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"Buying A PC"

Hi all, just wondering if you could lend me a hand or two. Seeing as my current pc is beginning to splutter and suck at everything it does I have decided its time to get a new one, problem is I dont really know where to start.

I have up to £1500 to spend and Id rather buy one pre-build although I could probably build one myself if need be. So just looking for recommendations of where to go what to buy ect ect.

I want it for gaming mostly along with some coursework for college and other general tasks. I was considering waiting for SR to bring back its MAXX pcs but its been a while since they were last here and I don;t know if they are still planning on re-introducing them.

Thanks, any help is much appreciated.

No, but I was simply giving advice from the period in which I was concerned with games.

Coatsy wrote:
> No, but I was simply giving advice from the period in which I was
> concerned with games.

Out of date advice.

Fine then

Coatsy wrote:
> it is possible to play reasonably demanding games on Virtual PC. Macs have
> a better operating system anyway.

No it's not, I've tried serveral tmes to try and get BF2/Guild Wars/Far Cry and Splinter Cell to work on VPC/G5 and it's not possible due to the huge overhead running VPC in the first place let alone the inadequate graphical capabilities of a Mac.

Oddly enoough though, have had FC running under Linux.

gr13ve, stick with PC's if you wanna go gaming and gnore any pointless Mac banter.

Hey guys, thanks for all the advice.

Gerrid fancy telling me where you got the prices for those components?

overclockers.co.uk. You can find them cheaper probably, but only by about £5 - £10, or if somewhere has special offers. Overclockers are reliable too, unlike ebuyer, or microdirect. It's a good site to use because everything is very easy to find.

I'd go for the X2 4400 myself , rather than the FX 55 (in fact, I am...)

Generally speaking, overclockers are fairly good on prices. Ebuyer is generally cheaper (www.ebuyer.co.uk) but simply doesn't have many of the high quality components that overclockers stocks, things like premium grade low latency ram and so on. The sort of things you'll want to buy if you're spending £1600.

Whatever you save trying to shop elsewhere you'lll probably lose on postage since they probably won't have all the components you want (unless of course they offer free postage)

an X2 isn't going to be particularly good for games, seeing as none of them are programmed to use dual cores. Also I reckon that when games take advantage of dual cores, the current generation of X2s won't be top of the range anymore. I suppose it's up to you though.

Also ebuyer are complete tools if something goes wrong. I ordered a wireless router from them 2 weeks ago, and it's been "Goods Allocated" the whole time, even though there were originally 30 odd in stock, and with a promise to "Deliver by Tuesday 20th August". You've gotta wait 20 or so minutes on the phone and they dont respond to emails for 7 days. I really wouldn't reccommend them

Don't buy from ebuyer, unless you're looking for the absolute cheapest. But with that goes the weak customer service, slow delivery and oversized boxes. Reminds me of SR.