Help me convince A friend that they are making a mistake! - Hardware & Software

I have a friend on Steam who just ordered a £1000 build from a computer store, the specs he was quoted from the store for his £1000 are: A 6 core AMD A GTX 560 800w PSU 8GB RAM I am trying to convince him he could get a much much better build for £1000 and to cancel the order before its too late. He is only using it for gaming and web browsing so the 6 core and 8GB of RAM is a complete waste. He could get a killer Sandybridge build for £1000! He is not into PC parts and has a limited knowledge and I think the guy in the store is taking him for a ride, he told him that Sandybridge has "stability" issues and a 6 core is more future proof. Please help me convince him guys!

[QUOTE=Milky;28687269]using it for gaming[/QUOTE] Sounds good for gaming to me.

The Friend is me by the way.

show him benchmarks I'm pretty sure you could get 2500k, SLi capable maybe 570 definitely 560 for that much [editline]19th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CaMpEr_GuRL;28687350]The Friend is me by the way.[/QUOTE] well then stop being dumb

[url=http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/f691b3d929ed4dae9e4887c485a6999a]HERE[/url] is a quick build I did on SCAN which is just under £1000 and has a i5 2500K and a GTX 580!

assuming you need an OS, [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/21764e37a4f84c2fa3ab7c21e7268d68[/url] [editline]19th March 2011[/editline] if not you could fit a vertex 2 in there

[QUOTE=reapaninja;28687421]assuming you need an OS, [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/21764e37a4f84c2fa3ab7c21e7268d68[/url] [editline]19th March 2011[/editline] if not you could fit a vertex 2 in there[/QUOTE] That's much better than my rush job.

[QUOTE=Milky;28687376][url=http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/f691b3d929ed4dae9e4887c485a6999a]HERE[/url] is a quick build I did on SCAN which is just under £1000 and has a i5 2500K and a GTX 580![/QUOTE] ehh no heatsink, and the difference between a 570 and 580 isn't worth the cash when you could use it to improve other parts (like the case, the define XL is ridiculously cheap right now)

[QUOTE=reapaninja;28687508]ehh no heatsink, and the difference between a 570 and 580 isn't worth the cash when you could use it to improve other parts (like the case, the define XL is ridiculously cheap right now)[/QUOTE] It was only a 5 second jobbie to get an idea on prices etc. [editline]19th March 2011[/editline] Oh well he decided to get it anyway. It was worth a shot.

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It has a 12 Month warranty anyway so if something does fuck up i can easily replace it with the parts you're telling me to replace, no big fucking deal, it's not like it is your money anyway.

yeah it's not like each individual part comes with a warranty anyway oh no wait shit they do

Yeah exactly, 12 months warranty on the whole computer, everything inside it aswell as the case, so if something does fuck up, i will replace it with the parts you and Milky suggested, but for now i just want a computer that can actually run something other than Half Life 1.

in store replacements are better then testing parts in your rig then rmaing them, however I've only needed to use ipr twice, once for a headset and once for... the same headset :/

[QUOTE=CaMpEr_GuRL;28690854]It has a 12 Month warranty anyway so if something does fuck up i can easily replace it with the parts you're telling me to replace, no big fucking deal, it's not like it is your money anyway.[/QUOTE] The warranty includes a full refund? Better check your warranty terms, because warranties usually only cover parts and labor. Brick and mortar stores have this much more than online retailers because them getting hit with an expensive merchandise item like that that sharply depreciates in value over the course of a year. They gotta protect their interests, especially in an economy this bad.

6 cores umm are you gonna render big movies or do 3d modelling?/? if not go for quad core. i cant call any chill games that actually use those 6 cores and i doubt with the current game industry there will even b a decent game that uses those 6 cores. same counts for the RAM its just too much. im on a 2+ year old Q9450 (4 cores) and games just run fine, i could use a better GPU but thats a different story!

[QUOTE=Zeemlapje;28706756]6 cores umm are you gonna render big movies or do 3d modelling?/? if not go for quad core. i cant call any chill games that actually use those 6 cores and i doubt with the current game industry there will even b a decent game that uses those 6 cores. same counts for the RAM its just too much. im on a 2+ year old Q9450 (4 cores) and games just run fine, i could use a better GPU but thats a different story![/QUOTE] He already bought it, he was being dumb, a 5 minute call to the shop to change the specs and he could have had a vastly better PC for his £1000.

[QUOTE=Milky;28709669]He already bought it, he was being dumb, a 5 minute call to the shop to change the specs and he could have had a vastly better PC for his £1000.[/QUOTE] Thing is. I would rather a computer I know that worked straight out the box or if it was defective, I could send straight back and it get it repaired then a computer that I made myself which was only slightly better but if one of the parts was defective I would have to send it back, if I could anyway.

12 months warranty? Don't most parts from Newegg have longer ones?

[QUOTE=Bytecry;28709842]Thing is. I would rather a computer I know that worked straight out the box or if it was defective, I could send straight back and it get it repaired then a computer that I made myself which was only slightly better but if one of the parts was defective I would have to send it back, if I could anyway.[/QUOTE] Re-read it, I said he could have called the shop who is building it to change the specs, that wont affect the warranty.

[QUOTE=CaMpEr_GuRL;28691987]Yeah exactly, 12 months warranty on the whole computer, everything inside it aswell as the case, so if something does fuck up, i will replace it with the parts you and Milky suggested, but for now i just want a computer that can actually run something other than Half Life 1.[/QUOTE] Holy shit you're an idiot.

[QUOTE=reapaninja;28687359]show him benchmarks I'm pretty sure you could get 2500k, SLi capable maybe 570 definitely 560 for that much [editline]19th March 2011[/editline] well then stop being dumb[/QUOTE] I did only the other week.

I bet a "In-store Computer Expert" told him to buy that computer. Reminds me of someones mom who payed 50$ CAD to get her computer "Set up". Basically, plug in the cables and turn it on.