Hi!
I come here in search of advice and valuable oppinions from people more knowledgable then myself. I would like to thank you ahead of time for taking your time to help me out. Here goes:
I am currently sitting on a temporary computer, my old system, which at the time of purchase was a monster, died on me. Without enough money on my hands to get anything decent I purchased a temporary one. It includes a Radeon x550, enough said..
Anyway, I am looking for a system at around £1000 ($2000) that would last me for about 3 to 4 years. I would oppinions on the following things
a) Should I buy before or after christmass/vista/dx10. I wish to get my pc sooner, but I am also aiming for a high end card like 1950xtx or 7950gx2 so unless the new cards are going to be above $600, I could afford it.
b) Where should I buy my system? I live in United Kingdom and everything is **** expensive here . I was considering buying in US, and shipping it here through a close relative to avoid taxes . Even if I can't turn the pc back in for repairs, the prices are so cheaper that even if the video card came DOA and i replaced here in UK, it would still end up being cheaper.
c) What about IBUYPOWER, any oppinions? I had a look today and it seems like they are selling for pretty low prices and the systems look good. I don't know anything about their reputation though. http://www.ibuypower.com/ibp/store/configurator.aspx?mid=182
d) Not to start a war, but what advantage does which cpu have? Athalon x2 5000+ or E6600.
e) Radeon 1950xtx or Geforce 7950gx2?
f) Just how much of a performance boost do the Raptors with 10,000RPM have over normal hardrives with 7,200RPM.
g) I did give this a read, but I am still a bit confused. No raid, Raid 0 and Raid 1? Raid 0 makes the pc think I have 1 hardrive and splits the information, making it more likely my system can become a goner if a hardrive fails and gives no performance boost? Raid 1 gives a performance boost, more security, but makes me only have as much space as 1 of the hard drives?
Thanks for reading all that, I ramble way too much.
I come here in search of advice and valuable oppinions from people more knowledgable then myself. I would like to thank you ahead of time for taking your time to help me out. Here goes:
I am currently sitting on a temporary computer, my old system, which at the time of purchase was a monster, died on me. Without enough money on my hands to get anything decent I purchased a temporary one. It includes a Radeon x550, enough said..
Anyway, I am looking for a system at around £1000 ($2000) that would last me for about 3 to 4 years. I would oppinions on the following things
a) Should I buy before or after christmass/vista/dx10. I wish to get my pc sooner, but I am also aiming for a high end card like 1950xtx or 7950gx2 so unless the new cards are going to be above $600, I could afford it.
b) Where should I buy my system? I live in United Kingdom and everything is **** expensive here . I was considering buying in US, and shipping it here through a close relative to avoid taxes . Even if I can't turn the pc back in for repairs, the prices are so cheaper that even if the video card came DOA and i replaced here in UK, it would still end up being cheaper.
c) What about IBUYPOWER, any oppinions? I had a look today and it seems like they are selling for pretty low prices and the systems look good. I don't know anything about their reputation though. http://www.ibuypower.com/ibp/store/configurator.aspx?mid=182
d) Not to start a war, but what advantage does which cpu have? Athalon x2 5000+ or E6600.
e) Radeon 1950xtx or Geforce 7950gx2?
f) Just how much of a performance boost do the Raptors with 10,000RPM have over normal hardrives with 7,200RPM.
g) I did give this a read, but I am still a bit confused. No raid, Raid 0 and Raid 1? Raid 0 makes the pc think I have 1 hardrive and splits the information, making it more likely my system can become a goner if a hardrive fails and gives no performance boost? Raid 1 gives a performance boost, more security, but makes me only have as much space as 1 of the hard drives?
Thanks for reading all that, I ramble way too much.