New Computer - Mesh ?

venomx

mksysb wrote: »

If you have already added ram and a GPU to you old machine, it wouldn't be a large step up to build your own machine. It'll then be the exact spec you want with quality parts. Plenty of videos on your tube showing you exactly how to do it.

Well on Novatech you can choose exactly what you want in the PC, therefore saving me the hassle of having to fit it myself.


I can fit heatsinks(fans) , GPU and RAM

So just basic stuff.


I have narrowed it down to these two...


https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechlifenti348.html
https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechpronti347.html

Cisco001

Since your existing PC is old, you should get a new one.

Most of the PC nowadays don't have DVD drive.
If you have a sata one with your existing PC, you could probably re-use it.
If not, you can easily get a portable DVD writer for £10 from ebay.

For your new PC, I would recommend you get a motherboard with 4 RAM slots.
2 x 4GB RAM
Also, 120GB SSD seems small. SSD price come down quite a bit, grab a 240GB as min.

almillar

You've already got a DVD drive on your old computer, presumably. If it's SATA and not IDE (do check!) you can transfer it to your new full tower, if it doesn't come with one. Don't fixate on it coming with a DVD drive. You could also buy a USB DVD drive for <£20.

EveryWhere

venomx wrote: »

Its a 2007 Dell Inspiron ( which i have alreay upgraded the Ram and the GPU )
3GB Ram
160GB HDD
Ati 5450
AMD Athlon 64 processor.

I'd like

• brand new,
• PSU minimum of 400w ,
• not slimline ( Want a full sized tower )
• HDMi Out

And preferably with a DVD drive just incase I need it in future





I know, but on my sisters laptop I couldn't get it to recognise the USB stick on the boot manager screen when pressing F12 and had to use a DVD to install linux on it.
We couldn't however, get into the BIOS which might have something to do with it ( we forgot the bios password lol )

One of your earlier choices is Slimline

I wouldn't choose any of them. PCIe Gen2 X2 Hardly much point in emphasising" new" and then buying Motherboard with a lesser capability than a second hand off the shelf PC.

that

venomx wrote: »

..on my sisters laptop I couldn't get it to recognise the USB stick on the boot manager screen when pressing F12

Sometimes it is the usb, sometimes the image on the usb and sometimes the bios.

If I burn an image with one windows A certain windows prog (think rufus???) the the linux stuff never worked for me, but using unetbootin (think it was that one?) did. I no longer make bootable usb sticks using these methods, but drag an iso to easy2boot folder instead.

Looking back over a few years, Christmas is a peculiar time. The prices and deals are often not deals literally that time just before Christmas. Generally you have to buy to keep little Billy happy - a bit like shark feeding time. Found the good deals are around the very start of december, when the savvy shopper are not pressurised, but businesses get one shot to make that sale.

also Christmas time is the time of year when some companies put really shoddy underspec, but overpriced good on the market, if people knew better they would not want to buy these. Stuff with underpowerd CPUs, poor screens, EMMc drives that are advertised as SSD

I agree with EveryWhere, that those choices from novatech are not great deals, nor a great spec

letsbehonest

venomx wrote: »

Well on Novatech you can choose exactly what you want in the PC, therefore saving me the hassle of having to fit it myself.


I can fit heatsinks(fans) , GPU and RAM

So just basic stuff.


I have narrowed it down to these two...


https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechlifenti348.html
https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechpronti347.html

Good choice, I like Novatech

EveryWhere

letsbehonest wrote: »

Good choice, I like Novatech

Why are you going around bumping old threads?

Neil_Jones

letsbehonest wrote: »

Good choice, I like Novatech

Nice that you like Novatech but was it worth bumping a three week old thread to tell us this?