What do you guys think of this prebuilt system?

[RhettJ]

http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming...roductId=40081

Would you change anything there? Is the PSU good enough for a future 2nd gfx in crossfire?

Personally I would upgrade the optical drive to blu ray/dvdr for now. For some reason I like blu ray on my pcs..my laptop has it. And with a decent screen I can have blu ray in my bedroom where I keep my pcs.

PS: It doesn't give details there but does that motherboard support USB 3?

[AMDFTW]

building your own is far cheaper and better IMO.do some research plan it out then build it urself,its not that hard honest

i dont like bluray in pcs unless HTTPC

[RhettJ]

I would love to build my own...a bit nervous though and my injuries keep me bedridden most of the time so haven't taken the plunge as it were.

I've been following this site for a long time..here and on youtube..would be cool if oc3d had a retail site..building pcs.

[AMDFTW]

ah ryt fair one,well whats your budget fella

TTL does nice builds if you have the cash,SCAN,OCUK and pcspecialists do good builds aswell

[RhettJ]

Originally Posted by name='AMDFTW'

ah ryt fair one,well whats your budget fella

TTL does nice builds if you have the cash,SCAN,OCUK and pcspecialists do good builds aswell

Hoping to raise about £1500 hopefully. May just put it on a CC lol. I did check those sites out and a few others..I found www.computerplanet.co.uk, seems cheaper than pcspecialists.

[AMDFTW]

1500 is a decent amount to work with,is it for games only nothing like CAD or rendering

[AMDFTW]

this is what you get from SCAN (3XS)

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ConfigureSystem.asp?SystemID=984

or OCUK's varition 2nd link has SSD a slightly better CPU and was reviewd on this website i think

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...d=1270&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...d=1444&subcat=

they seem your best bet fella,if you dont like my choices have a play

[RhettJ]

I like the ocuk systems..but would I have to phone them to make some changes? for instance the psu..in the future I'd like to get a second card, so what psu would I need? HX850? One of the systems has only 500gb and of course I'd like to upgrade the optical drive to bluray. You mentioned HTTPC..what's that?

[Diablo]

Home theatre PC, normally a small, low power very quiet system for playing movies and listening to music. Personally I have a bluray player in my PC and couldn't really live without it. Granted most gaming rigs aren't the quietest of beasts, but with some decent fans (silent eagle 1000 for example) and good speakers, it doesn't really matter.

The HX850 is a very good PSU, couldn't praise it highly enough, the only one which can match it (not in power) is the HX750. The new Seasonic gold 80 plus PSUs are supposed to be very good, but I'd stick with the corsair.

[RhettJ]

so the HX850 would be sufficient if I were to get a second gfx card in either crossfire/sli?