New PC - help and advice required

HappyJanner

Hi people.

I'm on the hunt for a new desktop PC.

Have a budget of £500 and am looking for a spec which covers the whole family using it.

For example:
- wife would like to be able to download music
- ds would like it to be reasonable for games
- web browsing

Do not need a printer / scanner with it as we already have one.

All help would be greatly appreciated, as I have been helped by many of you before and found your advice to be sound:beer:

BillScarab

Anything would do for what you want except for gaming. The gaming requirement bumps the spec and the price up. Do you needa monitor with it or do you have one you can use?

If you don't need a monitor the second one int hsi list would do the job

http://www.dmxdimension.com/dell-uk/xps-420-deal-comparison/

If you need a monitor how about the one reduced to £529 in this list?

http://www.dmxdimension.com/blogcategory/dell_uk_inspiron_530.html

Whatever you get make sure it has a proper dedicated graphics card, not onboard graphics.

echelon101

£500 will satisfy requirement 1) and 3) but 2) if ds likes to play games like Crysis.

Are you looking to build or buy?

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No one really plays Crysis anyway, it's too boring

HappyJanner

echelon101 wrote: »

£500 will satisfy requirement 1) and 3) but 2) if ds likes to play games like Crysis.

Are you looking to build or buy?

Looking to buy as I am not that technically savvy; simply put, couldn't tell my ars* from my elbow!!

DS is only 8 1/2, so don't need too much in the way of graphics.

echelon101

Ah that means you can probably get anything

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspndt_530?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

If you can get the £529, it's a pretty good deal in my opinion (as a demi-geek)

If anyone is wondering

Q6600
3gb ram
500gb hd
20" TFT Screen (they are pretty good)
HD3450
Vista Home Premium

real1314

How does this compare?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-0126.aspx

seems to be the same as that but without the video card, monitor and 1gb less memory

Sput2001

real1314 wrote: »

How does this compare?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-0126.aspx

seems to be the same as that but without the video card, monitor and 1gb less memory

It's good, especially for that price. You can always add extra RAM (easy and inexpensive) and bung in a new graphics card, if you need them, at a later date.

HappyJanner

Thanks for advice so far.

Is there any major difference between AMD and Intel processors as I've seen a couple of systems with AMD in?

Sput2001

HappyJanner wrote: »

Thanks for advice so far.

Is there any major difference between AMD and Intel processors as I've seen a couple of systems with AMD in?

To a seriously anoraky techie, yes, and they'll duke it out for ages over which one's better.

To the average user, they're much of a muchness.

thedealhunters

I know dell right now has some great deals, or you can even take a look at CompUSA, they usually have quite the selection at good prices.