Hi everyone want to buy a new system to play battlefield 3 but looks like I will have to buy it from Overclockers as I have no money and they offer a 0% finance deals for 12 months My question is do you think i should buy one of their pre-built systems which I think they have overclocked or shall I just buy the components myself and build it myself? Also what system would you best reccommend I want to spend about £1000 including monitor Cheers Ross
This is a toughy. Scan do a Finance option. Which spreads the cost out over a period of time. I'd check there. Oh avoid Overclockers if you want next to no customer sevice. http://www.scan.co.uk/finance/index.aspx But seriously I'd wait and put some money away. Getting into any kind of debt just to play a video game is something that you should seriously think about before agreeing to anything. I know what it's like to want to play the next best thing. Be it on console or pc. I have only just moved the PC gaming. And it was after careful thinking and research before i spent the amount of money I have on this computer.
don't worry, I can afford it, I dont have the money to buy it up front but I have lots of money invested in a few things so technically it won't be a debt because if I cashed everything in I would be all green I will check out Scan finance but I don't think it will be 0% like Overclockers. Its not just to play battlefield 3, i need a new gaming pc
I will say one thing, overclockers are extremly poor on both Customer services and paying people what they owe them. I had a contact at the company from which they bought their parts and they were forever chasing up the owner for money that he owed. Personally if thats the sort of company that he runs I would not shop there, would you?
I don't think it's that bad. I've spent more than that on a system that is primarily used for folding, and will be building a much more expensive system next year, again primarily for folding. Now if only my disability benefits would give me a tax benefit for all that
Wait until the new year and buy then. Lots of new stuff will come out for not much more than current standard spec. I wouldn't go with finance either, they usually use V12 (clode finance) who, from experience, really aren't very nice.
Definitely build yourself. Building a PC is relatively easy and only takes an afternoon, why spend money you don't have to. Whether to finance or not, that's your own personal issue. Personally I'd say if you can get 0% financing and know you can pay it off in 12 months then why not. As for what to buy, look at Bit's Battlefield 3 Performance Review. This will give you a good gauge of what kind of performance you can expect with different GPUs. You'll probably want something like an i5 2500k, appropriate 1155 motherboard, 8GB of decent speed RAM, probably a GTX570 and decent branded 600W+ PSU. Slap it all in something like a Fractal R3 and you're golden. Shop around whatever retailer you choose in whatever brands you choose, just be aware that hard drive prices have been driven up due to the floods in Thailand and may be problematic. For your monitor look at GoodByte's monitor guide to get some good information, your monitor budget will likely be a result of what's left over but it's still good to look at your options.
Have you bought from OcUK and recieved zero service or is it just what you have heard from the shoddy performances of some staff from years gone? Slander is harsh for both parties involved. As for finance.. both are external. OcUK uses hitachi finance for example.
The poor service is from what I have read on these here forums, where people have stated issues with several different things with OCuk.
Well as it happens I agree the service at OcUK of years gone was poor and I was one member of these forums stung. Fortunately these members of staff have since left and the service has picked up monumentally as you would expect. A few threads on here have been full of issues which hasve since been resolved however there are issues with other customers regarding scan and other places. I once had an issue with a GPU at scan, it was returned and then sent back to me fault not found follwed by a charge. I then returned it again and the fault was found. Did I have my charge refunded? No! And I was far from amused. It doesnt matter where you shop you will find some people with issues. With the hundreds of thousands of orders shipped annually from the major players in the market (ebuyer, OcUK, Scan, Dabs etc) a few reports here and there of poor service is bound to happen. Wpuld you go out of your way to write a positive review? Probably not as it is expected that your order goes smoothly. Its only when it doesnt that the stampede to the internets follows. Ordering from OcUK, Scan, Ebuyer etc etc is all going to end up with the same result 99.9% of the time - a happy customer. OcUK has such bad press because of what has been highlighted and because there awareness over the internets in forums is massively higher than that of scan etc all because of the size of their ridiculously large forums that dwarfs pretty much any other PC enthusiast forum out there. Just check how many are online at any given time, its in the multiple thousands.
Just for future reference, with higher value goods where outright refusing to pay an 'engineer charge' would do you absolutely no good. What you should do is make it clear that you make the payment 'under protest' so in effect you register a dispute with the charge. Then once the fault was detected with the second RMA you would have good grounds to reclaim the initial engineer charge. If they refuse to accept responsibility then our old friend Section 75 can bring pressure to bear on the retailer.
Used Overclockers quite a bit and i did get part of my current system from them as an overclocked bundle on finance which i have just payed off, the motherboard came slightly damaged in transit (not Overclockers fault) and they sent a courrier to pick it up pretty quick, took a while to get it back as they had to test the whole bundle for damage and it was at that time last year when we had all that bad weather and deliveries were delayed massively, anyway don'r be put off by bad rumours of years ago, and u will get more for ur money if u build ur own from components.
HI Ross, for your budget you should be able to squeeze in an i5 and a GTX 560 and a 22" screen. Get the system pre -built and extend the warranty so it lasts at least the length of your finance term. As there no point paying £30 a month on a broken PC or parts set. This looks like a decent set-up: http://www.easypc-uk.com/gamers-systems/204-eco-gaming-water-cooled-36ghz-core-i5.html But just use them as a "can you beat this deal" with one of the sites that offer finance.
Personally if I was in your position I would just buy the components and build it yourself. Oh and avoid Overclockers
On a similar point, it seems more people have complaints about delivery companies than the actual retailers.
A grand for a top end PC including monitor isn't bad if your getting top end parts in the PC and a pretty good monitor. You could no doubt buy the components, OS and monitor yourself and buid for a few hundred cheaper than a grand but a lot of people won't have the confidence or time to do that. Go for scan rather than overclockers. A far superior firm to deal with.
Just had a quick look at www.pcspecialist.co.uk and built this COOLERMASTER HAF 912 PLUS MID TOWER GAMING CASE Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX 8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB) 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready 1TB SATA-II 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7,200rpm) CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72) total of £884 including W7 home premium They also do 12 month no interest. Here is a link to the finance page. https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/finance-options/
Agreed i paid over a grand but i did need everything and went with good components instead of cheap ones Sent from Bittech Android app
