pcspecialist.co.uk

[Mark J]

has anyone used www.pcspecialist.co.uk before?

was looking to to get myself a new PC, and stumbled across their website

i 'built' this online for £630 (base unit only)

please excuse the alignment......

Cheers

Mark

EDIT - AFTER POSTING THAT, THE ALIGNMENT WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE....ILL SEND A LINK INSTEAD! LOL

 

[Mark J]

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php?page=results


AMD® ATHLON® 64BIT 3500 (Venice) 512kb (Special Offer)
2048 MB CORSAIR DDR400 PC3200 - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)
ASUS® A8N-E/M2N-E: DUAL DDR, S-ATA, x16 slot, 3 PCI etc
SIX USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT)
SATA 80 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache
16x +/- DVD WRITER (8x +/- Dual Lyr) (Lightscribe) (40x CD-RW)
16x +/- DVD WRITER (8x +/- Dual Lyr) (Lightscribe) (40x CD-RW)
256MB RADEON X1800GTO PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT
HIGH END ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL SOUND (RECOMMENDED)
10/100/1000 NETWORK CARD FOR BROADBAND
1.44MB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE
Stylish Silver/Black Trident case + 2 front USB500W (Peak)
Super Quiet Dual Rail PSU + 120mm fan & CPU Cooler

 

[TheCake]

Just type the spec or do a screen grab mate

 

[Mark J]

there we go, think thats cracked it!

 

[The Hoff]

Seems 'OK' i guess, but you/i could build a better system for cheaper than that.

 

[Mark J]

yeah, i guess i could buy everything seperately (sp)

how much you think that lot 'should' cost?

 

[The Hoff]

Basically good components:

CPU
Motherboard
RAM
PSU

Everything else you can skimp on to an extent, or add later. I reckon you could save £100 on that cost by shopping it up yourself. Aint got time now, fking busy today but ill check out current prices.

 

[BenWall]

less lol

 

[Mark J]

would like a good graphics card too, something along the lines of the ATI X1800 GTO as above.

Wasnt expecting you to go and research it all mate,

I need to wait at least a month anyway till i can afford it, but cheers oz

 

[Mark J]

well ive had another play around with that site, essentially the same things, but instead of the AMD processor, i went for a 3.2Ghz Intel P4.

knocked it down to £539

 

[BenWall]

[SIZE=+1]AMD Athlon 64 3800+ [/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2](£78.67
[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Asus A8N-VM [/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]£55.17
[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250GB [/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]£55.81 I
[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 [/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]£78.67 I
[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]XFX GeForce 6800 XT Extreme Edition[/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]£91.59 I
[/SIZE][/SIZE] sTemp = 'aCD_2d019_2dAS'; sTemp = sTemp.replace(/_2d/,'-'); sTemp = sTemp.replace(/_2d/,'-'); sTemp = sTemp.substring(1); sSKUs = sSKUs + sTemp + ';'; [SIZE=+1]Asus DRW-1608P3S 16x16 DVD±RW[/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]£28.14
[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Thermaltake VB1000SWS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - Silver (CA-014-TT)[/SIZE][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2](£50.47

=353.44 £££


then if u can affored

[/SIZE][/SIZE] sTemp = 'aMO_2d059_2dVS'; sTemp = sTemp.replace(/_2d/,'-'); sTemp = sTemp.replace(/_2d/,'-'); sTemp = sTemp.substring(1); sSKUs = sSKUs + sTemp + ';'; [SIZE=+1]Viewsonic VP2030b 20.1" LCD Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-059-VS)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]£411.19

from overclockers


sorry about the small font...


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[BenWall]

i will build if for you aswell for £15 lol

 

[Mark J]

yeah, seems a good price, cheers for that mate

 

[Mark J]

i will build if for you aswell for £15 lol

lol, ill be ok mate

 

[wozzaa]

well ive had another play around with that site, essentially the same things, but instead of the AMD processor, i went for a 3.2Ghz Intel P4.

knocked it down to £539

3.2ghz P4 is a fair bit slower than the 3500+ from AMD.

And the other system from overclockers is fine until you see the Vid card which is basically a cut down 6800 with badges on to make it seem worthy of being purchased.

 

[BenWall]

ok then, but as the total price comes to 350, then if u wanted you could get 2 nvidia cards in SLI, but then u will be bottle necking ur pc.

 

[Mark J]

need to have a good look at various places really, i just noticed this site, and id actually seen a fairly top spec one for about £350 without a monitor, but then i started adding extras on, and it soon doubled the price lol

 

[Daz]

3.2ghz P4 is a fair bit slower than the 3500+ from AMD.

Completely depends on the task. The P4 (Prescott) destroys the 3500+ Venice at Video encoding for example.
And, it's quicker in a few other tasks too.. so "a fair bit slower" isn't 100% the case.

 

[Clart]

go for the opteron 146 and clock it to fx-57 speeds.

 

[Griff]

go for the opteron 146 and clock it to fx-57 speeds.

Did you get one in the end then Clart?

 

[wozzaa]

The 3.2 does beat it in video encoding but thats cause of the HT really. Audio encoding which i do more of the amd is better and also gaming its better but meh i went with dual core anyways as i needed it for work i was doing.