Help finding a cheap replacement PC.

chunter

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/AMI-PC-SUPPLIERS

Always had a lot of time for this crowd.

NiftyDigits

Jonpop wrote: »

Band wagon jump on!!! as i mentioned Ebuyer. Pick on the newbie!! £149 for the zoom storm £69.99 for windows 7 premium your up and running

Calm down.... £220 is somewhat over the OP's budget.

Do you imagine that you were the first on this forum to suggest that Zoostorm machine? :money:

Jonpop

NO just this thread. So the poster asks for advice on spending £130 with intention to buy a again in 6 months time. I thought why not save yourself from wasting £130 on someone cast off for the sake of a few quid more they could have themself a good machine brand-new with warranty. Thought this was a money saving FORUM the fact I do not waste money on someone else's old tat. Thanks for the welcome. Personally I thought it was good sound advice. Best calm down... Quote father jack on craggy island "so so so so sorry' look up banter from the high horse your on. It's Christmas were is your festive sipirit

NiftyDigits

paddytehpyro wrote: »

So, my PC died and I'm going to have to buy something to replace it for 6 months while I save for something decent. The PC that died was fairly old already (A Dell Inspiron 531) so I was hoping to get something similar to it for a lot less.

Is looking for something with a dual core CPU and a 128mb video card for no more than £130 completely unreasonable? I don't really mind what OS it has as long as it has one.

Any help/opinions are appreciated, thanks.

What failed on the DELL? You didn't update your earlier thread.

mr_fishbulb

NiftyDigits wrote: »

A lot of sales blurb, but what is the reality? XEON may sound impressive, but the CPU is from eight years ago. Expect a CPU Benchmark of an ATOM processor of today.

It will still have a lot of ommph. At my old work, I managed to blag myself a double processor, dual core, Xeon machine with hyper threading (much like these ones). The machine was 5 years old, but it still ripped the pants off any of the quad-core non-xeon machines we were getting in new. 8 threads of xeon goodness!

NiftyDigits

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

It will still have a lot of ommph. At my old work, I managed to blag myself a double processor, dual core, Xeon machine with hyper threading (much like these ones). The machine was 5 years old, but it still ripped the pants off any of the quad-core non-xeon machines we were getting in new. 8 threads of xeon goodness!

Five years old is not eight years old. It won't have that much 'ommph'. Newer Xeon CPUs are a lot better.

64-bit Intel® Xeon® Processor 3.40 GHz, 1M Cache, 800 MHz FSB CPU Benchmark 537

Not sure as to why it has such a low rating, but there it is.

GunJack

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Five years old is not eight years old. It won't have that much 'ommph'. Newer Xeon CPUs are a lot better.

64-bit Intel® Xeon® Processor 3.40 GHz, 1M Cache, 800 MHz FSB CPU Benchmark 537

Not sure as to why it has such a low rating, but there it is.

must admit I found those benchmark scores rather low, considering my Sempron comes in below, but my T2250 Core Duo comes in at 800-ish !!! I wonder what in the pc was limiting the possible scores in those tests, as they are based on real machines out there in the wild.....

NiftyDigits

GunJack wrote: »

must admit I found those benchmark scores rather low, considering my Sempron comes in below, but my T2250 Core Duo comes in at 800-ish !!! I wonder what in the pc was limiting the possible scores in those tests, as they are based on real machines out there in the wild.....

It's a processor from 2004.

prowla

I am using a Dell Optiplex 755 - they can be had very cheaply on ebay and at computer fairs, but processors and memory can vary and the default hard disk is 80 GB.