You could do a lot worse that buying zeppo's PC which he has up for sale in the members forum

You could do a lot worse that buying zeppo's PC which he has up for sale in the members forum

Just incase anyone is interested I bought Zeppos PC and now have my old one for grabs.
I will likely end up breaking it up for parts on ebay, but figured why not post it here.

The CPU was the dogs bollocks back in the day and still warrants around £100 based on ebay.
Likewise the board was top drawer too.

Alienware ALX (Black)
- Intel Core2 Extreme X9650 Quad core 3gHz processor
- 2 x 2GB Elpida DDR3 RAM (PC3-8500U)
- Radeon HD3870X2 1GB DDR3 PCIe dual DVi graphics card
- EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLi motherboard (http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/fil ... K-NF79.pdf)
- 1000W Newton Power PSU
- Creative 5.1 surround sound card
- water cooling system
- Alienware LED board to change case colours

You'd need to add a hard drive and o/s
Currently it has a 150Gb Raptor running Win7 Ultimate for demonstration purposes which Id be happy to throw in but be aware the O/S isnt "brand new" shall we say.

Let me know if interested
Offers around £200 to save breaking it for parts.

Does it have office?

I was idly pondering the idea of a gfx card upgrade the other day but my machine in general is knocking on a bit so I'm wondering how far away I am from the point where some other component becomes the bottleneck and a gfx card upgrade isn't worthwhile. The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200, the mobo is an MSI G31 M3-F LGA775 and it's only got 4GB of RAM. Obviously the RAM's on the low side but how capable is that CPU/mobo combination in today's money? The current gfx card is a Radeon HD7770 with 1GB of onboard RAM in case that matter. I'm not actually ready to do any upgrades right now or anything, I'm just curious.

I did that but the transfer speeds are annoyingly slow. I don't know why, but it takes forever to move anything.

I did think that myself but I think it's the reader as other things work at a proper USB2 speed in the same port.

Thanks guys, that confirms what I was concerned about.

In the last few years I've mostly used my PC for indie gaming which the current setup is more than capable of but now that the PC's connected to the main TV I can be a bit more platform agnostic when looking at deals. Obviously though that would mean having a PC that's pretty capable if I'm looking for some kind of parity with the last and current gen consoles. I'll keep thinking about it but certainly it would appear that if I'm to do any upgrade then a full new system would be on the cards. Christ, between that and a PS4 this year, or early next year, I might well blow my traditional gaming spend right out of the water!

While I remember can I just point out that frame rate evangelist / whore / obsessive Hearthly was challenged to show me a super pretty game on his "rig" when I was at his house.

He showed me Battlefield 4 which has lots of bells and whistles but fuck me it tore more than the Hulk's shirt after he's caught his finger in a door frame.

Hearthly's immune to it but all I could see was massive distracting tears all over the shop but he was all "But the frame rate man, the frame rate - I just turn vsync off"

So he fails to understand how people can cope with a 30fps game yet he's got a complete blind spot for tearing.

Hmmmm....

While I remember can I just point out that frame rate evangelist / whore / obsessive Hearthly was challenged to show me a super pretty game on his "rig" when I was at his house.

He showed me Battlefield 4 which has lots of bells and whistles but fuck me it tore more than the Hulk's shirt after he's caught his finger in a door frame.

Hearthly's immune to it but all I could see was massive distracting tears all over the shop but he was all "But the frame rate man, the frame rate - I just turn vsync off"

So he fails to understand how people can cope with a 30fps game yet he's got a complete blind spot for tearing.

Hmmmm....

I can't say screen tearing has ever bothered me. In fact, I wasn't even aware of it as a concept until someone pointed it out. Even then I couldn't really see it.

I don't know what screen tearing is but I'm going to troll AE about it now.

I'm thinking probably in the region of £2000-£2500...

I'd be looking at the new PC lasting me 3-4 years at least, which makes the cost reasonable if you think about it.

Yeah, too rich for my blood, and I buy any old shit.

Oculus Rift (and the required graphics card to drive it) will be my next serious outlay I expect

I would have to try it first, because I don't always respond well to stereoscopic 3D, but I am also thinking along these lines.

This reminds me.. I have a PC hardware question. I'm out of touch so bear with me.

I have a drive bay on the front of my PC that has numerous card reader slots, a mic input, headphone socket, 2x USB ports and a couple of data ports (I think, I've never used them)

The SD card slot has stopped working so I need to replace it. Where would be the best place to go and do you reckon it'll be hard to swap out? I haven't looked but I imagine there's a ton of cables. I'd have a look myself but a)I've only just thought of it and b)I'm not sure what the thing is called to look for it.

The GeForce GTX 970 is that rarest of things in the graphics card market - a genuine game-changer. In fact, it's actually more like a cooked hand grenade strategically lobbed into the high-end GPU market, designed to cause maximum damage to the competition - but in the process impacting just as many Nvidia cards too. It costs £260, which is a lot of money, but its performance per pound ratio is so strong that some might say there's little point considering any other high-end GPU currnetly available - and that includes Nvidia's own flagship GTX 980.