expired New Intel Ivy Bridge i7-3770 Custom Built Computer System, $599 @ Budget PC
This was posted 9 months 7 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
http://www.budgetpc.com.au/intel-ivy-bridge-i7-special-syste...
Price $599, Upgrade available.
Pick-up available, shipping to MEL CBD $5.5, Sydney CBD $9.95, more shipping info, please use our online shipping calculator.
- Intel® Core™ i7-3770 Processor (8M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz)
- MSI B75MA-P45(Socket 1155)DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard (Native USB3.0 SATA3 support) 2 x USB3.0, 4 x USB2.0
- 8GB DDR3 1333 Memory
- 1TB SATA3 Hard Drive
- 24x Dual Layer DVD-RW
- ATX Tower Case with 470W Power
- 2 Year RTB Warranty
Upgrade Option:
+Wireless Adapter for FREE
+$99 Windows 7 Home prem 64bit
+$139 Windows 7 Professional 64bit
-$100 downgrade to Intel i5-3470 CPU
Comments (Closed)
+2 votesparker2004au on 17/08/2012 - 10:11 ¶CPU: $305.00
MB: $80
RAM: $45
HDD: $90.00
ODD: $25
Case/PSU: $???? not sureThat's about $545 going off Static Ice and using known PC shops like Megabuy/MSY etc
Not sure on the case and PSU because it's not listed but it seems pretty good value for money if you don't know how to build a PC or can't be bothered building one.
+4 votesCarbonTwelve on 17/08/2012 - 11:42 ¶The HD graphics is built into the CPU. You just need any motherboard with onboard video ports, which AFAIK they all have.
Almost every motherboard has integrated graphics. It's just a backup option for if your cpu doesn't have integrated graphics and you don't have a graphics card, of course they aren't anything special that could handle a 1st person shooter but they should be able to just get by playing wow on lowest settings.
Integrated GPUs have come a long way. There would be no point buying this as a gaming machine unless you were going to spend another few hundred on a decent discrete GPU, but the HD4000 can handle pretty much anything at lowish settings and playable frame rates, including first person shooters such as Crysis.
+20 votesThe Land of Smeg on 17/08/2012 - 11:42 ¶Its not advertised as a gaming PC, specs are fine as is.
+5 votesActually most card run well under what the requirements ask for. I have a GTX 670 running on a 520W PSU. Here is a good example from toms hardware:
+2 votesMost quality name brand PSUs are actually rated higher than what the specs say, as well. My Corsair VX450, for example, is actually capable of something like 560W. Not to mention it's more efficient than a no-name brand. Anyway, that graph shows your card uses a fair amount of power. Add to that, the power the CPU draws, and other peripherals, and you're getting close to your 520W max!
- +4 votes
Not by much though. I have an i5 3570 and a few extra fans with a SSD and HDD. Did a test while running a game a few weeks ago at max while having a lot of back ground programs open and the watts used were under 450. I personally think the requirements are for overclocking, as that will certainly eat a low PSU.
You are right though, a no name PSU can not be trusted.
+2 votesYeah if "low range" means "could run new games on migh-max settings at 1080p at 30-60fps" (benchmarks) these days (not saying it doesn't but some people might think it wouldn't be 5 times faster than a console if you call it "low range").
samfisher5986 on 17/08/2012 - 10:48 ¶A PSU without a brand could easily be something like a SHAW PSU from MSY, it will probably blow up in a few months if you put any actual load on it.
- +1 voteparker2004au on 17/08/2012 - 10:56 ¶
Can you tell us what the PSU is
I'm guessing it's NOT the Lian Li - LL-PS-A470GB which is the only 470w PSU I can find on the site.
+2 votesGreatWhiteHunter on 17/08/2012 - 11:06 ¶I bought a similar PC (without the wireless but with H77 and a better PSU) for $659.95 a few weeks ago….
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/130693323987?ssPageName=STRK:MEWN...
