New Rig - Anyone know of cheaper shops?

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[R-DEV]UK_Force

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Have seen you guys are really helpfull on here, and seem to know instantly the best place to shop so gonna list my new rig components with the prices I have, and wondered if I was getting ripped off - or you know of a cheaper place, as it would take me a month to find the best deals (I only know 3 computer site shops .... lol) :)

Looking at buying the lot Next Friday !!

Motherboard, RAM, CPU

Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6400 2.13GHz Retail / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle

(£340.71)

Lightscribe

Samsung SH-182MRSMN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige,Black,Silver) - Retail £22.31

Second drive DVD ROM

Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM (Silver) - OEM £12.91

Main SATA Harddrive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £50.51

Second SATA Harddrive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £50.51

Fan Controller & Media Card Reader

Akasa All-In-One 21 Function Panel (Silver) - Retail £29.32

Graphics Card

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £211.49

Blue SATA Cables & Blue IDE Cables ???

PSU

Hiper HPU-4M580 Type R 580W ATX2.2 PSU - Black £47.99

Case I already have - ready to go

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Any help at all would be greatly appreciated ;)

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And double your PSU budget while your at it. Frying brand new hardware sucks. Trust me.

If money is tight ditch the fan controller.
 
Just a thought why a 200gb and a 250, why not two 250's? I mean for a 5 (Your currency) difference i dont see why you wouldnt want the extra space. Not to be critisizing or anything.
 
steer clear of kustompcs their prices are pretty OTT imo. also dont touch overclockers uk. if you get your post count up (without spamming:nono: ;) ) then you get free shipping with specialtech, which on a whole rig will be a godsend.

scan.co.uk is pretty good for price comparisons, as is ebuyer.co.uk and froogle.co.uk

If anything on specialtech seems way overpriced, post it up on the specialtech forum (oc3d forum front page) and they will see what the deal it and probably get some competative prices for you.

And i think everyone here at OC3D will tell you how fantastic their customer support is. Second to none.
 
Cheers, in ref to the previous post, you say SATA dont do the Master and slave HD thing?

I take it you still have a Drive for your OS etc etc, and can still have another as "storage" ???
 
Ooops SATA controllers do have master/slaves - but they mean an entirely different thing to an IDE master/slave. In SATA it usually denote dev0 & 1 on a channel that can be paired, but has no influence on bootability or anything.

Setting up for installs is pretty debateable in the mission for the best OS & gaming setup.

U could get 2 identical drives and raid0 them, and arrange u`r OS and games section how u will.

Or u could do as u seem to be heading, which is one drive for OS and 1 for games.

Which is better ? There`s a personal preference for people again with that. I always prefer to keep my OS on different drives to either work or games. Not as much a difference as back in the IDE days, but it`s there.
 
name='llwyd' said:
steer clear of kustompcs their prices are pretty OTT imo.
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on the other hand they tend to carry a lot of the smaller stuff that the big box shifters don't, they will get stuff in for you that they don't normally carry if they can & they have the best customer service going.

Sometimes it's worth paying a bit more.
 
name='BUFF' said:
on the other hand they tend to carry a lot of the smaller stuff that the big box shifters don't, they will get stuff in for you that they don't normally carry if they can & they have the best customer service going.

Sometimes it's worth paying a bit more.
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I agree - I bought some fussy little things from them that I couldn't get elsewhere.

They're not always expensive. My son got his Razer Barracuda headphones from them with his first saturday job money and they were close to the cheapest out there - however, would have used Specialtech if there'd been any in stock.

And luckily for me they use a courier that has a depot in the town where I live.

Which courier a seller uses is almost as important as price to me e.g. I won't use anyone that uses Citylink anymore - they don't return calls for rearranging missed deliveries in time and nearest depot is 40 miles away!

I wish everyone would give an option to use Parcel Force.

I did use to use Scan all the time, with perfect satisfaction - until I got sick of Citylink.
 
SpecialTech provide the sort of excellent service that I used to have with Kustom tbh. I had a couple of bad experiences with the Kustom guys and not had one from ST :)
 
name='llwyd' said:
steer clear of kustompcs their prices are pretty OTT imo.
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I only said kustompcs as they do all the funky SATA cables. I dont know anywhere else that gets them in.

And they sell Jolt ;)

name='Kempez' said:
SpecialTech provide the sort of excellent service that I used to have with Kustom tbh. I had a couple of bad experiences with the Kustom guys and not had one from ST :)
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Never had any issues with them. But also never had any issues with OcUk, either. Guess I am just lucky. :P
 
TekHeads, I am thinking of ordering through these now, as it has what I want at a cheaper cost which means I can upgrade even more, Has anyone used these before ?
 
name=''[R-DEV said:
UK_Force;133972']TekHeads[/B'], I am thinking of ordering through these now, as it has what I want at a cheaper cost which means I can upgrade even more, Has anyone used these before ?
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Their support forums are on here :)
 
Thanks for all the help guys - gonna now go for this little lot through Tekheads:

07072 BFG nVidia GeForce 8800GTS OC 320MB DDR3 Dual DVI/HDTV Out (PCI-E) - Retail £162.00

605915 Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 i965P PCI-E (Socket 775) DDR2 Motherboard £62.00

607426 Intel Core 2 DUO E6420 2.13GHz 'Conroe' 4Mb Cache LGA775 (1066 Mhz) - Retail £106.34

606232 OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 Gold GX XTC 5-5-5-12 Dual Channel Kit £98.23

606750 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATAII NCQ 3Gb/s 250GB 16MB Cache OEM x 2 = £78.30

606974 Samsung 18x DVD±R/±RW Lightscribe Dual Layer Multi Bezel - Retail £19.35

604516 Sony 16x DVD-ROM Silver - OEM £9.65

602678 Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound £4.65

605902 Hiper HPU-4M580 SLI Ready 580W ATX2.2 PSU - Black £39.99

604301 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card - OEM £13.33

604214 Akasa All In One Fan Controller with Memory Reader - Silver £24.90

601736 Akasa Day-Glo UV Rounded Cable ATA133 Blue 450mm x 2 = £8.54

605039 Akasa SATA II Data Cable - 'Blue UV' 450mm x 2 = £6.02

607222 Akasa Yellow Hard Disc Drive Cooler 2 Fan Direct Fit x 2 = £7.90

Vantec NexStar 3 3.5" Portable HDD Enclosure, with USB 2.0/Firewire - Onyx Black = £32.84

TOTAL INC P+P = £797.70



If someone has a minute - can you just confirm 2 things?

1. Have I missed anything of essential that will hinder my build (got case)

2. Is it all compatable (it seems to be, as far as I can see .... lol)

Thanks again

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I don't see anything missing, as for compatibility, I still dont see any problems (Just by glancing at names).

One more thing, do you have a OS?
 
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