Help and advice for a new comp

[Talas]

Heya everyone,

its been a while since I posted, but I am quite happy to see that the forum is still alive. What with the whole Web 2.0 thingy drawing away attention from forums. At least, thats how it looks to me.

Anyhow, I would like your advice. My PC is like five or six years old and I want to buy a new one, and since I earn money now I want this one to be really really good. Now my neighbour owns a PC-Store and made be an offer. Looks like this:

- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR, 8ch. HD Sound (Motherboard)
- 2x DIMM 2Gigs of DDR2RAM PC2-800 Kingston VR
- Harddisk: Samsung F3, HD642HJ, 640 GB, 7200 R/Min, SATA2
- Graphics: Sparkle GeForce GTX275, 896 MB
- LG Bluray Player (DVD Recorder)
- CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 2,83 Ghz, 12 MB Cache

All complete with coolers and cabinet. He offers me this one for 1000€.

What do you guys think? I want a fast PC with which I can play, work, edit pics, videos etc. Nothing professional (except the work, but thats mostly writing and programming), just for me. What do you think? Is it a good offer?

thanks guys

 

[MasterPhW]

That's a lot bucks for such a system, it has nothing special (okay, probably the BR Burner) and some stuff is underpowered (RAM), some stuff is to much for your needs (Quad core? Nearly no programm uses it and a good Dual Core is cheaper and most of the time has better results in benchmarks aswell.), so I wouldn't recommend you this system.

 

[smcd]

I would expect to build that system around $1000 USD which is about 690€. Does that 1000€ price include VAT, if you are charged that? (Notice building myself saves labor costs which may be a bit more to that - make it 800 euro or something including labor?)

 

[revl8er]

If you can build the pc yourself you could always order the parts yourself. From what I've seen with ordering my parts I spent $250 on a AMD Phenom II Quad and MOBO, $250 on a HD4870 (now about $150), $70 on 4 gigs of memory, $100 on a 1TB HD, $60 on a case, $120 on a 750w PSU. Add a BR drive and you'd be looking at $900 give or take. The price is a bit high, but it'll run what you need it to.