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[Lizzie_Zoom]

Well after 5 years with my old one, I have now had a new desktop built by the company who supply many to educational instutions, including universities, and their students, Reach Data of Coventry.

I took delivery yesterday of (for those who are knowledgeable on these things!):

In a black tiower,
Intel Core i3-3240 CPU
Motherboard for Intel CPU with on-board VGA, sound, network adapters
4 GB memory module
500 GB hard disk drive
DVDRW rewriter drive
Wireless network adapter,
Octigen Midi Tower Case
Apline2 PSU for midi tower case
MS Windows 8 Home Premium
MS Office 2013 PRO DSA

The Windows 8 has been modified for me so it is not operated on a touch screen, but via a traditional mouse, with a "start" button for straight forward, simple, operation.

Now I know the geeks on here will find fault with the chosen system, but for me it is already a delight after using it for 24 hours.  I love the new Windows 8 dispay icons, which I click on. The extra speed is very noticable and now I am really seeing the advantages of being on BT Ifinity Broadband.

[dad1uk]

If it's what you want Lizzie, it doesn't matter what the geeks think....
Enjoy your new toy!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

If it's what you want Lizzie, it doesn't matter what the geeks think....
Enjoy your new toy!!

Thanks!!

[Marks DTM Calib]

On board graphics, blimey

[Seth]

If it's what you want Lizzie, it doesn't matter what the geeks think....
Enjoy your new toy!!

Dead right missus!

[omega3000]

500 GB hard disk drive

Puts my old tower to shame with 40gb  Enjoy the new toy Lizzie 

[MR MISTER]

My pc is 3-4 years old, it has a 1Tb drive. Hardly used any of the physical memory but it still runs slow due to lack of RAM.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

500 GB hard disk drive

Puts my old tower to shame with 40gb  Enjoy the new toy Lizzie 

 

[TheBoy]

On board graphics, blimey

The Ivy Bridge's onboard graphics is very capable if you dismiss games, and very power efficient. Reliability is also vastly improved, esp as 99.9% on non-branded PC cases have no real airflow design.

[TheBoy]

Well after 5 years with my old one, I have now had a new desktop built by the company who supply many to educational instutions, including universities, and their students, Reach Data of Coventry.

I took delivery yesterday of (for those who are knowledgeable on these things!):

In a black tiower,
Intel Core i3-3240 CPU
Motherboard for Intel CPU with on-board VGA, sound, network adapters
4 GB memory module
500 GB hard disk drive
DVDRW rewriter drive
Wireless network adapter,
Octigen Midi Tower Case
Apline2 PSU for midi tower case
MS Windows 8 Home Premium
MS Office 2013 PRO DSA

The Windows 8 has been modified for me so it is not operated on a touch screen, but via a traditional mouse, with a "start" button for straight forward, simple, operation.

Now I know the geeks on here will find fault with the chosen system, but for me it is already a delight after using it for 24 hours.  I love the new Windows 8 dispay icons, which I click on. The extra speed is very noticable and now I am really seeing the advantages of being on BT Ifinity Broadband.

Sounds a balanced PC Lizzie, unlike most of what is advertised. Granted, HDD is tiny by todays standards, but if you don't need more....




Windows 8.1 out next month, should be a freebie upgrade (via Windows Update) for you.

[TheBoy]

If you possibly can wired it to your Homehub, that would be an improvement, as with Infinity/Infinity2, the wifi is usually the limiting factor. And Homehub3's wifi is poor.

[Gaffers]

+1 for the network recommendation, but make sure you use a decent quality network cable otherwise the speed benefits can be nullified.

If you must go WiFi drop the BT/Sky POC and get a D-Link access point, well worth the £30-40.  You configure it like a normal router and then plug it via a network cable in to your ISP's router.  With the Sky router I would struggle to get connection on the sofa a mere 5m from the Access Point (which is upstairs) now with the D-Link even when it has fallen on it's side I still get good connectivity anywhere in the house, when it's the right way up I get good quality connection on the road outside my house past my front garden (which is handy when you use google sat nav and live in a shit GPRS area)

[TheBoy]

I doubt Lizzie will be getting towards the limits of Cat5e cables, even poor quality ones.

The Homehub's Wifi is probably at the better end of ISP provided router Wifi, so range should be "good enough" in most modest homes.  Its the throughput that poor. Not necessarily the fault of the router, just the physics of Wifi.


Lizzie,
For eg, my laptop on Wifi (router is capable of 450Mbps, laptop is standard G) bottoms out at about 17Mbps. On an (150) N adapter in laptop, it bottoms out at about 25Mbps.

Part of my problem is from my living room, I can "see" 34 different WiFi networks.

[Marks DTM Calib]

+1 for the network recommendation, but make sure you use a decent quality network cable otherwise the speed benefits can be nullified.

Bugger off, your going to be very hard pushed to get anywhere near the limit of the cable in any domestic setup where your primary use is connecting to an ISP's port.

When we used to do immunity testing on kit, running Cat5 (basic cheapo), at 1G 110m was easily covered without errors and using better cable 180-190m was easy to.

And thats in the most noisy environemnt possible!

[brendan1983]

Perhaps it just my view but I wouldn't build a PC anymore without an SSD as the primary drive - the benefits of boot speed for me anyway outweigh the (fairly small) cost of it.

If you have a home NAS I can't see why you would really need more than a 100gb SSD