[mangoh]

(Original post by SMed)
CPU: i5 2500K (bought in the US for £135)
RAM: Patriot 8GB dual channel DDR3 1600Mhz (bought in the US for £37 (£31 if I can figure out to do the rebate))
Case: Fractal Design R3 (bought used for £40)
GPU: Asus ATI Radeon HD 7850 (bought new for £180)
Cooler Gelid Tranquillo (bought new for £23)
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600 watt modular (bought new for £70)
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (bought new for £76.99)
Storage: Hitachi 2.5" 500GB HDD (already had) + Crucial M4 128GB SSD (bought new for £135)
Monitor: Dell Ultra Sharp U2311H 23" IPS (bought used for £124)
Keyboard: Microsoft Sidewinder X4 (bought new for £32)
Mouse: Logitech MX518 (bought used for £25)
Speakers: Fostex PM0.5 active monitors (bought used for £100) and Mission active subwoofer (bought used for £40)

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TOTAL so far: £1018


The desks were free, printer was £30, lamps £16 for both, book case was £30 or £40 I think? Drawers were £20, chair was £30.

I suppose you could get a poverty spec iMac if they start at £1000.

Nice set up!

Good find but can I ask you if the computer is loud?

I know you have a cooling tower but it was fairly cheap

[SMed]

(Original post by mangoh)
Nice set up!

Good find but can I ask you if the computer is loud?

I know you have a cooling tower but it was fairly cheap

I have a fan controller also, coupled with the very quiet R3 case. It's almost silent, I can only hear it everything else in the room is dead silent, I can hear a slight hum. It's very quiet.

[C4OShea]

(Original post by mangoh)
Nice set up!

Good find but can I ask you if the computer is loud?

I know you have a cooling tower but it was fairly cheap

(Original post by mangoh)
Nice set up!

Good find but can I ask you if the computer is loud?

I know you have a cooling tower but it was fairly cheap

(Original post by SMed)
I have a fan controller also, coupled with the very quiet R3 case. It's almost silent, I can only hear it everything else in the room is dead silent, I can hear a slight hum. It's very quiet.

I second that. I have recently put my R3 on my desk as i have given one monitor to the wife, the only hum i can hear is from the HDD but that is only if the room is silent and i am not typing away - the distance being 3 feet from my ears

[SMed]

(Original post by C4OShea)
I second that. I have recently put my R3 on my desk as i have given one monitor to the wife, the only hum i can hear is from the HDD but that is only if the room is silent and i am not typing away - the distance being 3 feet from my ears

I only use 2.5" drives as they're practically silent.

[Fuaadh0]

(Original post by elia)
The Holy Trinity - iMac, iPad and iPhone. Somebody clearly isn't on a student budget.

You missed the MacBook air :P lol.. Kinda true, the pros of working whilst still in school xD

(Original post by mangoh)
Let me guess... You like Apple!

Nice setup man total cost? (can't see if iPad first/second etc...

Nah I hate them xD

Thnks dude, Erm total cost, I haven't counted itup but let's see 2200 for iMac, 1080 for MBA, 500 iPhone, 400 iPad 3, iPod touch 4th 180, Wacom intuos 4 280, 100 iPod nano watch, so somewhere around £4500..

[C4OShea]

(Original post by SMed)
I only use 2.5" drives as they're practically silent.

£115 for my 3TB HDD was steep enough i couldn't afford those smaller drives at that capacity

[SMed]

Found some 1TB 2.5" drives for £60 a piece. I think a 2TB 3.5" run about £75-80 atm. I don't really need much storage tbh, I don't store lots of films/series right now, though it may change in the future.

[Wookie42]

(Original post by SMed)
Everything, literally everything you see in my workspace pic below cost less than one iMac or Macbook.

"TOTAL so far: £1018"

My 2012 £850 MacBook Air begs to differ

Very nice setup though, I am jelly.

Also, what filter/whatever did you use on that image of your desk? Looks tasty

[I am Ace]

jees, I am so jealous of people posting some of these pictures! I sit on a wooden chair with three wooden poles as back supports, that's right; no spiny padded comforter, I'm a hardcore Scotsman!...with a deformed spine... Any-who, I have a desk with a laptop on it and some pencils, and my advanced mechanics book, with my calculator, ruler, rubber and post it's! Yea, let's see you's top that, bitches

[SMed]

(Original post by Wookie42)
"TOTAL so far: £1018"

My 2012 £850 MacBook Air begs to differ

Very nice setup though, I am jelly.

Also, what filter/whatever did you use on that image of your desk? Looks tasty

Good thing I didn't say Macbook Air then.

There's no filter added, that's just how I process my images in photoshop, I don't use filters.

[Wookie42]

(Original post by SMed)
Good thing I didn't say Macbook Air then.

There's no filter added, that's just how I process my images in photoshop, I don't use filters.

...but the base Air and base Pro are the same price

Fair enough

[Astronomical]

Desk of champions right here.

[C4OShea]

(Original post by Astronomical)
Desk of champions right here.

but which league?

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by Wookie42)
...but the base Air and base Pro are the same price

Fair enough

That.. isn't.. true

[Maerzin]

(Original post by hassi94)
That.. isn't.. true

I think he meant the 13 inch Air. The 11 inch is a fair bit cheaper.

[Wookie42]

(Original post by hassi94)
That.. isn't.. true

Ok... base 13"

[itsmyname]

(Original post by SMed)
Finally got some much needed office furniture. Got a small chest of drawers for under the desk where I can finally throw in all my stationary and nerd junk. Also put up that bookcase today to get rid of the stacks of books and piles of stuff sitting on the floor in the corner.

Got the Virgin V+ HD box on top of the drawers under the desk to the right, connected to the monitor, with audio running through the PC's sound card.

Also got a subwoofer under the desk now, much needed for games and films/tv.

It's mostly done now.

Your room just looks awesome as ****.. I mean everything from the wallpaper to the ambience from the lamps Lol

I'm jel bro

[SMed]

(Original post by itsmyname)
Your room just looks awesome as ****.. I mean everything from the wallpaper to the ambience from the lamps Lol

I'm jel bro

Thanks man. But, the wallpaper? Really? I hate it!

[Matthew P]

Man some of you guys/gals are tidy...

Networking crap, nintendo wii and an external hdd hiding behind the small monitor

I can't even remember specs of my PC, build it almost a year ago. i7 2600k (OC to 4.4GHz), GTX 570 (going to get a new card in 2013 I think)

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by C4OShea)
Length is not an issue. Everything fits perfectly, have not had a single problem with this. My bet would just be to visualise everything. Below are the pics of my build from start to finish.



Sorry for the nerd Pr0n

Wheres your gpu
kinda expect one as you built it