Ralphy
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« on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 17:27:35 » |
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Right i'm in the process of having a new pc built.
What sort of price do you think the following will cost
New motherboard
Dual core (or possibly quad core) processor
4 gb RAM
200 - 300 gb Hard drive
A decent sound and graphics card
My mum is enquiring at Brookes and it's looking like £200-£250.
Is that a good price?
Basically having a whole new pc built.
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 17:31:29 » |
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If you purchase the parts seperately and use dual core AMD
if this does not include an operating system then for the spec you suggest I would say that £150-170 is near the mark but all depends on how good a sound card and graphics card you have as the price varies from £2.50 for a cheap sound up to hundreds of pounds and from £25 for a cheap graphics up to ..well the skys the limit.
For a basic system without XP and a small hard drive like you want I usually charge around £180 including building it but without XP or Vista...with XP or Vista you can add about £40 to that.
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 17:38:55 » |
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£40 for genuine XP? Can you sell them on the sly like that, minus new pc please?  My old man's having some shitty problems with his and i have a good mind just to stick a genuine OS on his PC for the first time. |
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 18:20:27 » |
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I bought my all-in-one Windows disk off eBay a few years ago. £15, i think, the auction got shutdown, which was predictable, but i got every version of windows ever, along with all MSN, Media Players and DX. He also threw in Office 2000 Pro.
That was a proper bargain, as it can build isos for me as well.
I also got a few grand of music software once as well. eBay is ace for that, and Dazza, i may just have to take a gander if my old man kicks up a stink again tonight. Thanks.
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Ralphy
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 19:52:53 » |
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This includes building and Vista.
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 19:56:17 » |
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An OEM copy of windows xp cost me £50 from dabs.
Ralphy, the first thing I would do is ditch 2gb of memory, you don't need 4gb.
Personally I think the AMD dual core chips are poor value for money compared to Intel. A quad core processor is going to cost you around a tonne and fifty and probably not in your budget or needs.
What will you use it for?
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Ralphy
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 20:17:06 » |
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Ok first off, all these parts will be bought at wholesale price so cheaper than normal  As for quad core, I figured it's the top processor currently so I may as well future proof myself for a few years? My PC will be used for gaming, surfing the net and music. |
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 20:23:25 » |
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You want to spend more money on the graphics Ralphy, if that's what you're going to use more.
Get an 8800GT graphics card if you're into gaming. The true directx10 games will be out this year, although I think that's all over-hyped bollocks. But this card will let you have some good resolutions (better than a console) at high settings.
Memory is cheap as fuck anyway, so you'd only save a bit by dropping to 2ghz, especially if wholesale so I guess there is no harm in that. Would be better off getting faster memory though than more of a lower speed imo.
You going to be running vista 64bit then?
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 20:25:51 » |
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I assume so yes?
I honestly don't know much about pc's Si.
Is this the newest version of Vista?
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 20:27:38 » |
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It's the 64bit version. The 32bit version can only address 3gb of memory, so buying 4gb is a waste of money.
Magazine I bought yesterday built a decent gaming machine for £300
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 20:33:51 » |
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The hardware support department at Oxford Brookes is building it for me so I assume it will be 64bit Vista.
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, January 25, 2008, 07:15:08 » |
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It's the 64bit version. The 32bit version can only address 3gb of memory, so buying 4gb is a waste of money.
Magazine I bought yesterday built a decent gaming machine for £300 which mag? |
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, January 25, 2008, 09:55:14 » |
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, January 25, 2008, 10:39:03 » |
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Actually it was PCFormat
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