Fujitsu Minitower PC Base / XP Home / 512 MB - £200 inc VAT

buglawton · 12 July 2006 at 9:53AM

A computer services co we have used for a year or so have emailed me this Fujitsu-Siemens PC Tower offer. I'm buying the £225 one. No web page, just a Word Doc with pics etc. which I can send you if you pm me. The £100 inc VAT Acer flat screen is not bad either (my son has the identical 17" one - pretty good display maybe not graphic designer standard though).
I asked if these are quiet PCs (home office use you see) they said yes & the fan switches off when not needed.

** All Prices INCLUDE VAT but not P&P (or collect in Berks) **

£199 Fujitsu Scaleo J AMD Minitower
AMD Sempron 3000+ CPU, 1.8Ghz
512MB DDR RAM, 80GB PATA IDE HDD
DVDRW with double layer support
56Kbit Modem / 10/100Mbit LAN
Integrated graphics, Keyboard & Mouse
Microsoft XP Home

£225 Fujitsu Scaleo J Intel Celeron Minitower
Celeron D346 CPU 3.06 GHz 533FSB
512MB DDR RAM, 200GB PATA IDE HDD
DVDRW with double layer support
56Kbit Modem / 10/100Mbit LAN
Integrated graphics, Multi Media Keyboard & Optical Mouse
Microsoft XP Home

£299 Fujitsu Scaleo P Intel P4 517 Minitower
Pentium 4 CPU 2.93 MHz 533FSB
512MB DDR RAM, 200GB PATA IDE HDD
DVD & DVDRW with double layer support
56Kbit Modem / 10/100Mbit LAN
nVidia 6200SE TC 64M/256M Graphics,
Card Reader Multi Media Keyboard &
Optical Mouse
Microsoft XP Home
Microsoft Works

Acer TFT Flat Screen Monitors
AL1716 17” TFT - £100
AL1914s 19” TFT - £120

Flat screen prices apply when purchased with a PC

0870 060 2205 ask for Alison, mention recommended by Nigel at Chantesse
as they may give me a discount

on the one I ordered if I send them some customers. The co is Adelante in Maidenhead Berkshire.

MORPH3US · 12 July 2006 at 10:57AM

Anyone able to tell me if the £299 one is any good?!?

Would like to be able to play a few games here and there so I imagine the RAM might need another 512meg but what about the rest?!

Cheers

M

GDB2222 · 12 July 2006 at 12:36PM

MORPH3US wrote:

Anyone able to tell me if the £299 one is any good?!?

Would like to be able to play a few games here and there so I imagine the RAM might need another 512meg but what about the rest?!

Cheers

M

Well, the graphics card is pants. It's a 6200, which is pretty basic, but worst of all it's a Turbocache. What a wonderful name for something awful! What it means is that the card shares your mainboard memory, but it does so over the PCI-e bus, which is not designed for that sort of traffic, thus slowing everything down. You'll need a new graphics card to play games, really.

D@rkle · 12 July 2006 at 12:41PM

Plus there's no garauntee that that isn't an integrated graphics card, and the board might not have an expansion slot, fujitsu are kind of known for that.

MORPH3US · 12 July 2006 at 12:48PM

Ok, cheers for the advice guys!

Will continue to wait for another Dell misprice!

M

buglawton · 12 July 2006 at 1:29PM

I think these are really office/media PCs. The high end one (Scaleo P) should have a PCI Express expansion slot in it per a spec I saw on another site but you would have to check. Meanwhile my son is playing "Guild Wars" quite happily on his old AMD/1GHz/512MB pc with a Radeon graphics card plugged into the AGP slot.

TheoP_2 · 13 July 2006 at 2:35PM

Has anyone bought one of these yet? £199~299 appears better than Dell.

The specs of the Nvidia 6200SE graphics card say it is a PCIe card so there must be a slot and can't be integrated.

Turbocache doesn't mean the card has no memory. It has "64Mb of dedicated High Speed Video RAM and ALSO uses up to an additional 256MB of the main memory"... if required. Sooo a lot of the expense is RAM, and the majority is only used when playing intensive games, so if you want a fast card, but don't want to pay loads more for a card that you do seldom use.. yada yada.

If I was spending £300 on a new PC would I expect better than that..hmm?

Is there a link to it on the internet or Fujitsu?

TheoP_2 · 13 July 2006 at 3:47PM

Found one of them here ...
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Scaleo_J_300W_BAT:UK-P5XMS4-001/version-1.asp

hobo28 · 13 July 2006 at 4:06PM

I'm currently using a 6200 in my PC and can play games like World of Warcraft, Sims 2 etc. I think this card is fine for the majority of people.

How anyone can justify £300 on a GFX card just to have the detail turned to max baffles me!?!?! Gimme a passive cooled cheapo card like the 6200 and the difference in cash anyday.

buglawton · 13 July 2006 at 4:17PM

TheoP wrote:

Found one of them here ...
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Scaleo_J_300W_BAT:UK-P5XMS4-001/version-1.asp

Yes I saw that one in Laptopsdirect when I was checking if this really was a bargain before posting the offer - their price for the 80GB hard drive one is £212 + VAT so can anyone beat £200 inc VAT?

little_boomey · 13 July 2006 at 4:50PM

£249 @ dabs but with 160GB hard disk

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=43T8&CategorySelectedId=11101#Paging&NavigationKey=11101&ExposedRefinement=11001

Any idea how much Adelante will charge for delivery?

Fujitsu Minitower PC Base / XP Home / 512 MB - £200 inc VAT

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