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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 11:12:55 » |
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personal opinion is to build one yourself. for £500 you could have a very good PC which would kick the arss out of anything PC world would put together.
as for messing things up you'd have to be pretty heaqvy handed and impatiant for things to go wrong.
and there are loads of people on here to help you out.
if you lived near brum i'd build it for you
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« Reply #17 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 11:17:21 » |
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personal opinion is to build one yourself. for £500 you could have a very good PC which would kick the arss out of anything PC world would put together.
as for messing things up you'd have to be pretty heaqvy handed and impatiant for things to go wrong.
and there are loads of people on here to help you out.
if you lived near brum i'd build it for you
I'm afraid i live in Cirencester. Only about an hour away but the hassle of driving all the way up there! Thanks anyway! |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #18 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 12:31:52 » |
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I've bent the pins on a processor before, nothing to do with putting it together, just badly stored away. I just bent the pins back and it was fine  |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #19 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 13:26:25 » |
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About the same performance as a netbook, slow processor and on board graphics, would struggle to play flash games smoothly...such as you find in Faceache etc, I read a review recently and they said its ok but rubbish at mutlitasking and anything that you wouldnt ask a netbook to do. |
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« Reply #20 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 13:35:58 » |
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About the same performance as a netbook, slow processor and on board graphics, would struggle to play flash games smoothly...such as you find in Faceache etc, I read a review recently and they said its ok but rubbish at mutlitasking and anything that you wouldnt ask a netbook to do.
What do you need to look out for multiple programs running? |
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« Reply #21 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 16:17:17 » |
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Preferably quad core, lots of memory 4gb+ and get a processor with the highest amount of L2 and preferably L3 cache memory, core i5 or i7 are best but after that a core i3 then some of the newer AM3 Phenom II's have good levels but are slower than the comparable Intel chips.
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« Reply #22 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 16:23:08 » |
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« Reply #24 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 16:34:35 » |
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The core i3 system is the much better bet for future proofing and a much better processor, but if you can afford it and want to play games add in a graphics card of at least an ATI 5770 (£100ish) into that too and you will have a nice little system, if you dont play much games then the core i3 system isnt bad as it is. |
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« Reply #25 on: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 16:49:21 » |
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What JJ said, deffo the i3
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Nomoreheroes
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« Reply #26 on: Monday, December 26, 2011, 15:39:34 » |
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Any useful updates to this chaps?
Thinking of leaving the XP age and getting a new desktop. Haven't bought one in 8 years. Am thinking I should be looking for something that has i5, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD & DVDRW. Not sure what else to look for or how much to pay?
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« Reply #27 on: Monday, December 26, 2011, 15:54:24 » |
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Any useful updates to this chaps?
Thinking of leaving the XP age and getting a new desktop. Haven't bought one in 8 years. Am thinking I should be looking for something that has i5, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD & DVDRW. Not sure what else to look for or how much to pay?
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« Reply #28 on: Monday, December 26, 2011, 16:23:19 » |
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What's your budget?
£500-1000 |
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