Need to buy a PC £400 max

bergy2

Ahm no - not 5 years old

The guy just wants current egs of sites

PC World have good deals if you monitor their refurbs imo
Novatech do a nice range too and are really highly recommended - we have a load of them at work

DCFC79

FrugalFriend wrote: »

The guy in my local recycle centre's happy for anyone to take whatever they want. It's less stuff for them to deal with anyway. Plus then the item's actually being reused, rather than just scrapped.

The reason I suggested this was I was bringing in an old monitor for recycling and I noticed the quality of the computers people had dumped. For example, decent looking Dell Optiplexs, lots of beige base units (looked fine), and perfectly usable 17" CRT monitors. Most of this stuff would work fine with a little TLC, accessories and a fresh operating system.

Get the latest Ubuntu operating system CD for free: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
New Tesco Value mouse, keyboard and speakers £11.59: http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.1999036$4294965929/Nr.99.aspx?Ns=P_SORT_Price&btnResultSort.x=5&btnResultSort.y=12

If you're trying this, choose a PC with an ethernet (network) connection rather than a modem, most internal modems only work with Windows. You'll need that if you're getting broadband anyway. Also the above accessories are PS2, rather then USB, so just make sure the computer base has PS2 connectors on the back. That's easy because they're usually colour coded green and purple, and most older desktop PCs will have them.

but the OP wants football manager to play on the computer and i believe FM doesnt work on ubuntu, your idea has been good mind

GunJack

would be good to know what exactly's wrong with the OP's current pc ??

can you list the spec and what symptoms you're getting to lead you to believe it's dying ???

chunter

How's about this one?

Dell Vostro 220s @ £355 inc VAT & Delivery

Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 32-bit - English
Intel® Core™2 Duo E7300 processor (2.66GHz, 1066MHz, 3MB cache)
Microsoft® Works 9.0 - English
19in E1909W WIDESCREEN Black UK/Irish (1440 x 900) TCO99 DVI-D
2048MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X4500
16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Dell™ Entry Quietkey USB Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Optical Mouse
Services & Software
1Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day Onsite - No Upgrade Selected
Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio HD
No Speakers
No Floppy Drive
No Modem

Stobbzy

Thanks for the ideas so far guys I have been looking into them!

I went into Comet today & saw this Acer PC at £399.99 which looks really good to me http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/522007/ACER-ASX3200-8450/tab/specification

Am I right? Is it worth buying? As I'm looking to buy it possibly tomorrow

DCFC79

The dells cheaper, id get a dell over an acer in my opinion but ive not used a dell so what do i know lol

Stobbzy

DCFC79 wrote: »

The dells cheaper, id get a dell over an acer in my opinion but ive not used a dell so what do i know lol

The Dell link doesn't work anymore, it looks like that offer has expired & I need a new PC asap so thats another reason I'm looking at the Acer rather than waiting a week for delivery

will-he-payitoff

You never did tell us whats the spec of your old pc and whats wrong with it. I am using a 7 yr old Hp that after a XP reinstall and more ram is now better than new all for £30

Sput2001

will-he-payitoff wrote: »

You never did tell us whats the spec of your old pc and whats wrong with it. I am using a 7 yr old Hp that after a XP reinstall and more ram is now better than new all for £30

I was just thinking the same thing. A five year old PC shouldn't be ready for the glue factory just yet. A clean Windows re-install and a RAM upgrade should be enough to give you a few more years of happy use.

diable

Dell Inspiron 530's at the moment are hald decent value http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspndt_530?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&ref=dthp&s=dhs phone them up and try to haggle for some more memory or upgrades.