Throw a $100 Intel SSD in and the thing really flies…
- +3 votesCarbonTwelve on 17/08/2012 - 11:43 ¶
Decent price, but the PSU is almost certainly a generic/no-name brand and I wouldn't be trusting an i7 to one of those. If a dodgy PSU dies it can take all your other parts with it.
+2 votesDecent spec there, my mid range gaming rig is still going pretty strong or I may have been tempted. Those considering this it would be worth grabbing the $99 upgrade of Windows 7 home and upgrading to Windows 8 pro for $14.99 when its released: https://windowsupgradeoffer.com/en/Home/ProgramInfo
waits for Windows 8 hate
leonheart1 on 17/08/2012 - 11:54 Comment score below threshold (-10).- +9 votessamfisher5986 on 17/08/2012 - 11:57 ¶
the case doesn't need to support USB 3 to use it on your computer, you just plug it in at the back instead of into your case.
+1 voteleonheart1 on 17/08/2012 - 19:12 ¶Yeah I guess it isn't misleading then.
Still, I'd much prefer to just plug it in the front rather than reach all the way around to the back and that requires a USB 3 compatible case.
+1 votegreenpossum on 18/08/2012 - 10:11 ¶I see what you did there. :) Had to look up the urban dictionary though.
netsurfer on 17/08/2012 - 12:18 Comment score below threshold (1).
Jean-Baptiste on 17/08/2012 - 12:43 ¶I need to get a new PC to do 3D computer modelling using Solidworks. Probably need something with decent enough graphics to do fluid flow modelling aka wind tunnel testing.
Would this set-up be a good option, or would I be better off building something from scratch?
- +1 votesamfisher5986 on 17/08/2012 - 13:01 ¶
Much better off building from scratch, this computer has had its parts picked poorly.
mgowen on 17/08/2012 - 14:16 Comment score below threshold (-4).- netsurfer on 17/08/2012 - 16:40 Comment score below threshold (0).
GreatWhiteHunter on 17/08/2012 - 17:25 Comment score below threshold (0).- netsurfer on 17/08/2012 - 17:49 Comment score below threshold (0).
+2 votesYes, in another 2 years when all the current computer parts go into junk. Frankly speaking, your comment is meaningless as it can not be done at all! If you want something cheap, you will get cheap quality esp. in a matured industry like PC (margins are already very low).
+4 votesspawnpoint on 17/08/2012 - 17:48 ¶10 times better performace for $300. Fully built PC. Bullshit
- +2 votesGreatWhiteHunter on 17/08/2012 - 23:15 ¶
Agreed
According to this, the fastest card you can buy today is not 10 times faster at least at the G3D benchmark
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
The AMD 7770 is about 3.6 times quicker on this measure and costs an extra $135….
If McGowen can find these miracle PC's I'll buy 20 - I just hope they aren't branded Kogan…
angelkulit025 on 17/08/2012 - 16:16 ¶a rep from Budget PC was commenting awhile ago here. Let's see what can they say about this,,hummmm
+1 voteI have been using them for over 2 years now. Even moved my work purchases from the likes of eStore(city software) and Centrecom to them.
Price wise they are similar to MSY but they have much better customer service then MSY. I had a few warranty cases with them before, they handled them fine. Just don't expect to return something after 6 months and expect a direct swap. Generally these warranty claim go back to manufacture. I am still awaiting for a warranty case now but the item is over a year old with 3 years warranty.
+2 votesBudget PC is a fairly new name - used to be known as Suntrom. From memory, the name was only changed in 2009/2010. I've been going to Suntrom / Budget PC since 2001 when I bought a Pentium II-233 Box from them and have never ever had an issue with warranty claims, wrong specifications etc… However like pretty much everyone here, we're all after bargains so I do get tempted often by Centrecom, MSY, MLN etc… and have been burned more than once at these stores (seriously, how hard is it to RMA something as simple as a portable HDD? Absolute insanity when you have to take a laptop in with you to show them what any reasonable HDD scanning tool is telling you only to be told 'well, your software only does a quick scan and thats unreliable, we would do a full surface scan etc………)
Back in the days where PC Repairs were highly profitable, I used to hear the same 'lied about specs' line no matter what store / outlet sold the computer to them, yet they cannot remember what they were told - they merely had the invoice with the details on it, and the parts matched exactly. So, I'm almost going to guess here and say that the people aren't particularly hardware literate and the spec they received is the spec that was listed on the invoice.
