I need to know what to look for (new PC)

Sparhawke

Without knowing more of your needs I would be a bit hesitant to say what i think, but I managed to self build my own gaming computer with the help of a friends son (who maintains police servers and is contracted to Siemens) and that cost me £650+100 time and labour.

You say you do emails and forums and iplayer, you do not need the power I have but you can easily get away with getting a good set-up for £500

I assume you do not need a new monitor, keyboard, mouse speakers as you can simply transfer the lot?

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/190819/Zoostorm-i5-2320-Tower-PC-Intel-Core-i5-2320-8GB-500GB-DVDplus-RW-Windows-7-Professional-1-Year-Warranty

I would get something like this, while not state of the art it does come with 8gb of memory which is more than enough (most pc's cannot make more use of any more) and a DVD RW drive, and while the hard drive is a little on the small side for todays gaming it is ample for everyday use and with VAT it comes in at £479

Shove in a decent graphics card in time and you should get some fairly good performance out of the latest games, if you know someone local you could get them to build the same kind of computer for cheaper, but you have to bear in mind that they know what they're doing

I will state what I looked for in my PC and eventually got later when I am at home and can look through the specs

spannerzone

macman wrote: »

Upgrade to W7, bung in another 1.5GB of RAM, job done.

or even just get the ram, reload vista and updates and it'd probably last another couple years.

I do seem to recall reading that this model might suffer from motherboard issues but might be wrong.

Cisco001

Sparhawke wrote: »

Without knowing more of your needs I would be a bit hesitant to say what i think, but I managed to self build my own gaming computer with the help of a friends son (who maintains police servers and is contracted to Siemens) and that cost me £650+100 time and labour.

You say you do emails and forums and iplayer, you do not need the power I have but you can easily get away with getting a good set-up for £500

I assume you do not need a new monitor, keyboard, mouse speakers as you can simply transfer the lot?

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/190819/Zoostorm-i5-2320-Tower-PC-Intel-Core-i5-2320-8GB-500GB-DVDplus-RW-Windows-7-Professional-1-Year-Warranty

I would get something like this, while not state of the art it does come with 8gb of memory which is more than enough (most pc's cannot make more use of any more) and a DVD RW drive, and while the hard drive is a little on the small side for todays gaming it is ample for everyday use and with VAT it comes in at £479

Shove in a decent graphics card in time and you should get some fairly good performance out of the latest games, if you know someone local you could get them to build the same kind of computer for cheaper, but you have to bear in mind that they know what they're doing

I will state what I looked for in my PC and eventually got later when I am at home and can look through the specs

Too expensive.
The second machine I linked with 3rd gen i5 3470, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD, GT610 and Win 7 or 8. And it is still only £450...