Hi, I've got the go ahead from the wife to get a new pc. I have a budget of around £750. (under if poss) I will be using it for gaming. Does anyone know what the Scan 3xs Sytems are like, would you reccomend them? or will i get a better deal building one myself. All advice welcomed. thanks. _Ned.
You'd get better by building your own. What do you need, everything including keyboard, monitor and such?
Better off building one yourself, usually cheaper and you get the added satisfaction of playing lego. But the Scan 3XS systems aren't terrible. Just I think you have more options building one. A friend bought one and he's happy with it. But wishes he'd built one after being jealous of me building them xD If you're shopping around, please avoid ocuk. As Blogins said, if you would build one, state what you might use it for or general specs/misc items you might want and people can spec you up a good PC.
Bought one for a customer the other week the £340 one. It was great I was impressed with the build quality ie all cables neat and tidy etc. The thing which cracked me up was the bubble wrap inside the machine! +1 though for the 3XS systems I would buy one again. I would have built one myself but I am waiting for the new office to be decorated so dont have any space at the moment for a proper set up. If you do not want to build one yourself these are the next best option. Catherine
Thanks for the replies; Okay, I want a gaming machine. I've been looking around and getting really confused, there is soo much choice... Mother board - been looking at these - MSI P67A-GD53 (B3) they seem to be reviewed really well. CPU - I've been told that the I5 is better than the I7 Hard drive - again, been told solid state is the one to get, does it really make that much difference? or could I add one at a later date? GPU - anything is better than what i have at teh moment, any ideas. Memory - soo much choice, 4gb or 8gb?? sound - onboard will do for now, but i need the option to add a decent card later. Case - wont be on display, so I'm not bothered. PSU - how power will I need, I cant work this one out. Please help, guide me in the right direction, I need to keep the cost to £750inc VAT. Thanks Ned
Yeah the notice was massive lol! Should have taken a picture of it tbh as it made me chuckle. I can imagine someone turning it on it would tear itself to bits on the bubble wrap lol!!!
I would say that if you're not confident in building a PC then I wouldn't necc try on your own. There's probably a local BITter who could pop round to help.
take this with a pinch of salt. ocuk quite often stock stuff that other online sellers dont, they quite often have prices that undercut other online sellers, and for the most part 9 times out of 10 their customer services is alright. I have bought off them many many times over the years and have never had a bad experience. Have even had to RMA stuff through them and its been fine. They might not be my preferred retailer, but they are definitely not as bad as some people (who probably have never actually dealt with their customer services teams or tried to RMA anything through them) try to make them appear.
The i5 is not "better" than the i7 - the i7 is technically superior, just maybe overkill for what you want. for gaming you would notice very little difference getting the i7 over the i5 as games generally dont use more than 4 cores, and thats if they use more than 1 (older games dont). Psu is dependant on the rest of the system to spec this last after you have thought about what gpu you want.
OK how about this: Case Fractal Design Arc Mini Corsair CX 600W 80+ PSU CPU Intel Core i5 2500K Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 for a little OC action. Memory 8gb Corsair DDR3 1600Mhz (System Max 16gb) Storage 500GB Hard Drive (at present anything else is just to expensive) Optical drive 22X DVD+-RW Motherboard ASUS SKT-1155 P8P67 -M Rev 3 Intel P67 Chipset Graphics Nvidia GTX 560 Ti 1gb OS Windows 7 Premium 64bit OEM. Pick a site of your choice, ebuyer, scan etc... All in I reckon £750
