Home build p.c's - any views?

CAT-THE-FIFTH

Until Intel Core 2 Duo budget boxes come out the Athlon X2 will be the best processor in budget machines!

T4i

Just built the post #1 system, my honest opinion on it?

Fantastic! They didnt want a TFT afterall as they already have two 19" TFT's which they forgot to tell me about, I also added 2 pairs of creative 2.1 speakers and the subtotal came to £600.78

CCL didn't have the Asus mobo in sotck so after discussions with the technical dep. I went for the slightly more expensive Biostar (never used one before) but it does have the nForce chipset instead of the VIA.

For a £300 machine its brilliant, it won't run graphic games but then they don't want it to. I do like the temps of the Venice core, with the stock cooler installed I didn't see it go above 32 Degs during SP2 installation.

I'm well impressed, and hopefuly the buyer will be too

So glad I didnt go for the Dell system

T4i

CAT-THE-FIFTH wrote:

Until Intel Core 2 Duo budget boxes come out the Athlon X2 will be the best processor in budget machines!

lol, I wouldn't really call a £110 X2 a 'budget' CPU. A 3000+ @ £50 is a 'budget' CPU.

anley1

Dell is the only way to go IMHO.

The trick to buying a good spec machine is to keep watching their adverts in the paper (normally I find the prices on the website are far higher). You'll see that they go for about 4-6 weeks having so-so deals and then for 3 weeks have great ones.

In the last 6 months I've bought a few P4 machines, 1gb ram, 17 flat screen for under £350. a 19 inch monitor is nicer but the 17 is good as well.

Never had any problems with them (touch wood) and for the money I really don't think they can be beaten especially as 95% of people will be using them for internet, email, Word etc so if you spend double of even triple you won't see any difference, apart from maybe Word starts 0.5 second quicker

CAT-THE-FIFTH

T4i wrote:

lol, I wouldn't really call a £110 X2 a 'budget' CPU. A 3000+ @ £50 is a 'budget' CPU.

OK,then a 50 quid processor is a super budget one!:rotfl: