Find me a desktop for £750!! Please!

[Djw John]

Right my Mum has very generously said that has a graduation present she will buy me a computer

So working on a budget of roughly £750 I ned the full lot! Desktop or tower, flat monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer and some decent software wouldnt go amiss.

I only really use it for pics and the net but would probably store music on as well.

All suggestions that arent full of geek speak appreciated!

Cheers
John

 

[BenWall]

you dont need to spend 750 if thats all your doing on it...and dont buy software

 

[Tiger]

better building your own its a doddle, i just build my 1st one and it booted up 1st time surprisingly, for about 350 i got the following:

p4 3.0 HT + coolermaster aero 7 fan+heatsink
1024MB Kingston ram
1 samsung dvd rom
2 pioneer 111D dvd burners
ati radeon 9800 pro graphics card
15 gig IDE hard disk
200 Seagate Barracudda SATA hard disk
floppy drive
internal mem card reader
keyboard, mouse etc etc

just need to get a dell 19" flat panel for about 170 quid and thats me

you'll get a top spec jobby for 750 notes

 

[Djw John]

I want a good one that'll last and not piss me off by being really slow! But cool, i'll take some cash instead

 

[rory182]

tesco have some great deals on just now John, Acer laptops for £299 - desktops too.

 

[BenWall]

dont do it, build your own! you know what your getting then, and then pc world wont charge you for the crap things they do...

If you take a pc to pc world and you tell them its fooked they will say that it needs reformatting and will charge you 70 notes, and all they do is press one button. pisses me off.

where you from, I work at a pc shop in derby, we make them for what u want, and there cheap and good.

Up to you in the end.

 

[Djw John]

From near Edinburgh so probably a bit far!!

 

[BenWall]

lol a little, do you know how to assemble a pc yourself?

 

[Djw John]

Nope!

 

[rory182]

AndyA4 builds em John maybe he'd help?

Warranty can be nice though if you cant be arsed.

 

[Djw John]

Got a couple of geeky mates who do! So gonna run it past them! Talking to one now but hesnot availble to build one for a while and the other is offline! Never even thought about building one!

 

[rory182]

make it into a home entertainment centre type of thing, video out, dvd burner, surround sound and all that jazz.

19" TFTs are cheap these days

 

[Djw John]

good thinking!

 

[Big Iain]

yeah u want a media centre

 

[rory182]

Intel P4 3GHz socket 775
Microstar Mainboard
onboard sound
onboard Video (AGP for further expansion)
1GB Dual Channel DDR Memory
200GB SATA Hard Drive
16x DVD Recorder (Dual Layer)
Floppy Drive

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Details[/FONT] Weight10.00 KgsPrice:£326.99
inc VAT 17.5% (£48.70)

for a base unit from priceless in glasgow.

 

[Djw John]

Trying to find parts comparable to this comp but with just 1 graphics card

 

[Djw John]

So basically, for the actual computer, I think I need the following!

processer
case
psu
motherboard
memory
harddrive
graphics card
sound card
dvd/cd writer
dvd/cd reader

So far got

processer-AMD Athlon 64 (ADA4600BVBOX) X2 4600+ socket 939 Dual Core 2.4Ghz 512kb and 512kb Cache
case & psu - Antec SLK1650/mt 350w Smart ATX Black Case
motherboard - MSI K9N Platinum nForce 570 socket AM2 retail
memory
harddrive - Maxtor 6V300F0 DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200RPM SATA II 16MB Cache - OEM
graphics card
sound card
dvd/cd writer - Pioneer DVR-111DBK 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM
dvd/cd reader - Sony CRX230E 52x32x52 CD-RW Internal IDE (Black) - OEM

Really confused about the motherboards!! Help me please!!

what else do I need except the peripherals?

 

[Strider]

You'll need some memory and a graphics card if that motherboard doesnt have onboard graphics.

IMO I'd get a decemt graphics card anway if you're gonna have a build like that

 

[Ross M]

yeah build it yourself. i built mine for about £400. n its top notch ... got everything i need. altho now microsoft say its an illegal version of windows i have :S which its not.

 

[Djw John]

I have no idea if it does or doesnt!!

So this is defo the way forward then? What about realibity issues?

 

[Gaz]

Have a look thru here http://www.aria.co.uk/Home.asp

 

[rory182]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/2707/dell-dimension-5150-pentium-d-805-2

 

[TwoSugars]

tesco have some great deals on just now John, Acer laptops for £299 - desktops too.

Dude, can u post a link up? I've looking out for cheap lappy.

 

[daz182]

www.dell.com

 

[BenWall]

lol dell

 

[Djw John]

Na defo gonna get the parts seperatly and build it up, or ratehr a mate is. Just need to know what parts to get!!

 

[tommyboy]

Ive got a Dell Dimension 3100, XP Media Edition, 19" flatscreen, subwoofer + good speaker upgrade (these produce awesome sound for the money), 250GB hard drive - free upgrade from 150GB. pentium 4 HT technology. DVD-RW, tv tuner, 2048MB memory another free upgrade from 1024.... and a free printer.

all for £550 quid online

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs