PC help

[John C]

Never in a thousand years

Your just buying the same stuff as I am on ebay but paying for the 12 extra middlemen.

If the price is too good to be true, just make sure the seller has over 5000 positive feedback. That means it is too good and its true.

 

[Bon]

Strangely I used to always get Asus. Until a succession of dodgy A7N8X put me off...

But there is no real logic to it. Ill just buy abit until I get a bad product from them. Then ill try someone else/

See, Ive just gone to find the stuff online, but its all disapeared, I swear that it was something along the lines of Asus has a subsidery company, which then brought Abit.

As for ebay, I don't trust anything off there because of previous scandals with fake hardware being sold there by legitimate companies!

 

[John C]

Do you mean fake like unlicensed copies of reference boards?
Or actually not the item advertised?



I know what standards are required to acheive Ebay power seller status and its quite valuable to risk it doing dodgy deals.

Both ebay and paypal highly favour the buyer.
So the seller has to work ten times harder than a non ebay site to do the same business.


Typically the standard of service for NIB items is better on ebay than anywhere else online. Prices are alot more competitive.
Just make sure they have good feedback.

 

[Bon]

Do you mean fake like unlicensed copies of reference boards?

Proccessors, graphics card, hard drives, everything, seen it all been sold on there.

 

[Dark Warrior]

Board - Abit IX38 QuadGT Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-E DDR 2
CPU - Intel Q9450 Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz 1333MHz 12MB
Memory - 4 x 1Gb Crucial Ballistix PC2 8500 1066 mhz
Cooling - XIGMATEK HDT-S1283
PSU - 800W ORYXX "TITAN" SILENT, DUAL 12V RAIL

All from ebay in last 6months. no issues

plus
HHD - 4 x 500Gb Seagate Barracuda sata
Graphics - 1Gb HIS Radeon 4670 IceQ4 pci-e
Drives - 1 x Pioneer DVDRW A15 sata & 1 x Samsung 22x DVD±RW sata Lightscribe

 

[AL21784]

Mine

Board - Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3
CPU - AMD Phenom 2 x4 940 3ghz
Memory - OCZ 4GB (4x1GB) 1066MHz DDR2
GFX - BFG 8800gts OC2 640mb
PSU - Corsair 630w modular
Hdd's, seagate barracuda 250gb + WD 320gb storage
Samsung 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter
all thrown into a black and red Thermaltake Xaser 2 with 4 internal fans with a fan controller

apart from the GFX card, all from overclockers

AL

 

[Raffles]

I'm getting worried about these Gigabyte boards now. Although I don't put bloat-ware on them, so they seem pretty stable for test beds. I use embedded RISC stuff for production (a bit like John C - but no where near as good ).

 

[John C]

Ah the countless hours of my life I have dedicated to embedded RISC programming.

Your the first one to ever notice Raff, so thanks

 

[Pmr Man]

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-95GT1 good graphics card, the 9500gt series, its got a good amount of memory etc. i reccomend you upgrade to a minimum of 2.6ghz dual core but if you've got the money make it a quad core and go for a 9800GT for a gpu. love this website (www.novatech.co.uk) mostly cheap and good service. can't say i know too much though

 

[sumo89]

stokecity, i can run DOW2 at full spec, and i have a phenom 9550 quad 2.2ghz, 4gb ram, geforce 9600gt and running vista 32 bit. Only cost me about £350.
Except theres a bug in the game that causes it to frequently crash at full spec anyway.