What's the best pc (tower only) i can get for around £200 quid

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How confident at putting one together yourself would you be?

farhad1965

moneysaverraver wrote: »

i'm not too bothered about the graphics card, ideally i'd like vista premium and a dual core processor, but i'm just looking for the best possible option for the money as i bugged my whole crappy ei system up more trying to fix it.

I bought my daughter an ACER pc for around £220 from www.ebuyer.com. It has vista and a dual core processor.

Backbiter

superjaggybunnet wrote: »

check out www.europc.co.uk

http://www.europc.co.uk/pages/ProductPage.aspx?PID=108117

£199 excl VAT Nice one!

I bought a refurb Packard Bell from them several years ago. Never had a minute's bother with it.
I also bought two brand new Dells - one laptop, one desktop. Very disappointed with both - very sluggish and prone to crashing from day one.

moneysaverraver

be_alright wrote: »

How confident at putting one together yourself would you be?

yeah could probz do it, if not i'll get my uncle, although i did !!!! it up trying to fix everything on my rubbish ei system, ended up bugging up the cmos so it wouldnt power on

moneysaverraver

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/191415/dell-vostro-200-desktop-base-with-v this is my favourite option so far with, a dvd rw and processor upgrade to 2.2ghz for 207.50 but i'm not sure if i will have the money for the 11th

motorguy

itm2 wrote: »

Does anyone have any pointers to non-Dell deals? Dell are all very well until you need to upgrade or replace any parts - they're notorious for using proprietary parts that cost the earth to replace. I remember being quoted £70 for a replacement Dell power supply about 10 years ago, at a time when a standard ATX power supply could be had for £15-20.

Wow a ten year old prejudice.

Back in this decade, thats not so much the case. I would have thought any upgrade route would be along the lines of RAM, HDD, processor, graphics card - all non proprietary. For parts, pretty much the same story. MoBo's would be proprietary, but not insurmountable.