PC Specialist Minerva System Review

[tinytomlogan]

High performance hardware at reasonable pricing made us wonder what you can do for a grand, and the PC Specialist Minerva is the result.


PC Specialist Minerva System Review

 

[Doomslayer]

Wow that is pretty good warranty in OZ its only 1 year warranty

 

[WYP]

Those are pretty good specs for the price, especially given that it is built etc for you.

 

[Doomslayer]

Those are pretty good specs for the price, especially given that it is built etc for you.

Agreed

 

[Greenback]

Was actually pricing it up to build and it's hard to get everything and be below the price they are charging,

 

[WillSK]

Pretty Close to what i'm about to build for my brother which I managed to do for £1128 including a nice IPS monitor.

Admittedly I only bought him 8GB of RAM but I still feel games don't need that and I bought higher speed

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/WillSK/saved/FbYfrH

 

[Greenback]

Pretty Close to what i'm about to build for my brother which I managed to do for £1128 including a nice IPS monitor.

Admittedly I only bought him 8GB of RAM but I still feel games don't need that and I bought higher speed

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/WillSK/saved/FbYfrH

doing a rough customisation to fit your specs it's still £1195 which isn't bad

 

[WillSK]

doing a rough customisation to fit your specs it's still £1195 which isn't bad

Yeah not bad at all. In fact for someone who wants a rig but isn't confident to build themselves it's a great pricepoint.

Was just curious to compare what i'm putting together against this

 

[barnsley]

This isn't bad at all. I came up with something a bit different and more my thing but this is still a fantastic deal. Don't like the 16gb of ram or the PSU but hey.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/c2FCgs
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/c2FCgs/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.50 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H75 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£57.89 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£89.96 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£64.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 4GB iChill Herculez X4 Air Boss Ultra Video Card (£299.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.95 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.31 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Total: £966.45

 

[Suicidalsyd]

Am i being stupid or did you forget to include VAT

 

[tinytomlogan]

Am i being stupid or did you forget to include VAT

Youre being a n0000b its £999 inc.

 

[Suicidalsyd]

whoops priced the thing meself and got 999 ex.vat but be fair, the review doesn't exactly scream 'click this link to get this price!' and pc specialist are mostly about building your own spec

p.s.

please please please have a crack at one of the new phanteks cases, i think you'll have a field day

 

[Wraith]

It's a meaty rig for the moola! PC Specialist have done them self proud with this.