£900 build, including a monitor, please help me out

Got a PM this morning, free shipping has been activated :-) so phoned Aria up and I've been told that the delivery is next day, so will order things from there tomorrow and from scan today. Can't wait ^_^
 
Right, everything ordered, £1003.75 altogether (saving nearly £30 because of cheaper prices at Aria and free delivery - love it). I'll put the pics up once its finished :)

Massive thanks to everybody who helped me out in this thread, I really appreciate it!
 
meeeeeeh only £103.75 over budget :)

Mine was about £300 over budget...and I never even got round to doing the £400 worth of watercooling that I planned to do :)
 
Mine was £200 over budget, but I have yet to buy a video card...-sigh-
Such is life :)
Best of luck with your build, mate.
Oh, and Aria is just great!
 
Thanks guys, I was actually only ~£60 over budget, but I got a keyboard, an ethernet cable, some TIM and a USB3 16GB drive. But do need to pop into Wilkos for a magnetic screwdriver.
I could've easily been within £900 if not for my dislike for blue..........
Something I actually missed is the fact that the Arc Mini is black and white themed, then the mb is black and red, so I think white RAM is going to fit in perfectly. I need to buy some nice coffee for Friday, already stocked up on pizzas xD
 
It was a typo, I was writing the OP late at night, and I have no idea why I put PATA :-) and of course I cannot edit it now.
 
I was just checking scan out, there is a 7870 on sale for 240 quid, should I return my 7850,which I got for 210 quid and get the 7870? Bear in mind that I'd have to pay for postage too, and I don't really have money..
 
I've got free shipping with Scan and Aria :D

Also above those card prices are really good. The 7950 was at £240 a bit ago as well at Aria.
 
Hi everyone, sorry for not updating on the progress, I've been moving house and a few things have gone wrong with the components.
The short version: I honestly regret ordering from Aria.
The long version: I had to RMA the monitor due to back light leakage, sent the GPU back to change it for 7870, and had to RMA the motherboard due to whining capacitors.
First two things were to Scan and mb to Aria, all on the same day. I got a new monitor delivered back to me within 4 working days and the refund was processed within a week.
With Aria things have been far worse. When I tried getting in touch via online form, all I was getting back was a generic response, not even generically answering my queries. So I called them up on Wed this week, got through to the repairs team, who after a very long conversation agreed to replace the mb for the new one. I have been assured that it would be with me on Friday (today) at the latest. Called them up yesterday to confirm the delivery address and also confirmed that the package is to be sent that same day. I was all happy (even despite the absolutely terrible customer service) and phoned up today to get the order tracking information. I've been told that systems are down and I would be expecting a call back as soon as they are up. 2 hours later no call was returned so I called them myself and another person told me that there is nothing he can do and the woman who dealt with me is away from her desk and would call me as soon as she is back. Well guess what, an hour later - no call so dialled them myself. After getting through, I was put on hold for 20 mins (not exaggerating) and all I got back after that is that the person who can find out what is going on is on lunch and they would definitely call be back ASAP. And yes, you guessed, 1.5 hours later I had to call back again just to be told that the mb is only going to be delivered on Monday. WTH? I have never experienced such incompetency before, they are going to get a complaint, as soon as I get the mobo back and can actually type properly because I only have my mobile available.

Admittedly, the only helpful person was the guy from the repairs team, who I spoke with on Wed. He was running tests on my mb as we spoke and we went through a few things to identify he fault.

I will post pics once I have the computer all sorted and running.
 
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Really sorry to hear about your issues :(. Have you tried the Aria forums? I think people have had more success following that route :)
 
What was the total turn-around time from when they received the board, till when they sent out a new unit?
They have Aria reps on this forum, so it may be worth sending him a PM.

I know it's annoying, but I do know of other companies (Scan) who have blamed the initial fault on the consumer, and so will not give any refund at all. Count yourself lucky at least that you are actually getting a new board
 
Yep, there is no e/retailer out there that has a perfect customer services department. It's the luck of the draw I think. If you get someone helpful than it's all good, but if you're stuck with a person/people who are very unhelpful, then the experience can be very bad indeed :(.

As James has suggested you should contact RawZ here or even sign up to the Aria forums and start a thread there.
 
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