Erebus Mk.2 Prelim Spec and Pricing

**Isphera** · 22nd February 2010, 08:50 PM

HD price is total for both.

but way more than neccesary

It also means that I upgrade later and less frequently than people who settle for a cheaper build. Extra £500 now extends live by a year or two minimum and saves me money in the long run.(e.g If I had spent less than I did on Mk.1, I would have had to upgrade ages ago, due to ineptness, and it's actually only just stopped physically working this week. Had it not broken, it would still be fine to play most games like GenGen and AoE2)

**Target** · 23rd February 2010, 04:58 AM

AMD phenom slightly overclocked will rape a i7 stock and 900 antec case is sex...12gb ram thant u can't even use and tbh all you need it a pc that will run bf3 on full settings cost u bowt £500 prob less, ur spend a lot more and not reallt gettin that much better of a pc, I'll accept on paper the i7 is better but for the extra 5fps you'll get it really not worth the extra £150+ or so..but its totally up to u!!!
Now adays its just not worth spending that much on a rig because in a couple of years its dicked on and the year after that its useless....really you want to spend as little as possible and build a rig that can easily be upgraded in the future...but if they have ddr3 ram now I am pretty sure in the next 6 months they will have ddr5
And psu I would get 700w+ but it doesn't matter what make so long as you know that the components in your pc use no more than 700w you'll never have a problem no matter what the make and there prob all made in china for 37p and just have a brand label stuck on them....

**Isphera** · 23rd February 2010, 10:18 AM

My response to Chris (LOOOOONG post) is in the spoiler, because most of the time, people turn off whenthey see my mass of text. In terms of when, the i7 930 is all but officially confirmed to be out on the 28th, but whenever that is available, I can click buy on the lot in 5 mins, so I expect to be up and running in mid-March at the latest.

And now - my response to Chris's post.

Spoiler:

Erm...I think your reading the first post not the latest spec, cause I only specced 6GB of RAM, although I debate your assessment that I can't use it, since I do a lot of HQ video transcoding and RSE music projects. I specced it down because I needed to get back down to my £1400 budget. I'll likely upgrade to 12GB in 6 months or so, if I need to. For the seventh time in the thread, I am choosing that PSU because it is proven to be reliable and its a company that I trust, and not an unknown generic china-build spitball that was cobbled together with a rock and string, and thus I will not be changing it. The Antec 900 is also overused since everyone has either Antec or Coolermaster cases, so I went for something different. Cooling is fine on the Lexa S, has 4 fans (1 front, 1 side, 1 back, 1 top) and an expansion slot for another at the top (and I'm guessing that you haven't looked at the Lexa S).

I also disagree with your assessment of 'spending less now and upgrade constantly' methodology. By spending more now, I can maintain a high level of performance for 7-8 years until we get to the 'OMG LOL EPIC GRAPHIX' games like we have been this year with MW2/BC2 (compared to Mk. 1). £500 is a very low figure for a computer to begin with, and thusly you'll be able to play MW2/BC2.....on medium. And then, you advocate spending £500 every two-three years to upgrade it, which will end up, over the lifespan of my method (8 years), costing you more, not to mention you will be settling at a mid-end constantly. By buying premium parts now, you start that the ultra-high end, and let technology take it's course, meaning you will decline with time, but it will be many years before a computer built by your method would beat one built on my methodology. With Mk. 1, I only really went below mid-end performace the middle of last year, just over 6 years after I built it, and thats was mainly due to age and abuse of the system, not the parts themselves.

Obviously, this is technology and new stuff and upgrades come out all the time, but as shown in benchmark charts, the GTX 295 (DX 10) is still competing comparably with the lower-end ATi DX 11 cards, so the older stuff doesn't instantly become useless the second the next set of parts is released.

I was reading an advice book aimed at teens, students and young adults a while back, and whilst I can't remember the title, it has given me on bit of key advice which I have enacted on many occasions. "If your going to buy something, and you will either use it alot or it is key to your life in some way, then spend a little bit extra to get the higher quality - it will last longer, and thus save you money, as well as give you better satisfaction with the product". Every time I've put this into practice, I haven't been disappointed. Every time I haven't, I've wasted money and then gone back to the theory.

One final point,

AMD phenom slightly overclocked will rape a i7 stock

I know your at uni, but were you smoking the doobie when you wrote this?

**Target** · 24th February 2010, 02:45 AM

Well tbh for the lol amount of money thats being wasted here why don't you just kick yourself in the face and buy an alienware

And I meant on value for a money...for the tiny amount of performance increase you may get from the i7 its just not worth extra lol £s being wasted