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The Witcher 2 looked beautiful on my GTX 470 - the GTX 670 should smash it :)
mgowen & johnno07 - Thanks guys!
Finally I have got a new PC. Have upgrade the mobo, SSD and bought wireless network card. Super happy!
NO probs, enjoy your induction into The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race!
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Google Tom's GPU Hierarchy chart and Anandtech Bench GPU 2013 to get some ideas.
Then find a good price for the one you want on staticice.com.au.
HD 7850 is good value under $200.
But the performance of the 7870 over the 7850 is worth more than the $20 or so you're saving.
7870 for sure its the best for your buck under $200. That being said I've got a 6850 that hasn't missed a beat on 1440 x 900 resolution.
under $200?
Except for one ex demo card, they start at $215 plus shipping:
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=hd+7870&spo…
Still great bang for your buck though. A mid-range Radeon HD is really easy to recommend right now, and 7870 will play new games beautifully.
pretty sure atm 7870s aren't available sub $200 (really wish they were, though)
Is a motherboard upgrade worthwhile?
Seems the H77 m/b might be worthwhile as it supports SSD caching?
Do any of the motherboards on offer have built-in wifi?
The most expensive one has - P8Z77-V.
Wow! An ATX Tower case with multiple 5 1/4" drive bays!
Takes me back to the good ol' days of ESDI, SCSI ZIP drives, Sound blaster cards and Voodoo graphics.
Computers may have changed beyond recognition since then, but its good to see some people are keeping vintage case design alive in an age of tablets and micro-servers.
Floppy drives aren't the only thing that fits in a 5 1/4" bay.
SD card slots, extra front panel USB ports, fan/heat monitors and so on and so forth.
EDIT: Wait WTF - you're complaining about 5 1/4" bays? I thought you were going on about 3.5" bays (considering your reference to floppy drives and ZIP drives - which fit 3.5" bays). What about bluray drives? DVD drives? And what would you rather they do with that space up the top? Just a flat panel? Even more HDD bays in a cheap case? What do you want??
Optical disks are a pre-broadband legacy medium. But they do come in slim-line versions for some time now.
September, change of government, Libs are rolling back to carrier pigeon NBN…don't go throwing out your coasters quite yet bro, you might just need 'em! ;)
I agree with both the Liberals AND Labor. Sure we can't afford it and we shouldn't spend so much but the Liberals go too far, "fibre to the node" WHAT A JOKE!!! If you can't pay for it now then don't! I reckon they should just start rolling out NBN at a much slower rate to the premises so that we can afford it.
Decent video cards availbale tonight at centrecom
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=wyyuf6cab…
Decent prices.
I built a similar PC to this recently, with a G1610 instead of the i5, saved $120.
In total:
You can build it for around $350 yourself.
i5 is overkill for a budget pc.
budgetPC you should do something like this for gamers,
pentium g2020 or i3 (do not underestimate ivy pentiums)
8gb ram
500-1tb hdd (offer SSD as an optional upgrade)
radeon 7770
same case/same psu
these machines will be grunt enough to run most games on 720p
I sort of agree with this. My current gaming rig is a Pentium g2020, 4gb ram and a HD7850, and it's capable of running Saints Row 3 on ultra @1920x1080.
But not all games are as GPU focused as SR3, for example Bang bang Racing is unplayable because it's more CPU intensive.
Might be an option to build a basic pentium based system and then upgrading it if/when you need the extra grunt?
How would this go for video and photography work?
Basically, laptop can't handle Lightroom 4 anymore (even on 240GB SDD and 8GB Ram - CPU is not fast enough me thinks. It's a "Intel® Core™ i5 460M 2.53 GHz Processor") and I plan on doing some video work in the near future and upgrading camera equipment so I think I'm going to need to go to desktop soon anyway.
What I would do is rip out the SSD in my current laptop and chuck that in as the primary drive, use the 60GB as a temporary storage drive for files I'm currently working on, and store everything else on the HDD (general media). I'd also get a decent graphics card so I can replace my xbox 360 and also use HDMI or displayport. and a decent sound card too while I'm at it. I assume in total it shouldn't set me back more than say… $900.
I'm running windows 8 and wubi for linux mint (I do coding as well… but nothing more than a few thousand lines at the moment so that's not an issue). This should be ok right? Possible intensive programs which I may run would include:
Crysis 3 and any COD games released in the future
Solidworks (3d CAD software)
Adobe Lightroom 4 and possibly Photoshop elements or CS6.
Adobe premiere pro.
