Well my old computer has died and I'm looking to buy a new computer. My dads giving me £1200 to spend on a computer, but I would rather not spend all of his money so I'll look at buying a cheaper computer too, so around £700-£1200? Soo what's the best computer I can buy for this price range? I'm currently looking at: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/ ... ll&tm=null Good computer for the price? Or no? I'm not going to buy online, so preferably in shop like Pc World, Currys, Dixons etc.
I like the specs. of the computer you found on pc world, but for your budget I'd be looking for Intel Quad Core - don't compromise with AMD. AMD processors are junk. For that price, you could get something with an overclocked processor that's like 3.6GHz, and like 8GB RAM. Or a normal computer with a top-end processor, 4 GB RAM, an epic hard drive, and a nice 20"-30" monitor.
I like Hp only because they have quite nice design.. But what about specs... Personally I would suggest You to build your own PC not buying the ready one.. It's much cheaper..
Scorpy sweetie, what are you using the computer for? Gaming? Watching movies? Like, do you need epic graphics or are integrated ones okay? Also, as the next few posts are probably going to reiterate, you should build your own rather than buying one prebuilt off a website. You can find deals and make your build a lot cheaper, and you have more control about what goes into it. And then find a nerdy friend to build it for you
Just for like normal stuff, browsing the web, making graphics, music, movies and bit of gaming. I don't know what integrated graphics are lol. I don't think I'll be able to build my own computer... too much hassle and I wouldn't know where to start, it'll be much easier for me just getting a prebuilt one. Btw, my mums giving me the money instead and she's only giving me £800 but I'll look at something a bit cheaper than that so I can buy a couple years warranty.
Building a computer isn't difficult at all. You just snap on a few pieces and connect a few wires and you're done. Really, its not hard or complicated and almost anyone could do it without problems.
You have a £1200 budget? wowsers! I'm guessing you don't need (urgently) a keyboard or mouse or screen? if that's the case build a nice pc instead of buying overpriced PC World crud. I'll build you one quickly from ebuyer.com Max. Budget: £1200 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/170039 CASE -£38 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151011 MOTHERBOARD - £71 (£109) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135514 POWER SUPPLY - £71 (£180) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131950 CPU - £154 (£334) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160748 GFX CARD - £109 (£443) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148036 RAM - £54 times 2(see below why) - £108 (£551) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164282 HDD - £55 (see below) (£606) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169683 DVD Drive - £16 (£622) http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151963 SATA cable *2 - £4 total (£626) reason for 8gb RAM is that if you're running 64bit Windows/Linux you'll want all the RAM you can get, it'll make things run so much smoother. I do video editing (i'm on a film-making course at uni) so the 8gb gets stretched quite a bit when i'm in: Avid Media Composer, Adobe After Effects CS4, Photoshop CS4 etc, so if you want a pc that'll run an ass-load of stuff all at once you'll want 8gb the hard drive... i have one of these and it's blazingly fast, you'll be shocked how fast windows etc loads with this hard drive! I didn't include operating system etc because I dunno if you have a legit/illegit OS already that you wanna use on it. But if you decide to buy one, get Windows 7, it's so very worth it I think I covered everything with that list, the graphics card is rather spiffing too, it'll play pretty much everything out right now and near-to-full settings so that's something you don't have to worry about If you need any more help just ask , putting together a PC is so incredibly easy, you'd be wasting your money paying for someone else to build you one when you can do it with just a screwdriver and 10 minutes (ok, more like an hour for a first-time builder lol) and you're set! Everything comes with instruction, so just follow them where you don't know what to do. And wow... this was a hell of a long post for me :O lol
