Ive not had chance to get any further with this.. I think I said earlier in the thread that I had a lot of stuff on each of the past few days.. and indeed its been manic. I didnt get home till late last night and Im shattered today and need to do some domestic stuff too :/
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Do you have a local Novatech shop as they built one of mine to order and put the operating system on it that I gave them.
Unfort no.. but I think the £60 fee mentioned earlier is any changes in config from changing the specs on the bare-bones up to a complete build. They then do free shipping .
>> Why not build your own?Many years ago I used to, but as rizla says the margin started to get thin.. especially when Aldi started doing the Medion specials which had specs cheaper than I could build for - despite having had a (now lapsed) account at SCAN.
The only thing that does concern me about own build systems is that I struggle with the CPU/heatsink clips and on my last build had to get someone else with stronger fingers to do that :/
>> take a look at www.tranquilpc.co.ukThanks will add that one to the list too.
>>Are you set on a Core i5?No - that was minimum spec - I'd love an i7 but it depends on overall cost/budget, after speaking with 'the bank' a couple of days ago, I have a little bit more to play with... but at the end of the day its got to be paid back so I cant go silly.
One of my other 'want' areas now is a solid state system drive.
From when I last had chance to look I got so far as putting stuff into a spreadsheet and Im now tweaking bits.. Theres not too much difference between the prices on Scan/Novatech... some cheaper at one and vice versa, normally speaking of pennies...
Aside from a case I like, which is cheaper at Novatech.
At this point, it looks like I may be doing a own configuration system at the likes of Novatech or SCAN.
The 2 areas which Im still umming and ahhing at are 1) the graphics card 2)The case.
Yeah believe it or not.. the girl in me is putting a lot of decision making into finding a case that I actually like, because so many of them are damn ugly and I want something 'nice' to look at on my desk.
As regards case, I have to bear in mind that I keep my network switch on top of the PC.. and I have a cat that loves to sleep on top of the PC or router.. therefore a case which is open/grilled at the top would become a dust/fur magnet.
I like cases which look like this
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/cases/cases/rc-550-kkn1.htmlbut dunno yet if the budget will stretch that far.