Beer_Monster

IMO, the ATI’s are best bang/buck cards at the minute…..sure, if you have a spare £400 go for the 580, screw it, have 2. 🙂

hmmm, horses for courses, I just specced a similar set up from PC specalists & parts from overclockers ( not the cheapest for parts) and the pre-built set up was £1350 while the set up for parts was £1150. It wasn’t an exact match, but as close as i could. The prebuilt was at stock speed while the parts set up was part of an Overclocked Bundle @ 4.4Ghz.

I was going to say at least the pre-built system would have a decent warrenty with it, but it states 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)……but you get a 1 year guarantee with anything, and 3 years for labour??? doesn’t sound worth the ink it’s written in, what could possible go wrong with the “labour”?

It is sooooo simple to throw a few components in a case and spend as long as you want with the cable management.

I sooner have £200 in my pocket or upgrade a few bits.

Parts set up:

Krypton Z68 590i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle £235.20
(£196.00) £235.20
(£196.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.98
(£66.65) £79.98
(£66.65)
Options applied to the above product:
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
IIyama Prolite E2473HDS 24″ Widescreen LED Monitor – Black IIyama Prolite E2473HDS 24″ Widescreen LED Monitor – Black £143.99
(£119.99) £143.99
(£119.99)
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance ’80 Plus Bronze’ Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK) Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance ’80 Plus Bronze’ Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK) £87.98
(£73.32) £87.98
(£73.32)
Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case – Black Pearl Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case – Black Pearl £84.98
(£70.82) £84.98
(£70.82)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit – OEM (GFC-02050) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit – OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5″ SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5″ SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
LiteOn iHBS112-37 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive – Black (OEM) LiteOn iHBS112-37 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive – Black (OEM) £66.98
(£55.82) £66.98
(£55.82)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache – OEM (HD103SJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache – OEM (HD103SJ) £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
Sub Total : £943.39
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £22.20
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £193.12
Total : £1,158.71

PC Specalist:

Case
FRACTAL DESIGN R3 – BLACK PEARL CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX

Memory (RAM)
4GB KINGSTON HYPER-X SPECIAL EDITION GREY – DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 2GB KIT)

Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ HD6950 – 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP – DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable

Memory – 1st Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
80GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 90MB/sW)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£79)

Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86)

Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit – inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Monitor
IIYAMA E2473HDS 24″ LED WIDESCREEN, 2 x HDMI/DVI-D HD 1920×1080 (£169)

Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time
Standard Build – Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Quantity 1

£1344 inc VAT and Delivery.

just had 10 mins on Caspian Border.

Just WOW. Hopefully get a decent XDC turn out tonight to put it through it’s paces. 🙂

So looking forward to the full game now. This is gonna put XDC back on the map. 😛

one thing i found whilst trawling the BF3 forums regarding squads.

“Yes” to the following squad features for BF3:

– Integrated Squads
– Squad Leaders (SL)
– Name the Squad
– Toggle “VoIP encouraged” within the squad
– Toggle language used in squad (French, Russian, Spanish)
– Toggle the function of the squad
o.. Transport
o.. Armor
o.. Sniper
o.. Aircraft
– SL only spawn
– SL deployable spawn
– SL issue orders with Commo Rose & big map interface
– SL has ability to view the orders of other squads
– SL ability to request support
– SL & Sniper request Fire Support (Arty & CAS) with Commander approval
– Two channel VoIP with squad internal and channel to communicate with commander and other squad leaders
– Ability to mute other players
– Ability to kick from squad
– Ability to lock squad
– Status management (Health, Ammo, Repair) depicted
o.. Individual player
o.. Individual vehicle
o.. Overall squad

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Samething RE-organized

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From BF2
– Integrated Squads
– Squad Leaders (SL)
– Name the Squad
– SL only spawn
– SL issue orders with Commo Rose & big map interface
– SL ability to request support
– Two channel VoIP with squad internal and channel to communicate with commander
– Ability to mute other players
– Ability to kick from squad
– Ability to lock squad

From BF2142
– SL deployable spawn

**New**
– Toggle “VoIP encouraged” within the squad
– Toggle language used in squad (French, Russian, Spanish)
– Toggle the function of the squad [common practice in the Project Reality Mod]
o.. Transport
o.. Armor
o.. Sniper
o.. Aircraft
– SL has ability to view the orders of other squads
– SL & Sniper request Fire Support (Arty & CAS) with Commander approval
– Command channel ability to talk to other squad leaders
– Status management (Health, Ammo, Repair) depicted
o.. Individual player
o.. Individual vehicle
o.. Overall squad

The beta is a bit frustrating how they have disabled squad management.

It’s going to be a long 2 weeks between the end of beta and it going live 🙂

1st impressions….i thinks i likes it….a lot 😀

……or not.

Haven’t been able to get on a single server. It’s rammed. 🙁

Good idea, I’d certainly sooner not use Origin ,but I guess it’s a necessary evil.

Username – XDCBeerMonsterUK

And yeah, get the BF3 forum up……