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[tonymadge]

John thats seems a serious machine I hope you have fun with it, re the price difference, well in the UK we always pay over the odds...sort of expected nowadays :think:

[AndyG]

I got all my kit from Overclockers, they are a good bunch. Though I also drove to Stoke to pick it all up.

KR
Dan.

Stoke! I hope you had armed escort 'Dave'!

AndyG

[JimCooper]

Well, for the last 10 years or so, I have been making do with fairly humble PC setups, mostly inherited from my son.

I retired some months ago and decided treat myself to a "serious" rig that would hopefully see me through the next few years.

Managed to convince my better half (never easy) and took the plunge!


Delivery date is today! I'm sitting here waiting for the big UPS truck.

Basic specs:

- Dell XPS 710 Core 2 Duo Processor E6700 (2.66GHz,1066FSB, 4MB cache)

- 2048 Mb (2x1024) 667 Mhz DDR2

- Hard Drive 640GB Serial ATA Raid 0 "Stripe" (2x320GB)

- nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX - 768 Mb

- 20" flat screen monitor (wide-screen)

- Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme

- XP Professionnel SP2


By the way, I did identical configurations on the Dell Swiss site and the Dell UK site and, guess what, the UK price is 830 pounds higher! That's a big hike.

I hope you're not prone to Hernias..that is one big, heavy box!!

Jim