Mine arrived exactly the same way on Tuesday - including a ripped carry handle! I thought it would be a box within a box as well. Luckily it seems no harm was done and my PC works fine.
Looks good but I’m still setting it up so haven’t too much to report. Certainly far, far faster than the 8 year old PC it replaced but then I wouldn’t expect anything else!
That’s very similar to my build which was delivered yesterday. I used the Fractal G case and swapped the SSD for the intel M.2 SSD based on advice I received here (I had an RX 570 as well but I doubt you would want to change that!).
Anything FPS or RPG (Borderlands, Fallout, POE, Skyrim) tends to be on PS4. So generally games that you really need a mouse to play (in my view anyway) like Civilisation. I may head back into Eve Online at some point as well - but I used to play that with the settings dialled down anyway.
I was...
So this is now in building :) hopefully see it next week! I’m now looking at monitors so any suggestions on a monitor that would match up well with this spec? Ideally no more than £200.
Actually using the intel m.2 ssd, with the case you suggested and a 2TB hdd is the same cost as the spec I’d outlined above (less the usb card as well). So I think I’ll be going with that :)
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
Yeah the motherboard has a usb c port so I can happily drop the card. I have also been playing about with various storage configurations (like dropping the M.2 for a normal SSD) so I’ll factor in your case recommendation and see what I come up with.
So I've been thinking this over and would still prefer to upgrade to a new PC. I've upped my budget a bit and wonder if these are a bit more balanced:
Intel version £956
Case
PCS 6003B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-9500 (3.0GHz) 9MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS®...
Thanks. I was going to buy an SSD and not upgrade but didn’t think about the graphics card/ RAM as well. I’ll look into doing that - or find a bigger budget :)
So back in 2011 I bought this:
COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8H67-M LX SI: MICRO ATX MAINBOARD, LG 1155, SATA 6.0Gb/s
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card...
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I'm looking to buy a new PC later this month and, after weeks of playing around with an AMD build, this weekend I have completely changed my mind and went for a shiney new Sandy Bridge pc. My budget is £850.
Original build was this:
Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD...