Who could afford over £4,000 for a PC!?

NarChaDBaueR · 2 Jun 2006 at 18:51

yea its a shame i could only get the 24" model otherwise there would have been 3 of the bigger ones, but hey i think they will do for playing cs:s @ 800*600

Mr Jones · 2 Jun 2006 at 19:06

I wonder if it's possible to have either
3 Dell 30" monitors and have a Matrox(sp?) 3head for Surround gaming...
or perhaps 3 Projectors?!

OMG! THREE Projects for surround gaming, how wicked is that?

NarChaDBaueR · 2 Jun 2006 at 19:09

How clear could this projector be and how big could the picture be??
Viewsonic PJ406D SVGA DLP Projector (PJ-001-VS)
Say for using on a media centre pc??
Jack

kinggost · 2 Jun 2006 at 19:13

I spent neary 4k while back but not worth much now but bin good while it lasted

Im getting a chq for being made redundent worked at the place for a while so i think that going to be 3k so ocuk again i think lol

Tommy B · 2 Jun 2006 at 20:24

It's not so much the case of having the most powerful pc, but more the latest tech.

EG.

Socket 939 64 4000+
AGP 7800GT
1GB DDR1

or

Socket AM2 X2 4000+
PCI-E 7800GT
1GB DDR2

kinggost · 2 Jun 2006 at 20:27

i got to say my spec in my sig and it looks old allready

poltergeist666 · 2 Jun 2006 at 20:34

kinggost said:
i got to say my spec in my sig and it looks old allready

Looks like more than a capable rig to me.

kinggost · 2 Jun 2006 at 20:37

poltergeist666 said:
Looks like more than a capable rig to me.

it is but i have a dell 2405fpw and have all game at 1920X1200 and like every thing up all so all the latist games stutter

locutus12 · 2 Jun 2006 at 21:54

the ammount you would pay in VAT on these is sickening... VAT is evil :mad:

InSanCen · 2 Jun 2006 at 22:18

danceMB said:
I was browsing around today, and saw a machine that was more than £4,000. I was literally quite amazed at how high priced this was, and looking at the difference in price between machines bought here, all I could see was a £1,000 excess price tag for liquid-cooling.

Would anyone be mad to pay such an extortinate price elsewhere when you have the best machines to buy from here already?

I know 3 people with £10,000+ Pc's, I built them

admittedly, a large portion of that is tied up in 15K SCSI Drives and LSI controllers...

Screen's also represent a fair percentage, most of them run Dual 21" LCD's

kinggost · 2 Jun 2006 at 22:24

locutus12 said:
the ammount you would pay in VAT on these is sickening... VAT is evil

i wanted to put it thought my uncles bisness but cant really when it a really high end comp

Tommy B · 3 Jun 2006 at 00:36

There are ways of getting around VAT.

Townlea · 3 Jun 2006 at 00:49

Tommy B said:
There are ways of getting around VAT.

Like??? lol

Mr Jones · 3 Jun 2006 at 01:33

Townlea said:
Like??? lol

Working for Gordon Brown?

poltergeist666 · 3 Jun 2006 at 04:11

Dr Jones said:
Working for Gordon Brown?

I think I'd rather pay the VAT than work for that slimeball.

semi-pro waster · 3 Jun 2006 at 09:15

Townlea said:
Like??? lol

Most obvious one is simply to be a VAT registered business, it has been a while since I did anything on taxation but I think that any business with a turnover of less than £50,000 can choose to be VAT registered so they can claim it back and any business over £50,000 has to be VAT registered or something along those lines. However anything you claim must be a justifiable business expense i.e. 2x top end graphics cards are difficult to explain away when the most graphically demanding thing your business does is Powerpoint presentations.

InSanCen · 3 Jun 2006 at 09:39

Claim it as a Display Machine... it acts as Advertising, a Showcase of what you can do. It has to be top end if that's the segemnt of the marketyou are aiming at.

Townlea · 3 Jun 2006 at 12:15

semi-pro waster said:
Most obvious one is simply to be a VAT registered business, it has been a while since I did anything on taxation but I think that any business with a turnover of less than £50,000 can choose to be VAT registered so they can claim it back and any business over £50,000 has to be VAT registered or something along those lines. However anything you claim must be a justifiable business expense i.e. 2x top end graphics cards are difficult to explain away when the most graphically demanding thing your business does is Powerpoint presentations.

Yes I do know that but you are limited on what you buy. even buying a single 7900GTX wouldn't be easier... But buying a £3k system is obvously going to be easy peasy (jus Kiddin)

Tommy B · 3 Jun 2006 at 16:47

poltergeist666 said:
I think I'd rather pay the VAT than work for that slimeball.

Quite right!

I can't see how anyone could possibly like him. His philosophy of life is work hard, get taxed hard.

daz · 3 Jun 2006 at 17:58

I think I would be going for multi-chip DLP projectors for ~£20k coupled with a nice electric screen, as well as 4 raptors in RAID 1+0 with a hardware RAID card... (why are people using the onboard guff?)

Two things that really make a difference when using your PC - the screen/monitor, and the hard drive speed.