Re: The day of reckoning is almost upon me.....

Whilst being taken roughly from behind, Joe Horowitz squealed:

> It's being delivered on December 6th, for a grand or so including VAT
> and delivery and construction and the techsupportwebs.

That's when I'm coming to visit. I can see the beast for myself.

> I'm sure it
> would have been much cheaper to build myself, but then so would
> anything if you know what you're doing.

Not always the case TBH. An individual doesn't have the buying power of any
kind of company so you end up paying slightly more for all of the
components. On the plus side you get to choose them all and can buy the
best of breed, IYSWIM.

> I was advised, though, that
> having experts wire *** up properly (which, according to some
> favourable reviews I've read, these guys do) would mean better sound
> quality etc. And it's pretty much a certainly that I _will_ need the
> tech support, being as I am a fuckwit.

GPWM.

> I have not been this excited about something in a long time, I fairly
> bounced my way around work last night.

I thought that was because I was coming to visit on the same day.

Offended.

> Studio PC: Joe Horowitz

Wow, you have a *computer* named after you. Cool.

> 1x Lian Li PC61 black aluminium ATX tower case
> 1x Philip Rees central airflow control system (FOC)
> 1x Zalman ultra quiet 400W ATX power supply
> 1x Asus P5P800 LGA775 motherboard
> Featuring: Intel 865 chipset, No of Memory Slots 4, PCI Slots 5, AGP
> Slots 1, Supported Bus Frequency (Mhz)800, Onboard LAN, Onboard Sound,
> No of USB Ports 6.
> Features: AGPx8, Serial ATA, USB2 Support.
> 1x Intel Pentium 4 630 3.0 GHz 800FSB CPU, 2Mb cache EM64T
> 1x Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu quiet CPU cooler
> 2x Corsair 512 Mbyte DDR400 PC3200 DIMM
> 1x ATI Radeon 7000 64 Mbyte AGP graphics card
> 1x 1.4 Mbyte Floppy disk drive, black bezel
> 1x 80 Gb 7200 rpm SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 HDD

Way too small. I wouldn't have had anything less than 250gb. You can always
add a larger HDD later tho. You can get a 250gb drive for about £65. A 80gb
HDD is about £40. TBH I think they've diddled you.

> 1x Plextor PX-716A Dual Layer DVD+/-RW drive Black
> 1x 3 Port PCI FireWire card
> 1x Genius Netscroll Optical mouse
> 1x Standard black Windows PS2 keyboard
> 1x M-Audio FireWire Solo audio interface
> 1x Edirol UM 2 2x2 MIDI interface
> 1x Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (dual boot)

Agree with Mart. Get XP Pro if you can afford it.

> 1x Symantec Norton Ghost 9 backup and restore s/w

Symantec is teh ghey.

> 1x Standard UK computer hardware warranty
> 1x One year phone, email and online technical support

Everything else looks OK.

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Kullrad (4)
UKSF Best New Poster 2003

"Er, I think you'll find it's the Year of the Brummie*** this time.
Yam Ki Pa Tai." - Joe Horowitz

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