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The overclockers guys were helpful and got me all the delivery charges back, but the DPD people always made the right promises but never delivered on them which was incredibly galling.
> Thanks for the advice Garin,appreciated.Will check out those
> sites later on.
Have bought from pcspecialists, pete and can recommend them - as Garin says, you can re-configure a 'suggested' machine, swop parts etc and come up with a price to suit you and to suit your requirements. As for the PSU 'size', for future upgrades you may find that the installed PSU is too small and you never know when you might install a better graphics card, extra fans or cooling devices, cpu etc etc. I don't think anyone buying a new machine can avoid considering 'future-proofing' to a certain extent.
I think what you do have to be aware of with something like that its quite a high spec for the price. Therefore they'll cut corners elsewhere. For instance you can guarantee the case is cheap and worth about £5. I bet the CPU fan is not even the stock one so I bet its noisy. The PSU will be cheap as well, so it probably wont have a long life at maximum efficiency (and be noisy too).
Whether things like noise are an issue for you I dont know.
Having said that its probably a perfectly fine PC.
Have a look at places like overclockers.co.uk, cclonline.com and pcspecialist.co.uk. I mention them specifically because they tend to list the make & model of every component (case, psu etc.) so you know exactly what you're getting. If nothing else it'll give you some extra price comparisons.
Anyone got any alternative suggestions ?.