New pieces of kit for a pc at Uni

[Lagz]

As Big.Wayne pointed out, this is completely ridiculous for uni. If you make the most of the uni experience you will barely touch your PC, so it really is a complete waste of money that you could spend on beer.

As for three monitors, if you are living in student accommodation I reckon it's pretty unlikely that the desk they provide will even be big enough. You will also have to lug the things around every time you move (which might be up to 6 times a year if your uni kicks you out between each term).

In terms of work, I did a computer science degree and can safely say that you will never need more computational power than you can get from a £300 budget machine. Still. . . each to their own! I would recommend at least waiting a term before you splash out though. You may well get to uni and find that it's nothing like you thought it would be. . .

 

[egnshane]

I agree with Lagz, I personally have seen a few computer science courses. My girlfriend is doing a degree incomputer science at manchester ino and her netbook handles everything fine.

You definitely don't require that equipment, but that is up to you.

And the moving it around could be an issue, some places kick you out quite a lot.

 

[shaffaaf27]

i disagree. I went 2 years ago to do a electronic engineering corse, and i made a 1500 PC. Watercooled, dual monitors, the lot.
Lan parties, and gaming societies were very fun, and i didn't need a notebook as i wrote my notes on paper. I also had a ps3 and people would come over to my room to socialise (although it helped that i also had a hookah/shishapipe).

It didn't hender my uni experience, but i did end up selling it because lugging it on the train was getting annoying, so i built a micro atx system.

that was my personal problem with it, my laziness. If you aren't as lazy as me, or transport isnt a problem, i say go for it.
ii

 

[PermaBanned]

Even this is overkill...

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.98
(£122.54) £143.98
(£122.54)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £128.98
(£109.77) £128.98
(£109.77)
LG E2240T 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £117.49
(£99.99) £117.49
(£99.99)
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £84.99
(£72.33) £84.99
(£72.33)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £58.74
(£49.99) £58.74
(£49.99)
Be Quiet! Straight Power E7 600W Power Supply £56.99
(£48.50) £56.99
(£48.50)
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD6402AAEX) £54.99
(£46.80) £54.99
(£46.80)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £24.99
(£21.27) £24.99
(£21.27)
Samsung SH-S223L/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £637.56
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £113.54
Total : £762.35

 

[Chay525]

lol hi guys, I think i might have made the question a bit confusing, its for Uni work and gaming, the idea is to to build something redic that will last about 4 years that can still blast games as i really cant be bothered to play console, so yeah its for work but its also for recreation when at home which is only 11 weeks out of the year the rest of the term holidays i can stay in halls and only have to move my sutff out once a year.

About the screens, it works out at something like 180cm all in a straight line put together, and the desk they supply in the rooms i have applied for are big enough to take all 3 and i will angle them reducing total length anyway

*I have knocked a monitor off as i forgot about my laptop

 

[Chay525]

If anyone is intrested the final spec of the rig i built is in my Sig now and all i can say is WOW at the perfomance of this new machine, thanks for all the help as well. might add pics if you guys care lol.

 

[Si105]

pics.

 

[iNPUt]

Your sig is too big, read the FAQ, nice build though.

 

[RJC]

Indeed, nice build.

Come on where's the pics!

 

[Chay525]

Very bad pics with my ibrick, cant post pics of the screen set up or any of it properly done yet as it all has to be in boxes and ready to go to move in tomorrow so i will upload pics some time tomorrow when i have done that!

Maybe if u open them on http://tshoo.com/4.JPG and http://tshoo.com/3.JPG it will be easier to view lol. sorry

 

[Jony27]

uhhmm is that a charity box beside your monitor?

 

[whitecrook]

It looks like a mug with a glass in it.

As for the OP, looks like a really nice setup and the justification for the 3 screens is fine, 600 is a mid-price when talking about top end screens, and you are getting 3 x 24 which is a lot of screen estate.

I would look towards some kind of laptop as doing a comp sci degree, sometimes you'll want to do some stuff in uni or at a friends place or something and it's no good having all the power if you can't use it. Don't need to be a uber powerful laptop.

 

[Chay525]

uhhmm is that a charity box beside your monitor?

haha its a beer stubby ( Australian thing ) around a glass of ice cold water as i have a nasty hang over at the moment.

As for a laptop i have a good friend who is going to let me use a fairly powerfull dell xps he got a while ago in exchange for letting him bomb my room and abuse the eye finity set up.

ill add more pics tomorrow when i eventually manage to set it all up in my tiny room!