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£400 to £450, anyway.
Ready built, separate components, whatever, with a 17inch LCD screen.
Thank ye
Ready built, separate components, whatever, with a 17inch LCD screen.
Thank ye
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I only have a 80 gig hard drive and i'm pirating morning, noon and night but i have the sense to back up everything straight away.
Go for the top spec you can when you upgrade otherwise you'll just have to sepend more money evey year. Plus even if your not video editing 1 gig of ram is good to have for most program.
Go for the top spec you can when you upgrade otherwise you'll just have to sepend more money evey year. Plus even if your not video editing 1 gig of ram is good to have for most program.
Socket A now?!?! : O
No-one in their right mind would buy Socket A. It's not even a good SktA mobo either : /
No-one in their right mind would buy Socket A. It's not even a good SktA mobo either : /
And never mind "you don't need that great a graphics card", having one AT ALL might help.
I thought 939 was the future? That's for PCI-E, right?
Damarus wrote:
> It wont be fine for long. Never get stuff because it's cheap. All it
> will lead to is an upgrade sooner therefore not saving any money.
I differ onthat. If you where to buy a good pc @ £400 it would serve you many years. Yet, if you buy a cheaper system for £200 then in a couple of years get another one for the same price your not really lousing anything.
Saying that the spec I do graphic design, playgames and video ed' would make you guys cry out laughing.
My personal opinion to anyone buying a PC is to find a used base unit - o/b graphics, purely because it's low cost without a lot of the hassle
> It wont be fine for long. Never get stuff because it's cheap. All it
> will lead to is an upgrade sooner therefore not saving any money.
I differ onthat. If you where to buy a good pc @ £400 it would serve you many years. Yet, if you buy a cheaper system for £200 then in a couple of years get another one for the same price your not really lousing anything.
Saying that the spec I do graphic design, playgames and video ed' would make you guys cry out laughing.
My personal opinion to anyone buying a PC is to find a used base unit - o/b graphics, purely because it's low cost without a lot of the hassle
monkey_man wrote:
> I thought 939 was the future? That's for PCI-E, right?
You can get PCI-E on 754 as well, but yeah, stick with 939 for the higher end CPUs. He was suggesting SktA, which precedes both 754 and 939, so buying it is......stupid.
> I thought 939 was the future? That's for PCI-E, right?
You can get PCI-E on 754 as well, but yeah, stick with 939 for the higher end CPUs. He was suggesting SktA, which precedes both 754 and 939, so buying it is......stupid.
Marzman wrote:
> My personal opinion to anyone buying a PC is to find a used base unit
> - o/b graphics, purely because it's low cost without a lot of the
> hassle
But that's stupid for anyone who wants to do anything more than surf the internet/word process. A £400 PC won't last you that long either. When my graphics card came out in 2002 it cost about £350 and it started showing its age when I played Doom 3/BF2 on it, so I can't see an entire PC for £400 lasting 'many years'.
> My personal opinion to anyone buying a PC is to find a used base unit
> - o/b graphics, purely because it's low cost without a lot of the
> hassle
But that's stupid for anyone who wants to do anything more than surf the internet/word process. A £400 PC won't last you that long either. When my graphics card came out in 2002 it cost about £350 and it started showing its age when I played Doom 3/BF2 on it, so I can't see an entire PC for £400 lasting 'many years'.
thats why i upgrade in stages, normally get a pretty good graphics card, then about 3-4 months down the line i upgrade my cpu, motherboard and RAM.
It's going to cost me around £500 in total but i'll have a system that will last for around another 2 years.
It's going to cost me around £500 in total but i'll have a system that will last for around another 2 years.
Memorandum! wrote:
> Marzman wrote:
> My personal opinion to anyone buying a PC is to find a used base
> unit
> - o/b graphics, purely because it's low cost without a lot of the
> hassle
>
> But that's stupid for anyone who wants to do anything more than surf
> the internet/word process.
If you don't use the o/b graphics you can usually use graphic apps no probs
> Marzman wrote:
> My personal opinion to anyone buying a PC is to find a used base
> unit
> - o/b graphics, purely because it's low cost without a lot of the
> hassle
>
> But that's stupid for anyone who wants to do anything more than surf
> the internet/word process.
If you don't use the o/b graphics you can usually use graphic apps no probs
That doesn't even make sense.
MArzman, face it, your suggestion was poor. Buying cheap components at low spec is just a complete waste of money. You might as well just not buy a computer at all for all the good it will do you.
down, I suggest you check out Dell (I know I know), but they have some pretty decent deals at the moment (sub £500 PCs) with a decent spec, but a rubbish graphics card. you could always buy one and then stick in your own GFX and you'd have a pretty decent system. Although, obviously, it would be cheaper to build your own, as always.
MArzman, face it, your suggestion was poor. Buying cheap components at low spec is just a complete waste of money. You might as well just not buy a computer at all for all the good it will do you.
down, I suggest you check out Dell (I know I know), but they have some pretty decent deals at the moment (sub £500 PCs) with a decent spec, but a rubbish graphics card. you could always buy one and then stick in your own GFX and you'd have a pretty decent system. Although, obviously, it would be cheaper to build your own, as always.
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