[New PC Time] Ripoff?

[AfterMidnight]

Managed with help through MSN (Word out to my main man Winxzy!) to cut things down in a decent fashion to a build more plausible


Old thread:


For those wondering, yes, I STILL haven't decided on a PC yet.
In the mean time my budget has grown a tad and I'm still saving up more.

This said, my mother REALLY wants me to purchase a comp from a store here called GrafiCall, so I've been compiling several specs on their site.
This is what I came up with:

NZXT Hush Silent (Black, no powersupply) € 109,00
Intel Core i7-920, 2,66Ghz, 8MB Cache, Boxed, S1366 € 269,00
Sweex Wireless LAN PCI Card 300Mbps 802.11n € 39,00
Samsung Spinpoint F1 500GB, 16MB, SATA II € 60,00
Samsung SH-D163B SATA, OEM (Zwart) € 20,00
Zalman CNPS7000C-AlCu, CPU Koeler € 29,00
Zalman ZM-F3, 120mm Silent Fan € 9,00
Agrade Agrade 750 Watt Voeding € 89,00
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium NL, 64bit, OEM € 109,00
Asus P5QL-EM € 89,00
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) Kit PC3-10600 € 149,00
XFX GeForce GTS250 738M, 1GB € 135,00
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Assemblage, € 60

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Total: €1166,00

Now are there things I'm overbudget'ing on or that I really don't need? Or are setups like this just overall pricey? :S

If you want to suggest something else, please note
- I'm an european resident (The Netherlands -> Holland -> Leiden)
- Pickup and delivery warrenty unless it's in Leiden
- I'm not going to assemble ANY parts myself, I cut myself once trying to put in a memory card. so go figure.
- Currently at €1.043, increasing by €50 every weekend.

Cheers for any feedback, sorry for bothering you once more I've been busy since the last thread but all suggestions made there didn't comply with above notes, nor have I been able to find an alike site myself


Edits from this point on are me updating how much I got to spend

[Nikentic]

What mhZ on the kingston ram?

Sweex 5.1 PCI Sound Card, €15
Sweex Wireless LAN PCI Card 300Mbps 802, 11n, €39
Sweex 4 port USB 2.0 PCI, €19

You probably get those in your motherboard.

[AfterMidnight]

1333 MHz
And how can I check for that?
The sound card I care little for, since I only use a headset, usb ports are important'ish - but I really NEED to have the ability to connect to my wireless network :S

Cheers for respondse!

[Demonshade]

save youself 200 euros and go dl a cracked win7 imo. 109 from buying it, 60 from installation. Also, u can get ultimate if you do it yourself, better then home premium, alot better.

[Sayu]

I don't know man, my buddy just got a top-end new pc for less than 1k euro. often times you can get cheaper parts from different stores if you look around a bit. so before spending any money you should wait for someone who knows such stuff and post you cheaper parts(if there are any).

[AfterMidnight]

Hehe, when it comes to my heart and soul thing I care about in life; I prefer keeping thing legal :P but cheers for thinking with me
And I figured I could get the parts cheaper if I worked for it, but assembling them is, for me, a dangerous task

Cheers for thinking with me guys
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A good friend informed me that I needed the 64x bit version for my memory, he'll also help me (if needed) thru the installation process which put me under the 1500 mark; though I'm still about 2 months away from reaching that. ;-;

[Kirth]

Throw Kingston out, get Corsair. Throw assembly costs out, save 60 euro, throw out OS costs and save an additional 100 euro. 750 watt power supply is a bit much, innit?

[AfterMidnight]

Kingston is the only brand they offer.
I cut myself once putting in a memory card, I'm gonna just go ahead and let them do that before I lose a hand.
I need an OS.. and since this computer will be everything for me (till i get a new one in years), I need it to be running something legit to sleep at night.
750 is indeed overboard, but the 600 watt they offer is a different brand and far more expensive.
500 is cutting it close already; and since I want to expand at some point; better play it save.


Cheers for bringing in some thoughts tho!

[Bladestorm]

Kingston is the only brand they offer.
I cut myself once putting in a memory card, I'm gonna just go ahead and let them do that before I lose a hand.
I need an OS.. and since this computer will be everything for me (till i get a new one in years), I need it to be running something legit to sleep at night.
750 is indeed overboard, but the 600 watt they offer is a different brand and far more expensive.
500 is cutting it close already; and since I want to expand at some point; better play it save.


Cheers for bringing in some thoughts tho!

aww, come on, your on an exploits/hacks site and don't want to pirate your windows version? microsoft earns billions every year so one lost copy won't make them sad.

[Iraq]

aww, come on, your on an exploits/hacks site and don't want to pirate your windows version? microsoft earns billions every year so one lost copy won't make them sad.

apparently, paying for windows will get you into heaven.

[AfterMidnight]

I came here merely for model editing at start, though now an exploiter at heart - I'd hate to be punished in a way that'd force me to part.
Hurr hurr!

Anyhow, I think we've got all things covered here; +Rep to Joppe (Sound thing was indeed on the motherboard!) and Kirth for trying