Any recommendations for Mesh Computers?

Harveycat_2

I'm after a new desktop PC.

Seriously looked at Dell, up to the point of having a set up in my shopping basket ready to pay but then hesitated.

I saw Mesh computers mentioned somewhere. Pound for pound you seem to get much more bang for your buck from them than Dell.

Anybody used Mesh can offer recommendation or comment on quality of their systems?

Thanks.

:beer:

biged670

I bought a pc from mesh about 3yrs ago and I had nothing but problems. Hard drive, motherboard, problem after problem. I would never use them again, stick with dell!

-TangleFoot-

biged670 wrote: »

I bought a pc from mesh about 3yrs ago and I had nothing but problems.

Conversely, I bought a system from them a few years ago and with the possible exception of a dodgy wireless device driver I've had no problems at all. Until it died a few weeks ago, that is.

What do you plan on doing with this new PC of yours?

Harveycat_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Conversely, I bought a system from them a few years ago and with the possible exception of a dodgy wireless device driver I've had no problems at all. Until it died a few weeks ago, that is.

What do you plan on doing with this new PC of yours?

The odd game.
Wordprocessing.
Some presentation (Powerpoint).
Web surfing.
Photo processing/storage.
Downloading/viewing film.


Main project I have in mind is we have loads of stuff on VHS tapes (home movies and some feature films) which I would like to transfer to DVD.

Current PC is an old Pentium 4 and will not run any current games, even ones which are not particularly graphics intensive.

I think I'd like a Quad core - I just can't make my mind up on which graphics card to go for.

Why, what do you suggest?

Any advice welcome!

-TangleFoot-

Video transcoding doesn't require anything particularly powerful, but having more CPU cores will generally get things done quicker and some software can offload a portion of the processing to the GPU too.

Examples:

• ATI Video Converter (freeware)
• Badaboom (£18.55)

So, what's your budget?

its_all_gravy

Hi we bought a pc from Mesh a couple of years ago paid for a 3 year waranty
had nothing but bad service and problems all the way
Personally i wouldnt touch one again with a sh*tty stick
cheers

Harveycat_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Video transcoding doesn't require anything particularly powerful, but having more CPU cores will generally get things done quicker and some software can offload a portion of the processing to the GPU too.


Examples:

• ATI Video Converter (freeware)
• Badaboom (£18.55)

So, what's your budget?

I was looking at around £800 Dell systems but I'm open to suggestions. I could be persuaded to spend more if necessary.

I'm hanging up my spurs as a motorcyclist after many years. I've decided to spend the proceeds from the sale of my bike on a new all singing and dancing PC and a new digital SLR camera.

The camera has been a relatively easy choice - graphics cards are proving rather more complicated!

Standalone will be ok for me, don't need a monitor, keyboard etc.

Something that puzzles me is I can't decide if two 512Mb (crossfire) cards work out better than say a single 1mb card. I guess two cards would invite twice the things that could go wrong?

I would like the ability for it to lend itself to being a 'games' machine. As I mentioned the odd game comes along that I'd like to play. I prefer playing video games on my PC rather than a dedicated console. I just downloaded an updated version of The Secret of Monkey Island from Steam but it will not play on this thing I have!

My current PC is only the second I have bought in many years. When I have bought a PC in the past I tend to buy the most powerful I can afford to try to make it future proof - if that makes sense?

-TangleFoot-

Gazfaz wrote: »

Something that puzzles me is I can't decide if two 512Mb (crossfire) cards work out better than say a single 1mb card. I guess two cards would invite twice the things that could go wrong?

Two cards are better than one, but not by much and only under certain conditions. Adding two cards to a system intended to play The Secret of Monkey Island on the odd occasion is absolutely pointless.

Now, what do you think of this?

Harveycat_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Two cards are better than one, but not by much and only under certain conditions. Adding two cards to a system intended to play The Secret of Monkey Island on the odd occasion is absolutely pointless.

Now, what do you think of this?

Impressive - I'll have a proper look in my lunch at work tonight!

Thanks for the link.