Cube Hydra ST12 Gaming PC - £800?

[xanderroan]

Hi,

Unwanted Christmas gift that I won't use. It's been started up a couple of times, but I won't use it further. It rates itself as 5.9 for everything on the windows experience scale other than processor which is 5.6 or 5.7 (5.9 is the highest right now i think).

I need to double check the specification, but I re-call it's as below. Generally speaking it's not far off the fastest you can get at the moment. I think it cost £1200 new in December, so I'm giving quite a big discount. I see on the Cube website they already replaced it with the Hydra ST13 - the only real spec difference is the mother board (which i don't think is any better) and the change to quad core (which - yes, will give it a wee bit more processing power).

Ideally if someone wanted it they could pick it up in N. London


Alex

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Asus p5n-e sli motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8650 (I need to check that)
8192MB Corsair DDR II 667 Memory
1500GB SATA II Seagate Data Storage
NEC 7170 Multi Format DVD/CD ReWriter
nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCI Express Graphics Card – FASTEST CARD ON PLANET!
Creative XFi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard
Sony Floppy Disk Drive
DVD/CD ROM Drive
10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

[DamanC]

nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCI Express Graphics Card – FASTEST CARD ON PLANET!


Incorrect.

[Epic]

are you sure you have 8gb of ram and 1.5TB space?

[Epic]

also core 2 duo is not the fastest. the extreme cost about £500 more than that chip n would piss all over it lol

[xanderroan]

DamanC - sorry, I copied and pasted from cube! It means they are misselling. Here is this years equivelant of the ST12 http://www.cube247.co.uk/?customise=28

And yes - the RAM and Hard Drive size are correct.

[xanderroan]

Yeah - As I said, it's not the fastest you can get. But it's not that far behind at the moment. I think for the price it's a pretty good level of power.

[Guru]

If its 8gb of RAM that must mean that Vista is 64 bit not 32 bit. Just to let the buyer know :)

Does seem like a good deal though

[DamanC]

DamanC - sorry, I copied and pasted from cube! It means they are misselling. Here is this years equivelant of the ST12 http://www.cube247.co.uk/?customise=28

And yes - the RAM and Hard Drive size are correct.

Its ok, im just being picky. Its the fastest card to buy out of the box. :)

There are other cards on the plannet that are in development or clocked faster.

Its a nasty description from cube and I expected it was from them.

[Pete]

A quick estimation and I reckon it'd cost us £900-£1000 to build that up at trade prices, that's a good price for this PC IMHO.

[konio-nt]

Very good price, good luck with sale of this monster :)

[xanderroan]

Thanks for the comments people :)

I'm not so much of a computer buff as you can tell. But I thought it was a good price hence put it here before on to ebay.

I actually use a Macbook Pro myself as I'm not keen on working with Microsoft - especially Vista :D

Oh - I also have an updgrade version of Windows XP (unused) which I can throw in (although you need i think 95,98 already activated to use it). Although not sure if windows XP might be a problem with the RAM - sounds like Guru and a few others know more than me about it the whole vista/64 bit thing than I do

Funny thing is I work as an IT Management Consultant - just confirms that us consultants really don't have a clue haha

[DamanC]

You would need a 64bit version of XP if you were to want to use it on that rig. You almost cirtainly would have a copy of the 32bit version upgrade. Not that the buyer should want it, as vista is very good imo.

Someone buy it, it would cost me that kind of money to build it trade so whoever gets it is getting a bargain.

[Daston]

aye my rig cost around another £400 notes and to be fair isnt much better than that.

[Guru]

Yep any 32bit OS is limited to 4gb of memory. Some of this is taken up by graphics and bits so most only see 3-3.5gb. Get a 64bit OS and you'll never see the limit :)