Decent desktop PC for >£650

spakkker

You clearly have no need for an £800 pc and it is not possible to "futureproof" a pc- you can spend a lot of money to make it cope for a bit longer, but in 3 years time it will be 3 year old tech.
A basic dual core would easily see you through uni.... say £300 and the £500 you save will get a far better pc 2 or 3 years down the line than anything £8-900 can buy now.
You haven't answered an earlier reply asking what's wrong with what you've got now?

rdpro

fazza82 wrote: »

I really like the fact I can trust a company with warranty after spending this amount

Seriously, avoid Currys and PC World then - a customer of mine was charged £399 to extend his Dell warranty through Currys for 2 years.. The same warranty direct from Dell was about £120..

I've heard good things about Novatech too, they have a shop a few miles from me - must pop in some time..

spakkker wrote: »

You clearly have no need for an £800 pc and it is not possible to "futureproof" a pc- you can spend a lot of money to make it cope for a bit longer, but in 3 years time it will be 3 year old tech.
A basic dual core would easily see you through uni.... say £300 and the £500 you save will get a far better pc 2 or 3 years down the line than anything £8-900 can buy now.
You haven't answered an earlier reply asking what's wrong with what you've got now?

This is the way I go - maintain a decent pc, upgrade it with stuff released 6 months ago (half the price now, but about 90% as powerful as latest 'n' greatest) - the only thing I 'invest' heavily in is a good pc case and monitor.

fazza82

Okay cool, so this ebuyer package is a good deal.
Sorry for being simple, but what exactly makes it such a good computer and worth the money???

What does the processor, graphics card, RAM do for me???
Is it worth it, is this a good buy!

The girlfriend is insisting I tell her why it's better than the other pcs we've looked at.

Lil306

fazza82 wrote: »

Okay cool, so this ebuyer package is a good deal.
Sorry for being simple, but what exactly makes it such a good computer and worth the money???

What does the processor, graphics card, RAM do for me???
Is it worth it, is this a good buy!

The girlfriend is insisting I tell her why it's better than the other pcs we've looked at.

Cos you can play the latest games and watch the latest DVD's yo! :cool:

No offence but sounds like your g.f is just being tight fisted

Whilst in some respect, it is impossible to guarantee your PC being future proof. The correct choice in parts mean you will never have to upgrade it for a long time.

Anyways, any old PC can do Uni work. If you want to do the really cheap method, buy a base unit bundle. Aldi sell some nice ones for about £400 which is plenty power for what you need. I also believe you can get some money back with Quidco

Lil306

rdpro wrote: »

Seriously, avoid Currys and PC World then - a customer of mine was charged £399 to extend his Dell warranty through Currys for 2 years.. The same warranty direct from Dell was about £120..

I've heard good things about Novatech too, they have a shop a few miles from me - must pop in some time..



This is the way I go - maintain a decent pc, upgrade it with stuff released 6 months ago (half the price now, but about 90% as powerful as latest 'n' greatest) - the only thing I 'invest' heavily in is a good pc case and monitor.

I never go with high end monitors, I doubt I could personally tell the diff lol. Unless it was full on HD and great res, but otherwise I only use them for simple things like movies and games. I do like using bundles though, quickest way on upgrading

As for Novatech, they're a great company. What makes them great is their customer service. You get through to them on the phones extremely quick, there is plenty of support available for technical problems. They're RMA returns service is next day collection and the way they do it all is hassle free. Most people I think go to Novatech for their customer service alone. I was buying a computer monitor, could have bought it £30 cheaper from ebuyer but tbh I love the service from Novatech from previous purchases. So I chose to spend the money where I know it's put to good use.

Personally not fond of ebuyer, their delivery prices are OK, but I selected a next day delivery option and didn't get it until 2-3 days later. So that put me off when I spent another £10-15 for a premium service and didn't receive it, it was the complete opposite with Novatech. The motherboard bundle I ordered when opened had a faulty part (broken off cap from M/B), I called N.Tech immediately, they just gave me an RMA straight away. Courier picked it up and 1-2 days later I had a new kit to which I'm typing on this PC now.

Ebuyer does have some nice prices on some selections however, so I still use it from time to time.

closed

fazza82 wrote: »

Internet browsing and word processing is all it would be used for, maybe watching films, tv programmes.

One last try, doesn't the one you have do all of the above?

fazza82

I don't have one at the minute.
I am currently sharing a computer with 4 other people in my house, and it is S.L.O.W!!!
I tend to use my iPhone 4 for internet browsing and such lol.

I think I'm gonna go with a Dell (I get 17% discount for working at McDonalds), the last question I have is this...
Is this a decent spec for £1,024 (£850 w/discount)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 860 (2.80GHz, 8MB)
Memory: 8192MB (4x2GB) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory
Graphics Card: Single 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 240
Hard Drive: 1TB Serial ATA (7200RPM) Hard Drive
Monitor: Dell ST2310 23" Full HD Widescreen Monitor - UK/Irish

ALSO!! Is it worth changing the Graphics Card for a '1GB ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 Graphics Card'... the cost of which is £70 (£58 w/discount)

gonzo127

yes thats a pretty good price for that system,

and if you want the possibility of gaming you should upgrade the gpu http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-radeon-hd-5570-gaming,2697-7.html shows the 'levels' of graphics performance and the 5770 gives higher performance than the gts250 (so the card above the one included)

ddoris

Not really a top end system but better than phone browsing . If you aren't paying cash are you confident that your burger flipping job is secure enough to meet repayments? Have you checked out Brighthouse yet?
I'm really curious what course you are gonna do at uni?

lightisfading

£900 seems like an insane amount of money to pay out for a computer used for word processing and internet. The only reason to buy high spec computers is to run things that require it, such as games, graphics programmes etc. You can get a decent computer for about £250 for the base unit, plus monitor cost etc.

Brighthouse?! With their interest rates?!