Is this a good-buy?

[nickd01]

Sure looks decent:

http://www.cube247.co.uk/?customise=3&aid=2&am...

4Gb and 1.5Tb of storage and 3 monitors for £1300?!

What have I missed?

[Road2Ruin]

All depends if you need 3 monitors? If you dont then better can be had for cheaper.

[holloway_dave]

That's probably OK. A good 19" monitor is £120, so times 3 that is £360. Storage is cheap, depends on the RAID they are using, but 'Striped RAID' suggestes redundancy, so there's some big disks in there. Probably a several hundred pound 1Gb video card to drive the monitors. That leaves about £700 or so for the rest of the PC (including disk), which seems a little on the high side - but for that amount of storage and none too shabby processor and memory it's pretty OK. Hopefully it's more than a 1 year warranty (I'd wouldn't want my £1300 PC dying in 18 months). I know nothing about the brand, but assuming they are reputable and you're going to get support from them then go for it. I always recommend friends and family buy a 'brand name' (ie HP or Dell) simply for the support - but the price of something like this from Dell would make you cry.

[holloway_dave]

Road2Ruin said:

All depends if you need 3 monitors? If you dont then better can be had for cheaper.

Who really NEEDS three monitors? - WANTS three monitors though

[nickd01]

You're right - I don't NEED 3 monitors, but, hey why not!

But, thinking about it - I'd prefer 2 good quality ones as oppsed to 3 average ones.

Hhmm, and maybe I'd get a NAS for storage and not have it all on the PC.

Hhmm, maybe I'd prefer a smaller cube type box.

Geeze, I'm undecided aren't I ?!

What would you do - £1k to spend for photo editing, and software development. Surfin' is done on the laptop by the missus out of my way!

[TheExcession]

nickd01 said:

What have I missed?

They're including a floppy drive!!!!

As for three monitors, I used to run three, down to two at the moment and I really miss the 3rd, especially when doing coding. 2 monitors for the ID and another for all the help and google pages, email, telnet sessions that I have open. It really comes into it's own when you are testing applications across distributed systems and you can see all of the console windows open at the same time.

Given the choice and some spare cash I'd love to go with a 4 head display, though I've not got enough desk space! I had considered stacking them. In fact in my dreams, and working on the project I have at the moment I could run 6 monitors and still find use for another!

[ThePassenger]

Generally I'd say yes it's a good buy. The only thing is, looking at the pictures they're throwing in 3x19" monitors, they're not individually wide-screen units, which if you've got three of the suckers sat side by side is no big deal
4GB of RAM might give you some irks in Win-XP (you'll 'lose' 250-500 meg, long story, just assume it's buggered off to Spain) but in Vista or a flavour of Linux it'll be golden.