I know the guy who owns Budget PC, has been there for quite a few years and can hardly believe the way they conduct their business they would openly go out of their way to put in the wrong specifications. In fact, they're quite knowledgeable and willing to suggest / recommend components for different reasons (i.e. one of the few that you can say 'I need a mid-range gaming PC', and they'll find a suitable specification within your budget - Scorptec is another that comes to mind in that department).
Perhaps this comment is a little biased, but being the only one of two PC stores I completely trust (Scorptec being the other) - I feel I have to make it. :)
+1 voteThe only thing to watch out for B75 motherboard is that it has only one SATA3 port. So, once you get an SSD on it, the 1TB SATA3 hard drive will need to be moved to use SATA2. If you have no interest putting an SSD in it, then there should be no issue.
A simpler board is not necessary a bad thing. The BIOS boot on a simpler board is quicker. Those goodies (extra SATA3/USB3 chips put in by M/B makers) do make BIOS boot takes longer. However, the new UEFI BIOS is much faster than the older BIOS.
- mgowen on 17/08/2012 - 16:50 Comment score below threshold (-6).
realfamilyman on 18/08/2012 - 12:09 ¶Say you guys, can I ask…
I'm so sick and tired of my PC dragging its feet. When I bought it, it flew - but it only took say, six months of XP updates to slow right down. If I open several browser tabs (IE, Firefox, OR Chrome), the pause when switching between tabs is just ridiculous. Minutes sometimes. Where can I find/learn how to choose - the right system/parts, so stinking Microsoft updates (or whatever causes it) doesn't kill system speed for a few/couple of years?
My computer habits are:
- Don't play games
- Do use graphic design software (CorelDRAW)
- Convert several VHS tapes to DVD (one time only tho')
- Convert DVDs to AVI (probably not often tho')
- Web browse lots
- Download large video files lots
- Stream live USA radio lots
- Don't stream video a lot, but when I do, I don't want it to pause ANYMORE! ;-)
And a laptop is not out of the question, as I'm thinking of buying a motorhome. But I'd only consider one, if the manufacturers have stopped playing dirty tricks with the batteries. What I mean is my old Dell P3 its batteries had "timers". Once the battery clocked up a certain number of hours they would "switch off" cells, like the battery was dying - even if the cells themselves were fine. (In order to force you to buy a new battery.) Have they ceased this dirty practice?
If your computer is freezing up like that your hard drive is probably slow and if you upgrade to an SSD you will notice a huge difference. On the other hand it may be that you don't have enough ram to run all of your background proceses, check your task manager and see how much RAM is used. Although for your requirements I would say this PC in the deal is a great buy and will serve you will for all of those. Streaming video pausing is more a fault of your internet than your PC (unless your entire system locks up from resource usage while streaming), only way to fix it is to get a faster connection.
- realfamilyman on 18/08/2012 - 12:27 ¶
Well, I don't know what it is then, but I know I'm sick of it. Most of the time I'm only running Thunderbird (email), Chrome (browser), Spybot (spyware), Avast (antivirus), and Peerblock.
Peerblock was for when I used Bitorrent, which I haven't used lately anyway. But Bitorrent would drag the computer to its knees.
It's ok at the moment… I have 8 tabs open in Chrome. But if I opened say 12 or more tabs, it slows down dramatically.
- greenpossum on 18/08/2012 - 12:38 ¶
You might want to do the usual maintenance tasks: cleanup unneeded files, defrag, remove programs you don't use, remove unwanted startup programs, remove plugins, extensions and toolbars you don't want. I can also recommend bleachbit (free), which recovered several hundred MB of space for me due to cached flash objects.
