Oh no! PC died - spen for replacement (VR content)

[paolow]

Dear all,

I popped to the shops and on return my poor old PC has had a hardware failure that I'm guessing is a MOBO issue.
With exciting technologies around the corner it would be foolish to ignore the min specs for the Rift etc when speccing its replacement so I am looking for a PC with > an i5 4590 and an Nvidia 970.
To be honest this couldn't have come at a worse time financially but I found the following system:

http://www.ebuyer.com/734660-pc-specialist-vanquis...

which seems reasonable?

My question is then - if you had up to 1k to burn on a new build VR ready PC - would this do you?

Also - spen for replacement - I mean spec! sorry - but I'm writing this on an ancient laptop!

Edited by paolow on Saturday 6th February 20:18

[mikef]

I've found PCSpecialist very good. You might save up to £50 sourcing the components separarately, but for that you get a single courier delivery, tidy build, burn-in test and warranty. This looks sound. The only improvement I can think of is a proper job SSD

[paolow]

mikef said:

I've found PCSpecialist very good. You might save up to £50 sourcing the components separarately, but for that you get a single courier delivery, tidy build, burn-in test and warranty. This looks sound. The only improvement I can think of is a proper job SSD

Thanks for the feedback - I have a relatively new 128 Crucial SSD in my current machine that I'd be very tempted to use as the O/S system (if it has survived) so like the fact it comes with the windows disk! It seems to tick all the relevant boxes though.
Laughably my current machine has a games HDD of about 120gb so am really looking forward to having some space!

[Turn7]

Another positive vote for PC specialist here.....

[paolow]

Hi all - thanks for the tips!

I tried PC Specialist and came up with a pretty tidy machine at £900 which is a bit of a sting but at least I can stipulate windows 7 pro which, rightly or wrongly, would be my preference.....

Ill try comparing it to the one Scan prepped as above and see how they are back to back.

I could build the machine - but - as stated above when you haven't got one its nice to have everything turn up in a timely fashion all in one hit and ready to go.

I did state a 1k budget but thats a pretty arbitrary figure - just really to give some sort of paramaters to the spec!