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"Damn PC World"

I decided to get my Club 77 PC upgraded, from a quite slow 500Mhz to something with a little more Ooompf! I rang the PC World Technical support number a few days ago and they said I would be able to get it upgraded to a 1.5Ghz Celeron with 256Mb Ram and a 64Mb Graphics card, with the addition of a new motherboard for around £250. Upon arrival at my nearest PC World today, i was told by a man there that they didn't even sell 1.5 Celerons, and it would certainly cost more than £350. They advised buying a new PC altogether which really annoyed me as I had a years warranty left! They said to play games I would need 1.7Ghz at least, over 256Mb Ram an really expensive motherboard etc. I think that is far too extreme. So what do you guys think I should do? Where do you get you PC's upgraded? Should I buy a new one or should I complain to the PC World Tech department? Thanks

I decided to get my Club 77 PC upgraded, from a quite slow 500Mhz to something with a little more Ooompf! I rang the PC World Technical support number a few days ago and they said I would be able to get it upgraded to a 1.5Ghz Celeron with 256Mb Ram and a 64Mb Graphics card, with the addition of a new motherboard for around £250. Upon arrival at my nearest PC World today, i was told by a man there that they didn't even sell 1.5 Celerons, and it would certainly cost more than £350. They advised buying a new PC altogether which really annoyed me as I had a years warranty left! They said to play games I would need 1.7Ghz at least, over 256Mb Ram an really expensive motherboard etc. I think that is far too extreme. So what do you guys think I should do? Where do you get you PC's upgraded? Should I buy a new one or should I complain to the PC World Tech department? Thanks

Clearly the person on the phone was talking bull. I'm not even sure if 1.5GHz Celerons exist and also for £250. Sorry but that guy clearly had one too many. But the guy at the shop was also talking complete bull. No way do you need 1.7Ghz and 256MB RAM to run games. I've got a Athlon XP 1900+ which actually runs at 1.6Ghz and 128Mb RAM and I actually think at the moment that is probably overkill.

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed by PC World because of this and only a day or two ago I was quite happy with them (they replace something I had ripped open and it wasn't broken).

If you are thinking of upgrading I would recommend you get them to do it. Have you got one of those health check things coming up. The thing where you get the whole PC checked and upgrades bought there are freely installed instead of there usual rip-off prices.

Really you just need to walk around the store for a while picking out what YOU want.

PC World actually sell some high-level stuff at near-reasonable prices, because they know if you actually WANT that kind of stuff then you also know how much you should be paying for it. I got a 10/100mbit full duplex Ethernet card (with Linux modules!) plus 2 metres of CAT 5 (I actually wanted crossover, but a wire stripper and solering iron later it was OK) for £15.99. You can get cheaper, but it was worth it, considering it's 10 minutes down the road, I'm happy.

The best way to upgrade your PC is to do it yourself, buy the (right) components and fit them yourself. If you know what you're doing that is :D. Most components are easy to fit except for the motherboard.

What do people have against fitting motherboards? It's blatently obvious which way they go in and how to fix them, and even more so if you have a removeable motherboard tray..

They're more daunted by the wires and everything that goes in them, but now after having actually seen and been stabbed by a motherboard not produced by Packard-Bell and friends, it's really quite simple.

..except my power and HDD leds don't work. I must have a chat with p;hil about that...

Any other LEDs you can test on them? Didn't look at your case, but mine has very easy to remove LEDs..alternatively, try shoving the case lights on to the header of another mobo..

..If you're really that bothered about the flashy light. Then again, I'm the one with bloo modded case/hdd LEDs..

Meh, I'm bringing her out for a general rewiring after the great cs0r tonight, I'll see what I can do and bug you about it then...

I recommend you take a look at novatech.co.uk as they have a decent range of products, and are also reasonably cheap ;)

Mm, best thing to do. Is just stay away from PC World.

Dont buy anything from them. Especially pc's.

They lie. Told my parents that this box was a 300Mhz Cyrix II. What is it? a 233Mhz. 3Gig HDD? No, 2 actually.

Probably lied about the screen size too.