Should be good. Check to see if the Adobe apps benefit from CUDA etc that's exclusive to Nvidia graphics cards (otherwise the Radeon's are generally better bang for your buck). Apparently the $30 Asus Xonar DG is audiophile sound quality, though most people just use built-in sound.
try www.reddit.com/r/buildapc, they have quick links to the right info and can answer questions fast.
Pretty sure a lot of modern software now supports the OpenCL (AMD) standard. Premiere pro currently has no OpenCL support but that's coming soon and future versions of Lightroom/Photoshop should include both CUDA and OpenCL support.
In other words, it doesn't matter what you buy but if you're looking from a good bang for your buck perspective the Tahiti LE based 7870 MYST edition card's offer 660Ti levels of performance at a much cheaper price.
Time to open an internet cafe
Great deal! Very tempted to get one but shipping to regional QLD is almost $50 - ouch!
I was pretty impressed by this deal. Sadly I'm still hanging for a Mini ITX deal and I'm looking for a 77 series chipset
REP. Deal looks good.
Is this a future proofed home PC (will get used for everything except 'serious' gaming, but particularly image editing and massive browsing and maybe 3D graphics in future) or what upgrades would you/anyone recommend?
Have up to $1,000 to spend.
I think so.
It probably won't be a "slow" PC for 5 years at least, the way CPUs are (not) progressing.
But if you want to do any gaming (except really simple casual games like angry birds, browser games, etc) and serious image editing (heavy photoshop) you do need to buy a GPU (video card) for it too, at least a $65 HD 6670.
I purchased with the following upgrades:
H77 motherboard (this appears to have HDMI and optical audio out)
16GB RAM
Bigger SSD
Will wait for a good deal on a GPU.
Prob the main game I'm looking forward to playing is the new GTA (end of year?)
Oh yeah I'll prob need some sort of wifi adapter too.
REP - when can I pick up my PC?
Your one is ready for pickup :D
Serious? That's awesome! Thanks
How long will this last. I get paid on Wednesday
Living paycheck to paycheck…love it!
Could you offer a 3570 upgrade option for +$20-$25?
will also want to upgrade to the P8Z77-V LX
Thinking about buying the base and getting a gfx card later on.
I know i can get tax deduction for the whole PC but if i buy the solo graphics card don't think i can. Reckon it's better just to buy with the AMD 7870?
Anybody else get that you cannot un-tick the newsletter box when ordering? Pretty sure that's illegal (spam act)
Didn't try to un-tick it at checkout but in my account you can un-tick the newsletter box
Yes I noticed that too… pretty dodgy
hey guys, i noticed that on their website they offer the powercolor 7870 for $235 as an upgrade, but they also have the same graphics card in stock and on sale at $215 here:
http://www.budgetpc.com.au/ax7870-2gbd5-2dhppv3e.html
are these somehow different?
I checked. There is no difference. They're both exactly the same (Tahiti 7870s) yet it's $20 extra as an add-on option?
Never heard of paying more when buying items together…
Probably because they're actually installing & testing the GPU as well as the system…but yeah, twenty bills for throwing in an additional graphics card, when you're building a system anyway, is pretty steep! ;)
So will adding on a 7870 to this system make it a decent gaming pc? Every other aspect seems ok, how will it handle the big games like Battlefield and the likes on maximum setting you reckon?
Battlefield runs smooth on a 7870.
The CPU is powerful enough to run any current generation game at max settings. The more you spend on the GPU the better your performance. Although I would suggest a 7870 Tahiti LE as a good bang for your buck option — it performs very close to a HD7900 series and beats the GTX 660 Ti in terms of dollar vs performance ratio.
I bought one this morning with a couple of changes motherboard ram and power. Picked it up this afternoon good service and thanks to all the comments here you made me finally buy a new computer.
Very tempted, how would the onboard graphics handle some of the more graphics intensive games, set on more easygoing settings, as I doubt our kids would really appreciate the difference, and they aren't really playing the latest games anyway, most of that's done on their xbox.
Looking at upgrading the motherboard (for HDMI to TV if I want to), memory to 16gb, and the SSD to 120gb & HDD to 2tb as it's not too expensive.
I'm looking at this as a audio recording pc running protools 10. Any thoughts or recommendations. Upgrades etc?
Thanks in advance
So what is the savings on this deal compared to a reg pre built pc?
Pity the Rep is not responding to queries. I think I'll wait for a different deal or learn to put my own together.
Just in time when current pc starts to wear out from years of service. Fingers crossed.
Damn, expired…getting paid tomorrow. Will wait for another good deal like this
Btw just an update, I received mine today in WA.
Absolutely. Will play Witcher 2 nicely.