Is this desktop a good deal?

Rookie

For £224.99 you will get:

· Stunning Sleek Black/Silver Tower case with FRONT LCD Display & 400Watt PSU!!

· Intel DUAL CORE Pentium D 6GHz (3Ghz x 2cores)* Processor with 64Bit Technology, 4MB Cache (2x2MB) (ADD £14.99 to UPGRADE to Intel DUAL CORE Pentium D 6.4GHZ )

· Fast 1GB DDR2 RAM 667MHz (ADD £25 to Upgrade to 2GB DDR2 RAM)

· 160GB SATA Hard Drive (ADD £14.99 to Upgrade to 250GB SATA Hard Drive)

· Fast 20x DVD±RW/RAM (Add £9.99 to UPGRADE to LIGHTSCRIBE DVD RW)

· Fantastic 5.1 AUDIO

· High Performance Integrated graphics (Add £25 for Nvidia 512Mb Turbocache 16x PCI-E Graphics card)

· Ready for Microsoft Vista (Not included, Add £65 for Vista Home Basic, Add £85 for Vista Home Premium (please note to gain the required performance a graphics card will need to be added for Vista) Add £75 for Microsoft XP home, Add £95 Fro XP PRO that will be professionally installed)

· Broadband Ready with LAN connection (please ask for quote if wireless is required)

I am thinking of upgrading with another 1GB Ram, 250GB Hard disc, Lightscribe, Nvidia graphics 512MB
Would appreciate helpful comments please>

Blacksheep1979

Wouldn't bother with lightscribe - need special disks, takes a while etc and you could build the PC for that sort of money. Besides I never trust people who describe a dual core 3ghz computer as 6ghz.

x_Wilco_x

Basic system with integrated graphics and sound, is OS not included in the price either?

motorguy

When you add the o/s it starts to sound expensive. I like the "Add £95 For XP PRO that will be professionally installed", is that a threat like "if you dont go for XP PRO we will have your o/s installed by a blind monkey" ?

Personally, there are a load of Dell deals around that would get you this spec with a monitor for not much more...

globalds

I've just bought this one and it has an operating system included
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=0&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=123119

Ramz_3

globalds wrote: »

I've just bought this one and it has an operating system included
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=0&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=123119

I have the same spec PC by Acer (L100) and for me its not too bad, except you may want to upgrade the RAM to 2gb. It may seem fast at first, but after a month after you've installed a few programs, games, and anti-spyware, it will seem alot slower. The good thing though is that 2GB of RAM from Crucial is only about £70 i think.

preecey

I wouldn't personally trust any seller who puts 'fast' or 'fantastic' in front of computer specifications. How patronising!