beatifull price

[filippo]

I found this company which is excellent PC low cost....
http://www.dpctech.net/index.php
filippo

[Onfame]

i dont think they are cheap, in the second screenshot they say:

Special features:

- AMD Phenom X4 9850BE
- Chipset NVIDIA nForce® 570 SLI™ MCP
- Dr Evil Jekyll case
- NVIDIA® SLI GeForce® GTX 280
- 8GB RAM DDR2 1066mhz
- RAID 0,1,5 up to 6 Terabyte
- DVD Burner Dual Layer
- Creative Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
- AMD Cool'n'Quiet™
- Intelligent overclocking tools
- Windows Vista Capable PC

starting at 587.44 Pounds

besides the fact that you cant even configurate a 9850BE, youl see on the first screenshot that the configuration with some of the above featured settings is at about 1200 british pounds. "Starting at" means the cheapest configuration (9600GT, X4 9750, 500W, 500GB etc.) without an OS. You can save much more money if you buy all the single components at a shop like alternate.de (i saved 200 €) and build the pc on your own.

Edit: with all possible components you pay 2350.93 GBP for the amp desktop system.

Edit2: also you can not turn off the option:
Assembling and 72-Hour Burn-in DPC FESCP [EUR 100,00]
which costs 100 EUR!!!

[PureSpider]

Screw alternate.de!
Arlt.com is by far the best and cheapest computer components shop I know of

[Onfame]

i just meant alternate to compare, and as i´m bored right now here are similar pcs compared at dpc and alternate, you save over 200 € (maybe more at Arlt.com).
Edit: the X4 9950 BE is 10€ cheaper on altenate.de than on Arlt.com

[Borgleader]

Intel > AMD by far
Hitachi HDD are cheap (not price, quality)
8Gb of RAM is a tad overboard.

Also from what I've been told, OEM operating systems cant be re-installed if you change your motherboard.

[Zom-B]

Building your Rig by your self is the cheapest way and also the most fun

Living in Germany I mostly order on www.norskit.com (free shipping for Weekend orders!) but for single components www.idealo.de is the way to go

my 2 cent

[Onfame]

as ZomB said i just wanted to point out that building your own pc is the best you can do !

AND AMD has the best price/performance value regarding the phenom II against the core i 7. Core i 7 motherboards are much too expensive, and regarding the possibiltiy that with am3 boards the phenom II performance will also increase, it´ll be a clear Price/performance win for amd. But you are right the core i7´s performance is atm untoughable As you can see here (the screenshots at the bottom of the page):
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,67211 ... i7/?page=6

[Kram1032]

Google:
2 350.93 Pfund Sterling = 2 603.14625 €
hmmmm 2603,15....

[dougal2]

I've just been looking at building some quad systems (though not for rendering).

I've been spec'ing a machine with:
* 4GB RAM
* Q6600
* nvidia 8x series 256mb
* 250GB HDD
* DVDRW
* case + PSU
* 17" monitor
* keyboard/mouse
* xp pro licence
* extra NIC

for just a smidge under GBP £550.

For my purposes the Q6600 is already vastly over-rated, and the GFX card is not important.

(if anyone can actually beat that [with a supplier to the UK] I'd be interested )

[dmn]

Deskfan replacement

Would like to see this with some little plastic color streamers attached to it. I wonder if it oscillates

[dmn]

For the same amount (onfame's) you can get an i7 system as shown below. Of course there are still a lot of corners that can be cut. Only left out the monitor and the mounting bracket for the 775 compatible cpu cooler. And maybe get two of the hard drives IDK if newegg ships to EU or UK: