Desktop Pc for son

applepad

My son wants a desktop Pc to play Minecraft and teckit, will also need it for school work. Will be in his bedroom so needs to be able to conect to home wireless network.

Any recommendations around the £400 mark

Thanks

Tiexen

Something like this?

Zoostorm 7877-0402 Home Media Desktop PC (Intel Pentium G850 2.9GHz Processor, 500GB HDD, 4GB DDR3, Nvidia GeForce 1GB GT620 Graphics Card, DVD-RW, Windows 8


Price: £327.60

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoostorm-7877-0402-Desktop-Processor-Graphics/dp/B009PNCT2A/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

grumpycrab

This Dell is £274
(code D006644)
http://www.dmxdimension.com/recommend/inspiron-660/D006644
after codes
B04QH1GXTWL508
D2LLXDM6?XQ11T

I don't think the graphic card is significant for Minecraft and teckit. (not that I know what the latter is).

NB. No monitor included.

TonyBroke

Coincidentally, I received an i5 Inspiron 660 from Dell on Thursday which I intend to return to them just as soon as I can as I am not at all happy with it.

First off, the onboard graphics are low-powered, unsuitable for anything but the very lightest game playing. Plus the only outputs are HDMI and VGA, not DVI which gives the best image quality with PC monitors.

For this reason, I decided to transfer the (fairly recent) graphics card from my old machine to the new Dell. Unfortunately, it didn't work. A little research discovered that not all graphics cards are compatible with Dell's new UEFI BIOS. I wouldn't even mind this so much if I could find out which graphic cards ARE compatible, but I just can't seem to dig up the info, and more to the point I don't want to spend any more money

Tiexen

TonyBroke wrote: »

Plus the only outputs are HDMI and VGA, not DVI which gives the best image quality with PC monitors.

Digital is Digital - no difference between HDMI & DVI except HDMI carries audio as well

applepad

grumpycrab wrote: »

This Dell is £274
(code D006644)
http://www.dmxdimension.com/recommend/inspiron-660/D006644
after codes
B04QH1GXTWL508
D2LLXDM6?XQ11T

I don't think the graphic card is significant for Minecraft and teckit. (not that I know what the latter is).

NB. No monitor included.

Rung Dell and they say it will do the job.

However I can not get the codes to work, any ideas?

Thanks

Cisco001

For £400, I suggest go for this.

Seismo Intel G2020


Customizations:

CPU: NEW! Intel Pentium G2020 Included

Operating System: Windows 8 (64-bit) Included

Motherboard: NEW! Asus P8B75-M LX £12.20

RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333mhz (1x8GB) £14.50

Hard Drive: 500GB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s Included

Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA Included

Graphics card: NEW! NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1GB £85.29

Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio Included

Case: NEW! Fractal Design Core 1000 £13.70

PSU: NEW! 450W Corsair VS £16.50

Warranty: 3 Year SureCare Warranty Included

Product Subtotal: £391.19

grumpycrab

applepad wrote: »

Rung Dell and they say it will do the job.

However I can not get the codes to work, any ideas?

Thanks

XM4HP4B1RG9QCH or
D2LLXDM6?XQ11T
for 11% or 12%
then
B04QH1GXTWL508
for free delivery

EDIT:looks like the base price has gone up?
£345.43 (+ over £10 for mandatory keyboard and mouse)
-£20.01 (offer)
-£39.05 (12% coupon)
= £299.50
(-6% Quidco)
Annoying.

Or this similar Medion (not a great brand in my opinion) is £288 (was £260 annoyingly aswell).
www.amazon.co.uk/Medion-PC8585-Desktop-Integrated-Graphics/dp/B00AU2NO8I/

EDIT2:
Or similar spec dell (smaller hard disk) £20 cheaper.
http://www.dmxdimension.com/recommend/inspiron-660/D006643

jaydeeuk1

Wait for this to come back in stock (does every so often)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AU2NO7Y
Medion
Intel Core i5 3330 3.0GHz, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, WLAN, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8

Was £299!!!

Or i3 version (no where near as good value, but still decent, was cheaper though)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AU2NO8I/

£288

Edit - just realised its same as posted above

grumpycrab

This may be too late for the OP.
Dell i3 for £256
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/dell-inspiron-660-desktop-i3-sandybridge-500gb-4gb-258-70-with-quidco-245-77-1508528

(use code ?S9K6MNN94304V for -12%)