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- osc1882, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38You know. Some times building it your self isn't fully about saving money. It's about researching all the parts and selecting the parts that are just right for you. It's about spending a week thinking really hard about where you would rather put your money ( Ram, Video Card, CPU... so on ). It's about cutting yourself on the case while your trying to remove something. It's about the swore back from leaning over into the case. It's about sweating bullets as you boot it up for the first time. And then it's about the pride of making something yourself that kicks so much ass.
It's the same feeling people get when they pimp out their cars... only cooler. - Arkavus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14And in 6 months there will be something better...
- aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It might not be as pretty in the end, but couldn't you build a comparable system for a lot less?
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The only PCs you should buy are computers by manufactures that get heavy discounts, around the time of a sale. For example, I got a 21" widescreen monitor and 2GB of ram for free by using Dell during Chinese New Year. That is the ONLY time you should buy from a retailer, in all other cases it is cheaper to build your own. I could definately build a comparable system for MUCH less then this, or a better system for the same price (well maybe not, they pretty much maxed everything).
Keep in mind it costs 5000 POUNDS not 5000 USDOLLARS. £5000 is nearly $10,000. - Sp4nk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yeah, your wallet's ass. You could build this thing yourself for half the price and without the stupid looking case.
- xyphur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think it needs more cowbell.
- Sp4nk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Obviously it's the flames on the side that make it so ultimate.
- nsharp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@osc1882
article aint so great, but your comment is awesome - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What they want you to believe is that you need these 5K hotrods to run the latest games. Sweet spot systems will run the latest games fine if you have your system optimized for gaming.
Xbox 360 is what, 3.2 GHz? Half a gig of ram for 400 bucks?
You'd be a fool to pay 5k for a computer for gaming these days. - osc1882, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Man I don't know. I mean, yes, there will. But this beast is going to kick some ass for a long time to come.
- kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sorry you mean the name Vadim. my bad.
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Shame the side of the case is so ugly.
The internals give me the horn, however. - Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@osc-
Exactly. There's an "emotional connection" with a PC you build yourself. If someone builds it for you...it's just financial. :)
On top of all this, I think someone could have built this PC on their own for cheaper....quite a bit cheaper. - cvrefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think it needs more fans.
- Cowtastic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, now the 8800 makes my 7900gt look pathetic, and directx 10 is tempting. If only it were possible to upgrade hardware like you can software to make it better without having to buy a vid card for 600 bucks, then have it be obsolete less than a year later.
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When I was young (a teenager) and didn't have enough money, I liked building my own PC. But now, being busy with my work, and just liking things to work, I'd rather buy a prebuilt PC. It cost about the same, the big stores don't really make money from the hardware anyway.
- kiduk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That pc is for people who can't fathom building their own, but still want a large e-dick(electronic dick). It has bad performance in comparison to the Alienware but if you are a serious game building yourself is a better way to go.
- kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's http://www.vadim.co.uk (a United Kingdom company mate).
- nsjoker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ah yes, but when said system does not work accordingly the accountability is all yours :/
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That thing costs more than my car, and at that price it better butter my toast and do laundry.
- Carlsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My god, that is one ugly computer.
I'd rather build my own. And make something that doesn't look like it came from a raging teenagers imagination. This the PC for people who like the fast and furious movies. - TeqnoHaxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The cuts on the case look a little bit cheap, and why did they include the dreaded floppy disk drive? How about the different brand optical drives that just do not match.
Sorry, but when you're talking upwards of $9,000 US I would expect a little more. - willwork4ammo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@xyphur: NICE!
I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like you. Except after my pants are on, I make gold records! - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Huh?
http://www.vadim.com/vadim/ - Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This article wins 100+ diggs for having my name in it, seriously I have never seen my own name on the interwebs enless I specifically searched for it.
I so am gonna get it now It would rock to have a computer having same name as you. - alternateheaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny that in the one area that anybody reading this article cares about its the loser in the benchmarks. How many people drop that kind of money for a machine for running photoshop or encoding mp3s?
