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I always buy my PC's off this guy I know called Ray. He's really reliable and proffesional at buiding PC's. I gave him some specs for a new PC and he said he could do all of them except, he said that the Pentium4 chip and 3000mghz board costs around 400-500 alone.
So he suggested that I get a 2.4ghz PC as it's a lot cheaper and most of the games nowadays have a 600mghz minimum requirement speed. So he said that in roughly 5 years, the minimum requirement might just be up to about 2ghz. And we always change our PC's after about 5 years anyway.
The other specs are:
512MB
80GB
GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 128MB DDR graphics card with free games.
No modem as we have Broadband
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Dolby Digital sound card
Microsoft Windows XP home edition
Surround sound speakers.
And obviousley all the other programs like Word, paint and Excel.
He said he could build that for £1098
Do you think it's a good deal?
One I saw in Pc world which I was interested in had all of the above except surround sound speakers and the speed was 3.6ghz. BUT, it was by a company called Advent and I'd never heard of them.
So I asked Ray and he said the problem with Advent is that they build all of their components onto the mother board so if one goes wrong, they all go wrong where as Ray builds all of his stuff separately into it. He also creates drives C, D, E, F and G each with like 15GBs on them so again if I got a virus on one drive, wouldn't have to format the whole comp.
Oh I'm waffling on, anyway, do you think it's a good deal for £1098?
Thanks.
So he suggested that I get a 2.4ghz PC as it's a lot cheaper and most of the games nowadays have a 600mghz minimum requirement speed. So he said that in roughly 5 years, the minimum requirement might just be up to about 2ghz. And we always change our PC's after about 5 years anyway.
The other specs are:
512MB
80GB
GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 128MB DDR graphics card with free games.
No modem as we have Broadband
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Dolby Digital sound card
Microsoft Windows XP home edition
Surround sound speakers.
And obviousley all the other programs like Word, paint and Excel.
He said he could build that for £1098
Do you think it's a good deal?
One I saw in Pc world which I was interested in had all of the above except surround sound speakers and the speed was 3.6ghz. BUT, it was by a company called Advent and I'd never heard of them.
So I asked Ray and he said the problem with Advent is that they build all of their components onto the mother board so if one goes wrong, they all go wrong where as Ray builds all of his stuff separately into it. He also creates drives C, D, E, F and G each with like 15GBs on them so again if I got a virus on one drive, wouldn't have to format the whole comp.
Oh I'm waffling on, anyway, do you think it's a good deal for £1098?
Thanks.
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froots true man i dont know much but i know prices will drop!
With the Geforce FX coming out im sure Geforce 4ti prices will drop.. practically the all the parts should drop in price.
I reckon that they're probably going to release a Pentium 5 processor pretty soon, you might want to wait until then, once that’s out, every other PC will drop in price really rapidly. Then again, what would I know about these matters? Bah!
To me, it doesn't look like it's a particually good price.
I wouldnt buy a pc when mr blair keeps on saying war is the only answer.
The trouble is, you will always say "it will be cheaper in two months", but then in two months, you will say "there's a better model for the same price in two months" and keep putting it off.
You need to take the plunge some time and buy.
And the problem you are going to encounter from buying a PC from a small time manufacturer, such as this Ray, is that he won't give you any support if it breaks. Also, building a computer from scratch by hand causes many problems if it breaks, as the components aren't integrated, as they would be in a manufactured PC, and so it would be harder to isolate and fix the problem, and more expensive.
Large companiees like Dell and Msh provide excellent support, and if something does go wrong, it will be much simpler to fix, and they will do it for you if you can't sort it out yourself.
If you shop around you could easily get a PC equal to the one Ray is wiling to build, for the same price, but with extras such as scanner, printer, software thrown in, as well as warranties and the like.
You would do better to look around.
Ask SR about it, they have experience building quality computers, but of they are above your price range, shop around.
You need to take the plunge some time and buy.
And the problem you are going to encounter from buying a PC from a small time manufacturer, such as this Ray, is that he won't give you any support if it breaks. Also, building a computer from scratch by hand causes many problems if it breaks, as the components aren't integrated, as they would be in a manufactured PC, and so it would be harder to isolate and fix the problem, and more expensive.
Large companiees like Dell and Msh provide excellent support, and if something does go wrong, it will be much simpler to fix, and they will do it for you if you can't sort it out yourself.
If you shop around you could easily get a PC equal to the one Ray is wiling to build, for the same price, but with extras such as scanner, printer, software thrown in, as well as warranties and the like.
You would do better to look around.
Ask SR about it, they have experience building quality computers, but of they are above your price range, shop around.
Pretty good but i wouldnt splash yet till the summer.
Possum in a bottle wrote:
> DVD-ROM drive is a must.
> I don't want a DVD rom as I never watch them on this PC.
You really do want a DVD drive, they are not too much more expensive now either.
Why? Not just for films, but for Games, which will be coming on DVD's soon I imagine...
Plus, a few magazines now come with DVD's, which you get more trial apps etc for.
> DVD-ROM drive is a must.
> I don't want a DVD rom as I never watch them on this PC.
You really do want a DVD drive, they are not too much more expensive now either.
Why? Not just for films, but for Games, which will be coming on DVD's soon I imagine...
Plus, a few magazines now come with DVD's, which you get more trial apps etc for.
Advent are good. My mum's had one of their laptops for 2 years now and no problems at all. I think they specialise in laptops which is perhaps why they're not so well known in the PC market at the moment.
Things will change, I think laptops will soon be able to provide similar performance to top of the range PCs at similar prices. When that happens I'll get one.
Your custom built one sounds good value to me though.
Things will change, I think laptops will soon be able to provide similar performance to top of the range PCs at similar prices. When that happens I'll get one.
Your custom built one sounds good value to me though.
And yes I already have everything for Broadband as I'm on it now.
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