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Looking into getting a PC and to be honest I know jack all about computers these days. So I'd be greatful of any advice you can give me on specs to be looking for. I want a good PC that won't need to be upgraded for a while, doesn't have to be top of the range though.
Oh and also where's a good place to look for one? I'm the sort of idiot who buys the first one he sets eyes on when he walks into PC world so I really could do with some advice.
Oh and please don't tell me I'd be best off making it myself. I know it'd probably work out a lot cheaper but I have neither the time or the L337 skills for something like that.
Cheers for the help...if you helped.
£1000? Do you know anyone who is good at PC-building? Ask them to build you a machine and save some cash. A few of us here could do it, but you'd really need someone local, for support etc.
Custom-built PCs > all this Dell/Mesh crap.
Still, I'm not gonna rush into buying the 'puter. I'll wait till after E3 just to make sure Microsoft aren't gonna do anything amazing with Xbox 2, by then I should have tired of Chaos Theory so I'll sell my Xbox to help with the costs.
Out of intrest what do you guys think of the Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro 256 mb graphics card?
> Out of intrest what do you guys think of the Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro
> 256 mb graphics card?
I want it, that's for sure :D
If you can get the VIVO version, it's possible to get it to perform close to an X800 XT.
Seriously, you could build it yourself. There is nothing to it. The only tricky part is making sure you don't have deathmonkey hands when applying some thermal pas**te to your CPU. The res**t is like someone has already pointed out, like expensive lego.
Brand names are jus**t sh*t to be hones**t. If you wander into PC World and have a look at their bench mark £1500 PC's, they have £40-50 graphics cards in them with really crap generic RAM, a crap case, no possibility of future upgrades due to no expansion slots etc. Not only is it cheaper but you can cus**tomise it completely and get better s**tuff for your dosh. Tis a bit of a myth why more people don't do it as it really isn't that difficult. Ins**talling Windows is pish and only involves a couple of DOS commands and a couple of mouse clicks and the res**t is done automatically.
Providing you don't play Star Wars music whils**t trying to fit your daddy long schlong into the CD drive I am sure you will s**tay perfectly normal, completely un-geekified ;)
Piece of pish.
The best value for money gamers video card out there right now is the ATI X800XL. It costs the same but is a lot faster. However, I don't think any of them are available for motherboards that use AGP.
Since I imagine you want to play games and want best bang for buck, as opposed to the best for some types of video encoding, go for an AMD Athlon 64.
Put it this way, for your grand you shouldn't accept anything less than:
Athlon 64 3500
1GB of RAM
ATI X800XL
200GB hard drive
as that lot, along with fancy motherboard was around £700.