Desktop (tower)

Carrot007

Neil_Jones wrote: »

As a general guide if its flatscreen it'll be fine, but to be sure if you look at the back of the computer and follow the cable from the monitor to the computer it will go into one of three holes - a blue one (15 pins), a white one (usually two blocks of nine pins and a horizontal prong across the longer length of the block) or a HDMI port, same as the TV.

No mention of displayport? You know, the current standard port?


And on monitors for a long time. Not on my main one, but that is older and I only keep it because it is larger than my other two I use (it is next on the replacement list though, but waiting for 4k to come down in price).

Carrot007

melbury wrote: »

It is the one that came with my current computer back in 2012 - says HP2211x on the front.

Thanks, will check out the colour thing.

Appears to only be VGA.

melbury

Just wondered; does anyone have an opinion on Acer or Lenovo desktop towers? Any good?

jonnygee2

I have had an HP pavilion since 2012 and it has been great, no problems at all, so of course I am looking primarily at HP's.

However, I notice there are other makes cropping up in my search that are a bit cheaper, namely Lenovo and Acer.

Unfortunately, these days it is nearly impossible for an average consumer to tell how one PC will compare to another in terms of performance. I wouldn't necessarily, therefore, look at an ASUS that looks similar but is £100 less and assume it's just a better deal. It's probably not.

If you are happy with HP stick with them. I think they make good PCs and for your budget, one of the bigger brands is probably good bet.

tonyh66

If you were going to spend £450 how about a refurb plus a better monitor?

bob_a_builder

Thank you, I will have a look around. Are there any particular sellers that you would recommend?

Not really since it was quite some time ago I got mine

But here is an Ebay example just to show pricing - select i5, 16GB , 240 SSD + Win 10 for £220

LINK

Just picked this one more or less at random as an example but does have 100% feedback

At the end of the day refurb'er is only really going to be doing a test it works + a fresh install of Win 10

Mainly you are putting your faith in the quality of the underlying Dell hardware.
And these are really nicely engineered units, they have been the standard desktop PC for many a company up and down the land

EveryWhere

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No point in buying a refurb.
Since, by the sound of it, the OP has a perfectly functioning PC. So they can just refurb that for a few £.
But since the OP is on my ignore list, there must be a good reason for that. So I will leave this thread to it's conclusion.

melbury

I wonder why EveryWhere has put me on his ignore list.

The only think I can think of is that he got cross with me because I am a complete technophobe and too scared to attempt upgrading my own computer. I wish techie people would understand that some of us simply do not comprehend how computers work and are far too nervous to undertake this type of thing.

Thus replacement is the only option my mind can cope with:(

mksysb

Best thing you can do is buy the components and assemble it yourself. It's not difficult. Then it'll be exactly to your specification and with good parts.

melbury

bob_a_builder wrote: »

Not really since it was quite some time ago I got mine

But here is an Ebay example just to show pricing - select i5, 16GB , 240 SSD + Win 10 for £220

LINK

Just picked this one more or less at random as an example but does have 100% feedback

At the end of the day refurb'er is only really going to be doing a test it works + a fresh install of Win 10

Mainly you are putting your faith in the quality of the underlying Dell hardware.
And these are really nicely engineered units, they have been the standard desktop PC for many a company up and down the land

Thank you for the information.

Would you say that a Dell Optiplex 7010 is a good option for a refurb? Is this quite an old Dell model?