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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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> Go for an optical mouse would be another thing I would ask for at no
> extra cost.
Good point, I forgot bout the mouse. I've got a cordless at the mo and my friends got one of those optical red ones but I hate the wire.
> It's got USB? U wan't that.
I've asked for like 5 USB ports.
> DVD-ROM drive is a must.
I don't want a DVD rom as I never watch them on this PC.
> CD-RW drive would be nice.
It's got a CD-RW
> Go for an optical mouse would be another thing I would ask for at no
> extra cost.
Good point, I forgot bout the mouse. I've got a cordless at the mo and my friends got one of those optical red ones but I hate the wire.
> It's got USB? U wan't that.
I've asked for like 5 USB ports.
> DVD-ROM drive is a must.
I don't want a DVD rom as I never watch them on this PC.
> CD-RW drive would be nice.
It's got a CD-RW
Sounds good, but you could push to get a bit more. Do you already have the equipemt for broadband hook up? If not, get a Broadband "modem" thrown in. These are being sold at half price (for a basic one anyway) at certain places, try and get him to supply this as well for no extra cost.
Go for an optical mouse would be another thing I would ask for at no extra cost.
It's got USB? U wan't that.
DVD-ROM drive is a must.
CD-RW drive would be nice.
Go for an optical mouse would be another thing I would ask for at no extra cost.
It's got USB? U wan't that.
DVD-ROM drive is a must.
CD-RW drive would be nice.
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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