Is this a good price for this computer?

whitesofmyeyes

First of all I thought this was the best place to post it ,sorry if I was wrong.
The deal I negotiated only stays open until the end of the day.

Is this a good deal?
If not where can I get a better deal?

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8500 Dual Core Processor(3.16GHz,6MB Cache,1333MHz)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit - English
Digital / Analogue TV Tuner PCI Card
MESH Midi-Tower ATX Case + 550W PSU - 190mm(W) x 420mm(H) x 480mm(D)
ASUS P5K SE Mainboard - Intel P35 - Intel Core™ 2 Duo/ Quad/ Extreme - ATX
4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (2x 2GB)
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
Samsung 22x Dual Layer DVD Writer Super Format +R/-R/RW/RAM
256MB nVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS - DVI, HDTV, TV-Out
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound
Free Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + Limited Microsoft Office Trial
Free Cyberlink Video Editing Suite - 7 titles (oem)
12x USB 2.0 Ports (6 ports at back panel, 6 ports at mid-board) - ASUS P5K SE
PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2 - ASUS P5K SE
Multi-format Memory Card Reader (matx)
1 Year Hardware Warranty - Back to Base (UK Mainland only)

£480 Delivered (no cashback)

shadowdragon

In my Opinion it seems pretty good,
Good amount of Ram
Large HD Capacity
Nice Graphics card, which will work well with the ASUS board.
Plenty of USB ports (cant have too many) and very accessable.
Good board (Ive always found ASUS to be the most reliable.

One thing are you going to hard wire it to your router for internet access? I ask because I cant see any wireless technology. But you can get a half decent wirless dongle for 20 or 30 quid.

Also has the case got enough cooling fans? you really want an intake at the front cooling accross the MB and extraction at the rear of the case and one on the side wouldnt hurt either.

Bamber19

shadowdragon wrote: »

Nice Graphics card

That depends entirely on what the computer is to be used for. I personally don't think it's that good a deal.

shadowdragon

Bamber19 wrote: »

That depends entirely on what the computer is to be used for. I personally don't think it's that good a deal.

http://reviews.cnet.com/graphics-cards/xfx-geforce-8400gs-graphics/4505-8902_7-32757930.html?tag=mncol;lst

Its a good alround graphics card, I make the assumption the OP isnt a 3d graphics designer working on a new Halo 4 engine

http://reviews.cnet.com/motherboards/asus-p5k-se-motherboard/4505-3049_7-32492048.html?tag=mncol;lst

The board has upgradeability (8gig ram ect) Nice board.

Now I dont mean to be rude but I see throw away comments like this all the time, instead of saying you "disagree" and "its not worth it" show something better for that price and state reasons. Otherwise I just see it as trolling.

shadowdragon

Well I have a self build I did nearly 3 years ago (for nearly a £1000)

Its got an Asus motherboard
Its got a Nvidia Graphics Card
Its got a SATA 250gig HardDrive.
I just recently upgraded the Memory from 1gig to 2 gig (it supports 4gig).

The machine is used everyday for at least 12 hours, and is still going strong and hasnt given me a minutes trouble.

If you look after it, it will last. Keep the insides as clean as you can (dust is the main killer for your components). Make sure you have plenty of space around the Case for air flow.

It looks like it will be ok for cooling, it also like the rest of the components has upgradeability (plenty of space for cooling fans).

shadowdragon

If you want a comparison

look here at the machine with the same chip, it has a better Graphic card (which you said wasnt important as you dont do gaming). Has half the RAM of yours. and doesnt have the extra TV card/Card reader, and no operating system!!

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=pc&c=home&r=NVO

£630. (£700 with Vista home)

exup

shadowdragon wrote: »

If you want a comparison

look here at the machine with the same chip, it has a better Graphic card (which you said wasnt important as you dont do gaming). Has half the RAM of yours. and doesnt have the extra TV card/Card reader, and no operating system!!

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=pc&c=home&r=NVO

£630. (£700 with Vista home)

yup agree with shadow it seems a decent PC -
If you have the time to trawl through lists then you can compare part for part to get a good idea
Personally I tend to buy all my hardware for building PCs from a local shop
cclonline I also usually budget for an OEM operating system disk -
Dont froget though that those prices at CCL are for a self build - with the PC already built then that will cost a bit too .

jonnywatson

Looks ok to me....as long as you dont expect to do high level stuff....

You have to remember though that even though it has 8GB of RAM you will be running Vista 64 bit OS. Vista works best with 2GB of RAM....64 bit OS means you double or more your memory addressing...soo 8GB is problerly about right for Vista 64...i know some people that recommands running 16GB of RAM for 64bit OS's.

Graphics card looks good and the Asus boards are some of the best really...very good units.

aliEnRIK

Bamber19 wrote: »

That depends entirely on what the computer is to be used for. I personally don't think it's that good a deal.

Well by ALL means Bamber..........
Show us a better one

shadowdragon

exup wrote: »

yup agree with shadow it seems a decent PC -
If you have the time to trawl through lists then you can compare part for part to get a good idea
Personally I tend to buy all my hardware for building PCs from a local shop
cclonline I also usually budget for an OEM operating system disk -
Dont froget though that those prices at CCL are for a self build - with the PC already built then that will cost a bit too .

I used to buy mine from there when I lived in good old Bradford.