Recommended PC builders - are Mesh any good now ?

jblackmore

I'm looking to get a new desktop PC, as 10 year old one is not up to video editing for gopro camera I just got.

Looking around Mesh has best price for spec I'm after (AMD 3.5Ghz 8 core/2Gb Nvidia GT640/16GB RAM/120GB SSD/1TB HDD/Win 7 PRO 64bit), googling for reviews finds recent ones are goodish, older ones had problems, but I understand it changed ownership (untidily) in 2011, so hopefully OK now.

Mesh price is ~£800, compared with ~£1000 for Aria/chillblast for similar spec, so I'm tempted, also it has 01xx phone numbers for support (others all have 084/5 higher rate numbers which puts me off).

I was hoping to spend around £500 so have already stretched as much as I want to.

Anyone suggest any other PC builders I should check before hitting the button, or have any good or bad expereince with Mesh recently (in 2013) ?

George_Michael

I've used pcspecialist.co.uk for my last two computers and have never had a problem with them (although as with all companies, opinions and experiences vary greatly).

For the spec you've mentioned, they charge around £766 but this will change depending on what case you choose.

Case
PCS ALPHA TRION 7622B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-8320 Eight Core CPU (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A78L-M/USB3 (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 3Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 650 Ti - DVI, mHDMI, VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 2 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £766.00 including VAT and delivery.

closed

£300 laptop will do video editing, as will 10 year old machines, albeit slower.

Buy from one of the big boys, and you're unlikely to need support.

jblackmore

Thanks for replies, am currently using 3 year old £300 laptop as a stop gap, it is really slow though, outputting an edited 90 second gopro video takes about 20 minutes, an 18 second timelapse took about the same time to process, so its just too slow to be managable.

Am sure anything new with 8Gb+ memory would be a huge improvement, and I'm only editing video's for fun, so if I leave it to render for an hour once a week its not that big a deal!

Cisco001

jblackmore wrote: »

Thanks for replies, am currently using 3 year old £300 laptop as a stop gap, it is really slow though, outputting an edited 90 second gopro video takes about 20 minutes, an 18 second timelapse took about the same time to process, so its just too slow to be managable.

Am sure anything new with 8Gb+ memory would be a huge improvement, and I'm only editing video's for fun, so if I leave it to render for an hour once a week its not that big a deal!

If you only want spending £500, consider AMD APU.

http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Home+and+Office/Next+Day+Systems/GLADIATOR+AMD+A8-6600K+Richland+Quad-Core+Next+Day+Desktop+PC+?productId=55884

http://www.ebuyer.com/504520-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1082

anxietyattack

George_Michael wrote: »

I've used pcspecialist.co.uk for my last two computers and have never had a problem with them (although as with all companies, opinions and experiences vary greatly).

For the spec you've mentioned, they charge around £766 but this will change depending on what case you choose.

Case
PCS ALPHA TRION 7622B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-8320 Eight Core CPU (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A78L-M/USB3 (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 3Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 650 Ti - DVI, mHDMI, VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 2 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £766.00 including VAT and delivery.

I think it's a good combination for PC.

UncleZen

+1 for pcspecialist