Here are the type of specs you should be looking for: Processor -Dual core (3.2GHz+) -Quad core (2.0GHz+) Operating system (not important because you can reinstall whatever one you want later) -Windows XP (for speed and compatibility) -Windows Vista (flashy graphics, only works properly on better computers, more user-friendly) -Windows 7 (flashy graphics, great speed; not great with compatibility yet, but is still good, you'll just have to get an illegal copy for now) -Linux Ubuntu (user-friendly, good for things like web browsing and programming, bad for compatibility) -Gentoo Linux (only if you're super good with Linux and computers and know what you're doing) RAM -2GB (standard) -3GB (good) -4GB (good for just about everything) -4GB+ (you won't need any more RAM for a long time) Harddrive -250GB (standard) -500GB (large and good, you won't need a new HDD for a while) -1TB (excellent, you can store a bunch of movies, games, etc) Graphics card Since you said that you won't be playing too many games, I go for something basic, such as an nVidia GeForce 9500GT or better. If you get standard specs, you'll be spending only a quarter of your budget. If I were you, I'd take advantage of the opportunity and get a PC that'll last you 10 years. Any PC that's advertised for a great deal of money as a "good gaming rig" is probably what you'd be looking at. Usually the best gaming rigs have flashy lights and cool-looking cases
I used to build machines too, but with a small budget I figure buying them is good because of the awesome bundles out =D www.newegg.com has AWESOME deals, I can buy the parts seperately and build it for like $40 less, but it's such a headache incase one of the parts doesn't work, and sitting there tinkering etc. I only build them now if it's for a BADASS machine (like when windows 7 comes out im going to make an awesome one).
Ahhh thanks guys for all your help but really, I'm not going to be building a computer I'm really lazy lol, I'll probably mess it up and also I don't even have a credit card to buy online. Toesocks, thanks alot for compiling that the computer specs are amazing and only £626 . Andromeda, very, very useful information thanks.
no credit card? well tell your parents to get it for you, seriously though newegg has the best deals, for $700 you can get a badass machine at your door in a few days with keyboard mouse speakers and 22 inch monitor
I myself got a new computer recently. Although, i have no idea what to do with it, no games whatsoever. The prices for computers nowadays are damn affordable. Imagine years ago when i bought my 700Mhz computer @ $2K+.
if you could find someone willing to let you use their credit/debit card (and you give them the money) then this would be ideal for you: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158759 (NOTE: screen not included! and only on-board graphics card, but they're literally "click in", you open the side and click it into the right slot (they're all completely different sizes so don't worry, then just put the screen cable into the graphics card instead of the other slot )
warranties are a rip off, manufacturers are required by law to provide you with a like replacement if a product is defective past it's "expected life", so pretty much exactly what a warranty gives you...
How long exactly is a pc's expected life? ...or roughly? I think warrantys are quite good actually because my other pc only had the year warranty that every pc gets and everytime it became faulty, they fixed it free of charge. But because I didn't buy the extended warranty I had to pay everytime my computer had something faulty + had to pay for any replacement parts. I had a look in pc world at this computer: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/ ... oid=-35410 Specs are quite good, no? Standard warranty for 3 years is something like £210 Standard warranty for 5 years is around £270.. I also had the option of buying the 'premium' warranty which gives better service, first priorities etc for around £70 extra... can't remember the exact price. Is that a bit too expensive for warranty? Or do you think it's worth it? :S
Replacement parts for a pc? I've had all this hardware for 3 years and not had a single problem with them. Sorry to say but PC World are ripping you off making up excuses to charge you for "parts". Hardware for a pc is expected to last at least 2-3 years, that's the manufacturers guarantee. Next time you have problems with hardware contact the company that made the hardware rather than PC World Good pc, bad price. Overclockers UK are way cheaper: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 44&subcat= for example Ignore warranties, they're cons. The Sale Of Goods Act is protecting you anyway: http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_ ... _emp.shtml £270 for "peace of mind" is the biggest con ever
Oh okay thanks toesocks, I won't be buying warranty then. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167292 Does that computer look good to you for it's price as well? Gonna try get my parents to let me order my pc online instead... pc world looks wayyy over priced now lol.