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My PC has reached the ripe old age of 7 and has begun to really annoy me.......time for a replacement. Any suggestions for a good deal? Ta

www.ebuyer.com

How about:

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Specification:

Product Description: ASUS PC, V3-P5G31, BLACK & SILVER, S775
CPU TYPE: INTEL E5200 2.5 Ghz
Socket Type: 775
Max FSB: 1333 MHz
RAM: 4GB DDR2 667 800Mhz
Max RAM: DDR2 - 800
Expansion Slots: 1x PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1, 2x PCI
Graphics:Integrated
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5 SATA
IDE: 1
SATA: 4 x SATA II
LAN: 10/100/1000
Audio: Realtek 6 channel
Dimension WxHxD: 168mm (W) x 354mm (H) x 380mm (D)
Power Supply: 300 Watt
USB Ports: 2x front panel/4x rear panel
OS Support: Windows XP/Vista
Additional Features: ASUS CrashFree BIOS3


Delivered for £249.00 Inc Vat FREE Delivery


No monitor but you can pick them up cheap as chips.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/alienware-aurora-alx/pd.aspx?refid=alienware-aurora-alx&s=dhs&cs=19

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

Build it yourself on there. I recently got a quad core AMD, 4gb RAM, Nvidia 9800GT, 500gb HDD for less than £400.

Those Alienware computers have always been horribly overpriced

Have a look over tesco's,I got my dell Inspirion from there for £300 (base unit only) which is better than the one i got from tiny that cost triple that.

tesco do reasonable packages or go to dell direct if you dont mind waiting.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-inspiron-545s?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

i know, i was just being fickle, due to the lack of info given by 4d.
I actualy customised in and spec'd it up to the max it cam up about $9,932 but it woulnt let me post that one. :-)

I might buy myself one of those for work!

Oh I'd already assumed that by the fact it had 'Dell' in the link :)

You can buy a Thai bride with that sort of money.

Bought a desktop from this eBay seller (http://computers.shop.ebay.co.uk/Desktop-PCs-/179/i.html?_catref=1&_fln=1&_ipg=&_ssn=centralcomp_media&_trksid=p3911.c0.m282) recently and he seems to have some great prices.

Theres loads of good cheap deals out there, wat is your price range? what do you want to do with it? Do you want an operating system included etc etc

Avoid Intel Celery(celeron) or older AMD Phenom processors, go for a minimum of dual core (2.4ghz+ speed), 2gb ram, 500gb hard drive and dont get one with dedicated onboard graphics, even an 8400gs (£12.50p) is better than onboard.

Seriously build one yourself there so easy to build yourself these days. Shop & online prices are so inflated it's disgraceful considering a lot only put cheap parts in.

I built a Quad Core 955 (Black Edition)

ASUS GFX Mobo

8GB Reaper Ram

4890 HD RAdeon GFX Card

1TB HDD

OCZ Heat Pipe (CPU Cooler)

Antec 300 Gaming Case

I also orded a Iiyana 24" HD monitor all came to less than £600

Try and build that spec on a specialist site and that price will literally double.

I would be very very surprised if you can get that spec for anything under £750 at the moment RJack, the exchange rate is not favourable.

You also have to price in an operating system which will add another £70+ on top of that and running a 4890 you will need a fucking good 650w+ PSU as they eat electric (another £70+ for a good one).

But in essence you are correct, if you have the time and the inclination then building your own PC can be cheaper and rewarding.

Look on Dells site.

Good one!

Get one of these.

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I wish I still had one :(

Nah, he's too busy being a grandad to build PCs

Isn't that the BBC Model A and not the more popular Model B?

The best version of Basic ever.

:D

hahahahaha, thats funny. It WAS a joke right?........

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=43

Have a look there - currently they are offering some pretty good deals with part built PC's

I was up there visiting them last week and they are selling a cracking amount of kit through this method....

I'd love to find a cheap working BBC, there must still be old school store cupboards full of them.

Look I've still got my little box of disks.

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That bottom one could contain almost anything. The mystery is driving me mad.

Old floppy disks smell nice

Old floppies do have a sort of oily, almost dieselly afternote!

There are a few on Ebay going for around £25, I did used to love playing Elite and writing teletext pages at college on them back in 83-84.

The feel of the keyboard in comparison to the feel of the "dead fish" spectrum keyboard was awesome.

dare devil dennis was an ace game

I reckon you must have psychic x-ray photo vision.

[url width=653 height=490]http://j.photos.cx/IMG_0446-257.jpg[/url]

Very next disk.

Spooky.

Loved Elite, Revs, Knightlore, Beach Head, Zaxxon, Sabre Wolf, Frak & JSW etc but those obviously arent exclusive to the beeb.

The Model B was far in advance of everything available at the time (81-83) it is rightly a classic.

jet set willy

I didn't know there was a beeb version of jet set willy. You learn something everyday.

See my post above :D

Chucky Egg was ace! Its no Grannys garden granted but had good music!

At school we used to have to play this rubbish "game" called Locks - anyone remember that?

Damn abreviations..

So you've said about a pc...What about a monitor? Where are they as cheap as chips?

I've heard really good things about the BenQ G2220 HD for a monitor under 150 notes.

I always go for the cheapest monitor I can find of the size I want, that has got good reviews on Amazon (or somewhere similar). Last one I bought was a Hanns-G 19" for under £100 (it was a while ago) and its perfect.

Hmmm. That doesnt sound 'as cheap as chips' to me!

I'm not sure Alba make computer monitors so you might be a bit stuck.

RAM: 4GB
Processor: Quad
OS: Premium
HD: Min 300GB
Monitor: Min 19"
Price: Under £500 (hopefully)

See jayohhaitchenn's post and add a monitor from wherever you desire and it should still be in the sub £500 range.

I see what you are saying Si, I just come unravelled at the words "build it yourself"  :nod:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NxsHpaL_s

Piece of piss.

Don't they build it for you? I thought you specced it up and then they build it to order, perhaps I didn't get the right idea.

If you can build lego you can build a pc, but I can understand why someone wouldn't want to do this. It's definitely far easier than putting together some flat pack furtniture with dodgy instructions, though I must admit I've never had any problems with that too.

A flat screen 19" monitor can cost around £80. That is cheap in my eyes.

Both of these are Quad cores with 1TB HD and 4GB ram. No monitor, but have a look at Misco.co.uk for clearance, i got a 19" viewsonic off there for £70.

Phenom X4 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-Phenom-X4-Quad-Core-9-2Ghz-4Gb-1Tb-NVIDIA-DVDRW-XP_W0QQitemZ320427886468QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item4a9afd8784&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)
Intel Quad Core (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INTEL-64-CORE-2-QUAD-X4-4GB-1TB-1000GB-DVDRW-XP-OFFICE_W0QQitemZ190337372928QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item2c50fdd300&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)
Phenom X3 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-AM2-PHENOM-X3-4GB-RAM-1000GB-HDD-GEFORCE-7-XP-PRO_W0QQitemZ190311518963QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item2c4f7352f3&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)

I actually bought the third one about 6 months ago, but got it for less than that, £250 i think, so don't know whether prices are rising. Also, I was of the understanding that XP, at least 32bit, doesn't recognise more than 2 cores?

Thats mine that is

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