SomeoneEls
Senior Member
Found the details here
Seems it's a B65 board so it does have one SATA III port and 4 Dimms
Comparison of Intel's LGA 1155 Chipsets
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Found the details here
Seems it's a B65 board so it does have one SATA III port and 4 Dimms
Comparison of Intel's LGA 1155 Chipsets
copacetic
King of the Hippies
Pada
Executive Member
Lenovo PC (incl VAT) = R6,268.86
If you had to build this PC yourself:
Core i7 2600 ~ R3,000
H61 motherboard ~ R500
4GB RAM ~ R200
Windows 7 Pro x64 DSP ~ R1400
DVD-Writer ~ R150
1TB HDD ~ R700 (if you can manage to get one for this price)
Case and PSU ~ R400
Total (incl VAT): R6,350
Price difference is about R100, which ain't that big, however it would cost you in terms of time to build the PC yourself
If you had to build this PC yourself:
Core i7 2600 ~ R3,000
H61 motherboard ~ R500
4GB RAM ~ R200
Windows 7 Pro x64 DSP ~ R1400
DVD-Writer ~ R150
1TB HDD ~ R700 (if you can manage to get one for this price)
Case and PSU ~ R400
Total (incl VAT): R6,350
Price difference is about R100, which ain't that big, however it would cost you in terms of time to build the PC yourself
copacetic
King of the Hippies
Lenovo PC (incl VAT) = R6,268.86
If you had to build this PC yourself:
Core i7 2600 ~ R3,000
H61 motherboard ~ R500
4GB RAM ~ R200
Windows 7 Pro x64 DSP ~ R1400
DVD-Writer ~ R150
1TB HDD ~ R700 (if you can manage to get one for this price)
Case and PSU ~ R400
Total (incl VAT): R6,350
Price difference is about R100, which ain't that big, however it would cost you in terms of time to build the PC yourself
Go away.
Deal is done.
*edit*
If I had built it myself, I would have put an old drive in it, in any case.
killadoob
Honorary Master
Why would you want to spend 3k on a 2600 when a 2500 is 1k cheaper though? Even a 2400 will do the job.
copacetic
King of the Hippies
Because it will be used for various multimedia tasks (DVD encoding and such as well), and the faster it does that, the better.
In any case, for the price, I think it's a good deal. It's all in one piece, has three year warranty, I'm happy.
*edit*
If I was building a PC I'd probably get the 2500 and get better supporting hardware.
Pada
Executive Member
@h0ll0w:
1TB external drive for R650 + another R39 or so for shipping:
http://www.wootware.co.za/samsung-g3-hx-du010ec-1tb-external-hdd.html?SID=tttlab0vspa3mvrj084hrcjr42
@copacetic:
I'm actually curious to know what the difference is between the B65 chipset and the others (eg H61/H67/P67/Z68).
I would also love to know what PSU its got, because the cases that goes for around R400 that includes the PSU are horrible. 2 of the PSU's listed on the spec webpage seemed to be quite efficient if I'm not mistaken: 85% for the 280W and 90% for the 320W.
1TB external drive for R650 + another R39 or so for shipping:
http://www.wootware.co.za/samsung-g3-hx-du010ec-1tb-external-hdd.html?SID=tttlab0vspa3mvrj084hrcjr42
@copacetic:
I'm actually curious to know what the difference is between the B65 chipset and the others (eg H61/H67/P67/Z68).
I would also love to know what PSU its got, because the cases that goes for around R400 that includes the PSU are horrible. 2 of the PSU's listed on the spec webpage seemed to be quite efficient if I'm not mistaken: 85% for the 280W and 90% for the 320W.
copacetic
King of the Hippies
This shows it pretty clearly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155#Original_Sandy_Bridge_Chipsets
From what I can gather, the B65 would be preferable over the H61, but the rest would be preferable over the B65.
I was expecting an H61, so I'm chuffed.
*edit*
H61 supports Ivy Bridge, B65 does not?
No issue though, there.
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