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« Reply #15 on: Friday, February 6, 2009, 11:34:30 »

You could always get an Appe iMac, a 20" model costs just under £800. Personally I reckon they are worth every single penny, though I'm sure plenty of people will disagree.
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« Reply #16 on: Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:50:24 »

I could and would easily build you a really good gaming system for that price, if that price was for a system with no monitor or kb or mouse or speakers then you would get a bloody good gaming system for that price.

If you need the above then you will still get something much better than Dell or PC World could sell you for £500 extra.

Avoid systems with anything less than a 9800+ or 4800 graphics card as that will be the thing that knocks the price up.

I normally charge friends/aquaintances £40-50 to build a system and install XP/Vista plus postage costs as I live in Somerset not locally to Swindon.

But...if you want an off the shelf system with a montiro then I would suggest
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155476

Processor
    * Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Quad Core Processor (2.50Ghz, 6MB Cache)
Memory
    * 4GB DDR2 800Mhz
    * Memory Slot: 2 x DIMM
Hard Drive
    * 1TB (1x1TB) SATA300 Hard Drive
Optical Drive
    * 20 x Super multi DVDRW
Software
    * Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Premium
Graphics
    * nVIDIA® GeForce 9800GTX+ 512MB DDR3 Graphics Card
Input Devices
    * Mouse and Keyboard (included)
Networking
    * Interface: 10/100/1000 LAN, Realtek® RTL8111B
Power Supply
    * 500W Power Supply Unit
Interfaces
    * 1 set 5.1 channel Audio jacks (3 jacks)
    * 1x PS/2 keyboard port
    * 1x PS/2 mouse port
    * 1x Parallel port
    * 1x Serial port
    * 6x USB 2.0 ports
    * 1x RJ45 LAN port
    * 2x DVI
Expansion
    * 52in1 Flash Card Reader

£679 inc VAT

Then add £104 inc VAT for a Samsung 20" monitor
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151436

Thats £783 inc VAT and Delivery.

Obviously I could make a better system for less but including the cost of building and postage to you after the costs may be offset a little.

Or do as Magic says....build it yourself.....it takes me about 30 mins to knock a PC up together from parts and 2 hours to install and set up and optimise XP or Vista, so an amatuer could easily put one together inside of a day with little problems.
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« Reply #17 on: Friday, February 6, 2009, 13:17:17 »

www.pcspecialist.co.uk
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, February 6, 2009, 14:28:24 »


fuck that.

i just speced up the same components as per my build and it came to over £1k.
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« Reply #19 on: Friday, February 6, 2009, 20:50:49 »

I got an ace deal.
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #20 on: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 13:57:51 »

You could buy a 2gb machine and just add the extra RAM in yourself, which is likely to save you some cash and it's very easy to do.
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