License
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$50. I never knew that.
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Never mind - he'll come back when he sees his Mac license does not work on PC
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Dammit - I am back for obvious reasons. I will have to dropbox my models from my Mac to PC until next payday. How annoying...
@solo said:
What are the specs of the super machine?
I still have a few parts to come (another GTX690) but as it stands:
Case NZXT PHANTOM 410 WHITE GAMING CASE
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel
Quad Core i7-3820 (3.6GHz @ max 4.4GHz)
OC Settings Show/Hide
Motherboard ASUS P9X79 PRO: INTEL SOCKET LG2011
Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST QUAD-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader NONE
Power Supply CORSAIR 750W PRO SERIES
HX750-80 PLUS GOLD MODULAR (£119)
Processor Cooling Corsair H60 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£59)
Extra Case Fans 2 x 12CM Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) (£9)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System Genuine Windows 8 Standard Edition 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software FREE 60 Day Trial of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Edition
Anti-Virus BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Monitor NONE
2nd Monitor NONE
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables NONE
Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision NONE
Keyboard & Mouse NONE
Mouse NONE
Speakers NONE
Webcam NONE
Headsets NONE
Surge Protection 6 Socket Compact 2M UFO Surge Protector + Auto Power Off Function (£19)
Cable Tidy NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) -
Nice setup - although you could have the 4Gb version of this graphic card, too - the difference (in price) should not be that significant.
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I'd have gone 32GB ram, what did you pay?If you do not mind me asking.
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@solo said:
I'd have gone 32GB ram, what did you pay?If you do not mind me asking.
That rig above was £1300 and £1680 after tax. I will upgrade the RAM but if I had chosen more Ram and a better graphics card it would have pushed over my budget.
Now I have the machine will build upon it.
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As long as your happy that's the main thing.
With computers you're always chasing your tail.
Nothing more satisfying than just having something you enjoy and a few bob in the pocket for a curry.
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Yeah and typical PC fashion have had it for 4 days and only just working.
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Windows 8? Everything else looks great.
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@unknownuser said:
Windows 8? Everything else looks great.
I already bought W7 so I thought I would get 8 to try out. I will have 7 on another partition maybe.
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Just out of curiosity, what was the "Windows Experience Index" number? The fact that I don't have SSDs, always has dragged mine down to the mid 5's. Processor, memory, and graphics are in the high 7's.
I know this is a more or less arbitrary assignment of numbers, but does the SSD, bring your numbers up to the high 7's?
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I have windows 8 and SU runs perfectly. To me, it looks like a windows 7 with some UI changes (in favour of touch screens) but nothing too much else.
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@cjryan said:
Just out of curiosity, what was the "Windows Experience Index" number? The fact that I don't have SSDs, always has dragged mine down to the mid 5's. Processor, memory, and graphics are in the high 7's.
I know this is a more or less arbitrary assignment of numbers, but does the SSD, bring your numbers up to the high 7's?
I will check when I get it back to my house, currently in a taxi
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@liam887 said:
@cjryan said:
Just out of curiosity, what was the "Windows Experience Index" number? The fact that I don't have SSDs, always has dragged mine down to the mid 5's. Processor, memory, and graphics are in the high 7's.
I know this is a more or less arbitrary assignment of numbers, but does the SSD, bring your numbers up to the high 7's?
I will check when I get it back to my house, currently in a taxi
My number was 8, but I still havent had all the drivers installed and running two 32" Tv's as monitors, not sure how those things can alter the results.
Here are a few pics of the machine too.
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