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I am a bit rubbish when it comes to PC's TBH.I am after buying a new desktop tower to use alongside my existing home pc (and connect with KVM switch so no monitor,keyboard or mouse required just the tower).It needs to be powerful has it will mainly be used for HD video editing,authoring and rendering (which are very processor hungry tasks).I have a new sealed copy of Windows 7 and a spare copy of XP64 bit so don't really need one with a OS.Don't need Blu Ray drive as I have a spare one of those as well.Looking at a budget of about £400ish.Found this one which looked OK for the money.Anyone know of a better option,don't mind paying a few extra quid if really necessary (just won't tell the wife !).Be really grateful for any help.
Noticed Garin mentioned overclockers.co.uk - I recently bought a new PC from them and haven had no issues. However, the shipping company they used (DPD) was terrible. Long story short I paid extra for a Saturday delivery as I'm at work every weekday, they screwed up and after being promised a pre-10am delivery every day since then (and waiting around and at home and being 30mins late for work a couple of days running) I eventually got the delivery at 11PM at night on Wednesday.
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.
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.
Checked that site before and seem to be able to get pretty much what I was after for around £500 so not too bad.Like the way you can pick and choose exactly which components you require.Thanks again for the heads up guys,appreciated :)
pete_21 wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
Thanks for the advice Garin,appreciated.Will check out those sites later on.
Well, its a pre-built PC, I think you can guarantee the CPU has a heatsink & fan attached. And that 500W PSU is sufficient to run it. (700W to run that would be insane tbh).
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.
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.
Thanks for the help DL,appreciated.Do you reckon I should dismiss it from my list of possibles ?.
Anyone got any alternative suggestions ?.
Anyone got any alternative suggestions ?.
Just had a quick look at pc, pete. I'm no expert, but I would have expected a larger PSU, 700w not 500w and there doesn't seem to be any mention of processor cooling which most processors need these days - liquid or otherwise.
I am a bit rubbish when it comes to PC's TBH.I am after buying a new desktop tower to use alongside my existing home pc (and connect with KVM switch so no monitor,keyboard or mouse required just the tower).It needs to be powerful has it will mainly be used for HD video editing,authoring and rendering (which are very processor hungry tasks).I have a new sealed copy of Windows 7 and a spare copy of XP64 bit so don't really need one with a OS.Don't need Blu Ray drive as I have a spare one of those as well.Looking at a budget of about £400ish.Found this one which looked OK for the money.Anyone know of a better option,don't mind paying a few extra quid if really necessary (just won't tell the wife !).Be really grateful for any help.