Looking For Decent Desktop PC

atticgirl2003

Does anyone know of any good desktops on the market at the moment.
I was thinking about a Dell, do they have a special time for a sale.
Just for home use.

Thank You.

nintendosensei

By home use, i'll guess browsing, music casual gaming. A pentium D or an AMD X2 series processor would be good. Maybe one of the dell E520's you can customise to fit your needs. I'd upgrade the processor to the one £17 more. Cut down the cover to 1 year collect and return, and if it suits your tastes you can get a 19 inch over a 17 inch with the money you've saved from cutting the cover. I customised this, and it's £507. You could upgrade the graphics or tone down the RAM, but i'd get that.

PROCESSOR Intel® Pentium® D 915 Dual Core Processor (2.80GHz, 800MHz, 2x2MB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 (Incl Operating System Re-installation CD) - English edit
VISTA UPGRADE MCE to Vista Premium Upgrade on: https://www.dellvistaupgrade.productorder.com before 03/31/07 edit
SUPPORT SERVICES Collect & Return, 1 Year Service only edit
MONITOR Dell™ 19" Value Flat Panel (E197FP) - UK/Irish edit
MEMORY 1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz [2x512] Memory edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD +/- RW Drive edit
GRAPHICS CARD Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000

atticgirl2003

Thank you so much for the info.
I will look into it.

Thank You.

BillScarab

What's your budget?

Do you need a complete system including monitor, mouse, keyboard or do you just need a base unit to use with existing accessories?

What do you want to do with it? Internet, Email, Games, Word Processing, Video editing? Home use covers a lot of things these days. If you can be more specific people will be better abel to advise you.

What NintendoSensei has recommended is a decent enough machine except for the Graphics, if you want to be ableto play games you will require better graphics.

atticgirl2003

BillScarab wrote:

What's your budget?

Do you need a complete system including monitor, mouse, keyboard or do you just need a base unit to use with existing accessories?

What do you want to do with it? Internet, Email, Games, Word Processing, Video editing? Home use covers a lot of things these days. If you can be more specific people will be better abel to advise you.

What NintendoSensei has recommended is a decent enough machine except for the Graphics, if you want to be ableto play games you will require better graphics.

My budget would be around £300-£450 give or take.
I am the only person who will use the computer for things such as, Internet, Email, Digital camera and download music onto CD's.
All just a learning curve for me. At present I use a Dell Latitude laptop which a friend gifted to me when he bought a new one. It runs very very slow.
I would like to buy a computer that would last me for a long time if that is possible.
Can't get the link to the above Dell site.

Thank You.

atticgirl2003

Sorry I forgot to say I only need Base & Monitor