Alright folks, I'm looking to buy a half decent pc mainly used for gaming, I've got a budget of around £500 but could go a little higher if it was the right system. Any help would be great.
Is £500 just for the components or for the case, screen, keyboard, mouse etc too? Do you want to build it yourself?
Sorry bashed that out in a hurry. Just components and a case, got monitor ect. This one is for somone else so would rather not build it but could.
You can get an Dell Inspiron 530 for £564.99 (E6550, 2Gb, 8600GT, 500Gb HD, DVD+-RW). Pretty much the same specification at Mesh (meshcomputers.com) costs £600. I specced up the following system at Overclockers.co.uk (a terrible store, but good for a general idea of price), and built the same specification computer costs about the same: Case: Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU - £70.49 RAM: Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT12864AA667) - £50.51 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £88.11 DVD Writer: NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £18.79 Graphics Card: Leadtek GeForce 8600 GT Extreme 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £82.24 Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM - £65.79 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.33GHz (1333FSB) - Retail - £111 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) - £64.61 Total: £552 You can't beat the price of Dell, but you can build a system with better quality parts for the same money.
Here's a PC pre-built from Novatech - http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?PC-2005 This is what's inside the Novatech machine. Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 4MB Cache Dual Core 64 BitProcessor 2048MB 800MHz DDR2 Ram 500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive nVidia 8600GT 512MB PCI-E Graphics 18x Dual Layer +R/-R/RW DVD burner I've just recently brought a lot of components from them but I've never tried one of their pre-built machines. I was going to buy a machine from Dell (XPS 710) but decided to build it myself in the end. I've not worked it out exactly but I saved about £260 and got better quality components in some cases.
i've shopped from Novatech a few times, so just a bit of warning: Novatech don't use very good motherboard, so that the cost can be kept down. (this may go for all pre-built machines though) oasked's specs are really good, except im not sure whether the power supply is powerful enough for headrooms
Ya get what I went for that's in my sig and your talking £500, we'll slightly less, and pick a case and psu
Thanks for all the help guys, i'm new to here so it nice to get advice straight away. Like i say this is for somone else so recon i'll go for one for the pre built ones. Altho looking at components makes me want to build a new set up for my self as mine is about 6 years old now. Looks like i'd better get saving!
I'v tried to get this price from dell but when i spec it up on there site the total price comes to £621.62 and that only has a 160G HD Do you have a link to the one you saw?
Ah, well no matter, I've spoke to my mate needing the system and we have decided to go for the one from mesh: http://www.meshcomputers.com/Defaul...SG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=221595&APPS=234442 Worked out at £510.88 inc VAT when you remove the monitor and extended warranty and other bumf Looks a decent system and will do my mate for specs and budget. Again cheers for the help, looks like this forum will be decent