- myfanwy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's got a floppy drive?! ahahahaha
...still, droolworthy - Kwipper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am playing games on a 19" monitor at a max resolution of 1280x1024. My 7900 GT is more than enough for today's games, so I can wait until the DX10 games come out then swap out this card for one of the 8800 cards (which probably will be lower in price). I'm set.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1phibriphi, YOU SUCK!
- Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Floppy is useful for providing SATA drivers during Windows installation. They're also useful for what LV2X said, although most modern motherboards will take a BIOS upgrade through Windows fairly safely now. The "average" computer user doesn't need a floppy drive, but it never hurts to have one. I'm not sure why that's the thing everyone picks on with this computer. The whole computer sucks, and everyones laughing at it having an additional feature. Weird.
- Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Vadim Computers Company must be pretty new well probably not that new, since the last time I ever did a google search on my name was probably back in 03' or 04 :/
But still thats pretty cool that theres a company named that since its a not a common name even in slavic country's. And the fact its a computer company my one true love how awesome. I wonder if I can get one of those cases on ebay or something that logo is just sick. - Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Cowtastic
***** DirectX 10 it will only lead to more pain and worsened performance. Look at the page with gaming comparison, the alienware with inferior hardware and unoptimized xp pro outruns the beast with vista due to the OS and drivers. - meishme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We should just stop buying PC's for now and just wait for best and LAST one that will ever come out... :)
- Kprkt, on 02/08/2008, -0/+0cool
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http://bestknowndeal.info - foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2building your own pc is cheaper? really? what if you want a cheap pc? then, you have to buy windows (assuming your not a linux nerd). windows vista ultimate is $399 retail; $199 oem. that's a huge chunk of change you MUST spend when BUILDING a computer.
i bought a compaq with a ***** 17" monitor and usb color printer--which i gave to my bro--three years ago--a year before the intel core architecture--for ~$500--a pretty good deal back then for the latest amd k7 cpu, 512mb ddr400 sdram (single channel), a 200gb seagate barracuda hdd, and a dvd±rw. it had a couple open pci slots, so i could upgrade my sound card, and an agp 8x slot, so i could upgrade my video card as well. not a bad deal after i threw in a better psu and another stick of ram for ~$70. two years later--one year ago--i bought a backup mobo and the exact same hdd for $70--in case something goes on the blink. although, nothing has so far. it's been a pretty good buy and will continue to be after i turn it into a file server WITH RAID once i upgrade.
so, tell me if you could've built a pc like that three years ago WITH a copy of windows xp home. i tried to "window shop" for similar parts and an oem copy of windows xp home @ newegg, and i couldn't do it without sacrificing something. - TheDA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what? no blu-ray burner? . i thought there would have been one of those for that price
- AVigorVermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm with you meishme. Let's all do ourselves a favor and stop looking at the best and greatest, knowing that what you get will never be as good as that.
- IHOLDMYPOOPIN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would expect this computer to be rated 10s across the board for how much someone would have to pay for it. It's great to have a nice looking computer tower, but I would rather get a dremel out and go to work on it myself and avoid paying for the aesthetics of this computer.
- LV2X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 FAO: myfanwy + other floppy haters
If you read the article, you'll see it was specc'd by the customer, the guys at Vadim are probably aware about how obselete (and somewhat ghastly to some people's taste) the floppy may seem, however anyone worth their salt knows that floppy is the best way to update your bios
if you look closely it's also got an integrated 7in1 card reader, which is always handy and won't be going obselete any time soon.
*rolls eyes* - Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Before you digg me down for "shameless self promotion", realize three things: 1) I'm a writer, not running a gaming website. I write reviews. So I'm not selling anything and theres no membership to my site. 2) I have no ads, so again, I don't benefit from this and 3) I am no longer selling my computer. I'm keeping it. I just haven't updated that yet.
That said, I thought it'd be worth sharing my own computer. The stats are on the page, and like previous posters have said, it is REALLY fun and you definitely feel proud of the system. Mines voltmodded and overclocked, and the fact that I was able to do that, and maintain a watercooling system without a single failure yet, makes you feel great about the system.
http://jofaba.com/node/43 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Stupid people wasting time making their own ***** up computers. Who gives a ***** if the pc is custom built. Buy a goddamn pc and use it for something useful than to piss away the time and money on some ***** ego trip trash. Such ***** up world.
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