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- Location
- Chester U.K.
I have always been wary of building my own PC probably because I,ve not been confident of my own ability to troubleshoot any consequent problems with the tweaking, i.e. sourcing the correct drivers for stuff etc. Putting the stuff together is the easy part- getting it all to work together afterwards is the daunting bit. I think now though that I may be ready. -I`d like to have a rig that`s built to suite Video editing and being an artist I would like to like to try my hand at ray tracing which I understand needs quite hefty specs. Any suggestions?
Edit :- this will be a slow project, -I`m quite happy with my setup at present, having 3 PC`s in front of me - 2 desktop`s and a laptop.
The Laptop is Vista Home Premium & the desktop`s have near identical specs but run windows 7 Premium and windows 8 Pro.
My screen setup is a little weird, - I have (or will have when the touchscreen monitor arrives) a Dell S2340T and a Samsung LS22A-100 as screen 1& 2 on the windows 8 machine and the Laptop between them.When I want to use the windows 7 machine ,I use "Logmein" in a web browser to remote access it.(the idea is that I can do this on the W8 screen 2 when needed). This way I get the benefits of two screens on my main PC and can still see each machine on its own screen when needed.
I plan to start with a case & PSU and slowly build the PC as and when I can afford the bits. I want this to be a machine that will last me for a couple of years at least, I`ve bought OEM machines until now and they seem designed to fail juuuust after the warranty runs out.
Edit :- this will be a slow project, -I`m quite happy with my setup at present, having 3 PC`s in front of me - 2 desktop`s and a laptop.
The Laptop is Vista Home Premium & the desktop`s have near identical specs but run windows 7 Premium and windows 8 Pro.
My screen setup is a little weird, - I have (or will have when the touchscreen monitor arrives) a Dell S2340T and a Samsung LS22A-100 as screen 1& 2 on the windows 8 machine and the Laptop between them.When I want to use the windows 7 machine ,I use "Logmein" in a web browser to remote access it.(the idea is that I can do this on the W8 screen 2 when needed). This way I get the benefits of two screens on my main PC and can still see each machine on its own screen when needed.
I plan to start with a case & PSU and slowly build the PC as and when I can afford the bits. I want this to be a machine that will last me for a couple of years at least, I`ve bought OEM machines until now and they seem designed to fail juuuust after the warranty runs out.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Poo Edition (& Windows 7 Premium)
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo 2561 (& a Pavillion H.P.P6)
- CPU
- Core i5 i5-2120 / 3.3 GHz (HP= Core i3-2120)
- Motherboard
- ECS H61 MATX (HP =H61 m/Bd)
- Memory
- 8,077 MB DDR3 1333Mhz SDRAM (HP= Same)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Integrated (HP= Palit 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 630)
- Sound Card
- Soundblaster ZxR (Hp= Realtek ALC 656 )
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell S2340T/Samsung SA100 (Hp= SA-100)
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080( HP= Same)
- Hard Drives
- 120GB SSD,2TB 7200rpm SATA II,1.5TB 7200rpm SATA II,USB2 2TB seagate SATA II, USB2 500GB Seagate SATA II, ,USB3 4TB Seagate SATA II , USB3 64GB (Readyboost) Thumb drive, microSD(a) 32GB, microSD(b) 64GB, microSD(c) 2GB in USB adapter (recovery keys),
- PSU
- 240W/(500W)
- Case
- Generic Lenovo(mini Tower)
- Cooling
- Generic single fan(same)
- Keyboard
- Emprex 6310U and Lenovo SK-8861 cordless (Hp=KMO 2004 cordless)
- Mouse
- Tecknet M002 and Logitech T620 Touch mouse & Lenovo cordless (2 workstations) (HP= KMO2002 cordlesss
- Internet Speed
- 100MB
- Browser
- IE11 + Firefox
- Antivirus
- Defender(PC1),McAffee(PC2),Norton 360(PC3).
- Other Info
- I have 3 Systems, this one (lenovo) & the P6 which has nearly identical specs but runs windows 7 (considerably more reliably.)
and a Vista laptop which also has no problems -I actually LIKE vista (ooh - controversial!!)