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drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 18:55

The case was around £280, 7" touchscreen TFT

Asus M2N-E mobo
AMD 64 x2 5000 CPU
1GB RAM (Easily upgraded though)
80GB HDD (Although any size could be put in there, I'd also do a deal on filling it with films/tv epidoes and HD films if anyone was interested)
Geforce 8500GT graphics card with HDMI out
USB Wifi card included
Pioneer DVD-RW drive

Any idea how much I should ask for? Anyone interested?

[Edited on 22-05-2009 by drunkenfool]

[Edited on 27-05-2009 by drunkenfool]

Doug

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22nd May 09 at 19:00

I may be interested, wont need to do a deal on the hard drive though

Got a figure in mind?

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 19:06

£275?

[Edited on 22-05-2009 by drunkenfool]

Bart

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22nd May 09 at 21:02

are you joking?
For the sake of a fiver, whos going to risk buying it off a forum and the case NOT being BRAND new?

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 21:04

The case on its own was £280 so you're getting a fiver off that and all the internal bits for free

Bart

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22nd May 09 at 21:59

lol, didnt read it properly... a bit more of a bargin that I first thought then

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 22:00

Right, here's some pics...

Flip down panel on the front with USB, sound and firewire connections, plus a memory card reader

Big heatsink on the chipset, no fan. Copper CPU cooler on the CPU with a large fan, it was the biggest (hence slower fan and quieter) cooler I could fit in there

Graphics card is also fanless

6 onboard SATA connectors (The C drive in there is IDE, which means all 6 are free for more storage)

and two sticks of decent RAM. Theres another 2 slots free for upgrades too

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 22:04

quote:
Originally posted by Bart
lol, didnt read it properly... a bit more of a bargin that I first thought then

hehe, ill let u off then

Yeah, it cost about £550 to build about 6 or 7 months ago but my parents never use it so its a waste of money really. I figure the sooner they sell it again the more money they will recoup back.

Toby

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22nd May 09 at 22:44

to be honest, no bluray support, no hd audio ( i believe that that graphics card is not able to produce hd audio), the size of iit and a lacking storgae space means that this is less of a bargin than made out. Yes i appreciate it cost a lot but what you can get new for the same price is unreal

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 23:21

It has got SPDIF out as well, It was connected to a home cinema receiver and played DD/DTS no problems. I had a look on ebay and saw similar specced ones (the basic internals) for £500, and they were in plain cases not ones with built in full colour touchscreens. a 1TB HDD is £60 now brand new, so that and another 1GB of RAM would make them the same spec for way under £500, plus you get a decent case.

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 23:23

If it doesnt sell at this price anyway I will be splitting it for parts cos im sure the parts are worth more than that

ssj_kakarot

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22nd May 09 at 23:34

quote:
Originally posted by CorsaB4ever
to be honest, no bluray support, no hd audio ( i believe that that graphics card is not able to produce hd audio), the size of iit and a lacking storgae space means that this is less of a bargin than made out. Yes i appreciate it cost a lot but what you can get new for the same price is unreal

it is quite a bargain tbh, the internals are a nice spec, yeah no blu ray but you can pick a drive up for Â£60 now, and theres few genuine HD audio graphics/soundcards for less than Â£100 quid, like the xonar hdmi ect.

drunkenfool

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22nd May 09 at 23:53

I dont bother with bluray cos I download all my HD content, hence it not having a bluray drive. I think its a pretty good price too to be fair - fair enough if the internals were in a standard £20 case with a noisy PSU etc., but you gotta remember that the price of the case wont depreciate anywhere near as fast as the components will.

AndyKent

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23rd May 09 at 07:06

Maybe interested.

How big is the case exactly, or a link to the exact one? I've been looking at building myself a media server recently anyway - this could be exactly what I'm after......

Oh, and a HDD filled with films would be awesome

drunkenfool

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23rd May 09 at 09:50

Case is here....
http://www.x-media.co.uk/Products/VantageX2S/tabid/231/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

A list of (most of) the media that I have. I got about 400 gig of documentaries too, and music

HD Films
http://users.aber.ac.uk/mwp4/HD%20Films.txt

Films
http://users.aber.ac.uk/mwp4/Films.txt

TV Episodes
http://users.aber.ac.uk/mwp4/TV%20Eps.txt

[Edited on 23-05-2009 by drunkenfool]

AndyKent

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23rd May 09 at 10:01

Looks ace. What OS have you got running on it at the moment?

drunkenfool

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23rd May 09 at 10:49

Win XP pro SP3

Cavey

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23rd May 09 at 11:41

I think that's very well priced tbh, for me the case is too big for what i'm after tho.

What's the use of the front panel out of interest? Can you use it as a small monitor essentially? e.g Scroll through films etc while watching stuff through the machine?

drunkenfool

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23rd May 09 at 11:57

Yeah you can, just use it as a touchscreen monitor. Handy for putting on music without having to turn on the tv . It also plays winamp visualisations etc, and the case comes with some bespoke software too but I never got around to installing it before I had to leave again (the pc is my parent's and i set it up for them one weekend when i was back but ran out of time!)

AndyKent

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23rd May 09 at 15:32

Just had a measure up of where I wanted to put it and the case is going to be too big

Cavey

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23rd May 09 at 15:36

It was 3mm bigger than where i was thinking of as well (can't afford, but had a measure just in case)

152mm high, i've got 150mm on my TV stand. Doh

drunkenfool

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23rd May 09 at 15:37

Doug

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23rd May 09 at 23:30

How quiet is this set up?

Im thinking about using it for my bedroom to replace my old xbox with media center on it

[Edited on 23-05-2009 by Doug]

Toby

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24th May 09 at 09:54

quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot

quote:
Originally posted by CorsaB4ever
to be honest, no bluray support, no hd audio ( i believe that that graphics card is not able to produce hd audio), the size of iit and a lacking storgae space means that this is less of a bargin than made out. Yes i appreciate it cost a lot but what you can get new for the same price is unreal

it is quite a bargain tbh, the internals are a nice spec, yeah no blu ray but you can pick a drive up for Â£60 now, and theres few genuine HD audio graphics/soundcards for less than Â£100 quid, like the xonar hdmi ect.

and yes while i appreciate that as i said before hand what you can get for the same money imo you can get something better and newer. But thats the way it goes, people spend thousands on cars etc and they might be a brilliant spec but your never going to make what us worth as theres always something cheaper if you get me

Jas

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24th May 09 at 10:03

your post helps in what way exactly?!

anyone who will be interested in this item knows what they're looking for, therefore your input isn't really needed

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