him and ask for clarifaction

Hard to compare without knowing case, PSU, graphics card (1st PC, card is about £130). Processor is about same price. DDR3 memory in first machine, about 50% more expensive. Operating system kosher or dodgy copy (£80ish if not dodgy)? Etc etc. It's possible to put a machine together for that price, but performance would be down compared to the first.

I build my own ;). But not really a PC gamer, so do them for about £500 and get something reasonably performant without being silly money. 6Gb memory not really that useful unless you're running lots of apps at once. And unless he puts a 64bit OS on there, you may as well throw 3 of the 6 down the pan.