Also how much RAM do you have? Modern browsers use up RAM like nobody's business due to rich web pages.
wakkawalla on 19/08/2012 - 12:12 ¶drop either spybot or avast. you dont need both.
Since your still hanging with XP, use a defragger.
And switch to firefox, its less harsh on older systems i believe.
- realfamilyman on 18/08/2012 - 13:13 ¶
P4 3.4GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro SP3 32-bit, and 1TB WD HDD that is mostly empty.
I removed a HP "SimpleSave" external HDD last night. So it's actually running not too bad at the moment. Nothing else gets plugged in until I need it except keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, and modem. I CTRL-ALT-DEL and shut most startup programs down as soon as the computer boots. And removed all plugins and extensions months ago, as they were the worst offenders. No toolbars at all. Even the printer is powered off until I need it.
I used to have a home network I rarely used. So I turned "sharing" (I think it was called) off. Because I read online the computer keeps seeking for new shares on the network, which slows it down.
Does defrag actually do anything? The reason I ask, I used to run it all the time back in P1/Win95-98 days, but it never seemed to improve anything. Then when XP came out, I read in a computer mag defrag wasn't needed with XP for some reason that I can't recall now. Try it and see I guess.
- greenpossum on 18/08/2012 - 13:39 ¶
Yes it does, if files are too fragmented it takes longer to read them off disk. AV also slows file access but is a necessary evil. Also why do you talk about a modem? Are you still on dialup? You could also be saturating your Internet connection browsing lots of things at the same time. Bittorrent can saturate the upstream channel and make it slower for other requests (normal browsing) to get through.
- realfamilyman on 18/08/2012 - 16:25 ¶
It's an ADSL2 modem. I just listed everything as I looked at it, so I didn't miss anything. Have dl & installed bleachbit. Will run defrag in a minute.
But even when the computer is doing nothing (like just now when I sat down to check if bleachbit was complete), there's a couple of seconds delay while the computer "wakes up". Like if you move the mouse, or click in a browser window to type in a field, etc. there's a pause.
The way I used to solve this slowdown problem was to fdisk, reformat, then reinstall windows. Haven't needed to do that the last few years though, since using XP because unlike Win95/98, it's stable.
- realfamilyman on 18/08/2012 - 16:29 ¶
Oh - and bittorrent is terrible for my system. I haven't used it for a few months. But if it runs for a while, even if I then close it, the computer remains slow until I reboot. So the "start automatically with Windows" option was turned off quick-smart.
- greenpossum on 18/08/2012 - 16:38 ¶
It's not normal for the lag on a mouse to be that bad. You should probably ask in some PC forums for advice on how to check your system's performance. Hopefully you don't have some malware hogging the system.
It's the best consumer grade CPU on the market for video editing purposes, making it well above average…
You could stick a gtx 560 in it to give it some graphics power if you have any video applications that can take advantage of CUDA but like gmatht said, other than a video card the only thing you would add is storage.
Even so, it would probably still be better to just upgrade the old CUDA applications to support Quick Sync, which I understand outperforms CUDA by a factor between 2x and 5x for video encoding. Actually, for a video encoding machine you'd want to be a bit careful installing a discrete GPU since that usually prevents use of Quick Sync, forcing you to fallback to the much slower CUDA. See e.g. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-260...
- +2 votes
This is a third gen Core i7 with Quick Sync. You may want to buy an Discrete GPU for gaming or an SSD to improve application load time etc, but this is already the best consumer oriented device on the market for video re-encoding.
The one upgrade you may want for specifically for video encoding would be a massive RAID array to store all your movies on, but even then that would be more for storage than speed. I'd chew up 1TB quite quickly when editing full-HD movies.
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Great specs, Free Wireless Adapter, and the shipping prices are extremely good! Well done (Y)