PC suggestions?

[horsegal00]

Take a look at this computer:

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/385393...130706195701:s


Think its any good?

[xiTropicz]

Take a look at this computer:

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/385393...130706195701:s


Think its any good?

Yea thats a pretty good pc for it's money.

bear in mind it doesen't have an Operating System so you will have to buy and install that your self. It also doesen't say what sata the hard drive is. if it's a sata 1/2 then it's not worth getting. a sata 3 is good but if you are going for a i7 then i would suggest a PC with a sshd or ssd drive. They have a much higher transfer rate, so they will be much quicker.

Personaly, i would suggest this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ANKERMANN-Wi...7+computer+ssd

£200 more but defo worth it.

the prossesor has 4 cores + 8 hyper threads so it's basicly like a 8 core, just with 4 cores. graphics is GDDR5 insted of DDR3, 16GB DD3 ram instead of 8. It has a OS . And the hard drive is defo Sata 3, couldent find any PC's with sshd or ssd :/,

[naithantu]

Uh... well no not really. It is indeed called hyperthreading, where 1 core handles 2 threads simultaneously. According to wikipedia this gives about a 30% performance increase, so it's definitely not the same as having 8 cores (besides some other disadvantages that hyperthreading has).
I think all i7s have hyperthreading, the one that horsegal linked definitely has it. According to the specs listed for both CPUs the one that horsegal linked is actually faster, only a tiny difference though, 3.4 GHz/ 3.5 GHz

16GB DD3 ram instead of 8.

Personally I wouldn't go for 16GB ram. I have 8 right now and I've only reached my max once (and that was when some people went crazy on my tekkit server while I also had 20 chrome tabs & a tekkit client & 3 mc clients & bukkit server etc., you get the point ).

As far as the other parts go I'm not sure what is better. Comparing nvidia to ATI cards is pretty much impossible besides looking at benchmarks ;3

Like tropicz already said, the one horsegal linked doesn't have any info about the hard drive. Since it's a 2tb one I'd be suprised if it isn't sata3, but not mentioning a version number or manufacturer is weird :/
So yeah... I just made the choice even more difficult xD

Edit:
Horsegals ATI card seems to cost around 80 euros, while the nvidia card costs just under 200. Although ATI does generally have a better price/performance ratio, I expect the nvidia card to be significantly better (I wasn't able to find any benchmarks of the 2GB version of the ATI card, so can't be 100% sure)

According to benchmarks (of which one probably rather unreliable, youtube video :l), with bf3 at ultra settings the ATI card gets 15 - 30 fps and the nvidia card around 50

Tropiczs pc seems to be significantly better. Better GPU, more RAM, HDD which is at least equally good, CPU which is pretty much the same.
The 200 extra euros are deffo worth it for the much better GPU & windows 7 license.