Interest free credit ?

[nevpugh308]

Okay, so as my current PC wont play Doom3 I'm thinking of buying a new PC, but I dont have the cash free at the moment ... anyone know of anyone reputable doing interest free credit or buy-now-pay-later deals at the moment ?

(the other alternative is to build my own to try and save a bit of cash (some bits and bobs I've already got, e.g. decent HDD, decent speaker system etc) but I've never built a PC before, so I'm not sure about that)

Cheers
Nev

[chim_girl]

Get a Barclaycard, they're offering 0% until Aug 2005 on purchases and balance transfers, subject to a maximum of £5000.

This will also mean you could potentially buy a better spec PC with your money. The cost of BNPL and Interest Free are 'hidden' in the cost of the item you're buying.

Apply Here

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[rsvmilly]

Dell now do a gaming machine for around £1200. Don't think it includes monitor etc.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/dimen_xps?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

Aria have a good reputation;

www.aria.co.uk/newAriaSystems.asp


But building your own is pretty straightforward and very rewarding. I've built my own for the last 8-10 years.

BTW nice car. A friend of mine has a beautiful clean late 328. I've still to drive it!!

[nevpugh308]

rsvmilly said:

But building your own is pretty straightforward and very rewarding. I've built my own for the last 8-10 years. BTW nice car. A friend of mine has a beautiful clean late 328. I've still to drive it!!

I guess the biggest problem I've got is figuring out what works with what ... for example, I've been looking at the Asus K8N-E motherboard which supports SATA drives, but I've already got a spare 160gig IDE drive which I'd like to use in the short term (to save a bit of cost) but I can't figure out if the Asus would support it or not ?!? {sigh}

And thanks for the compliment

[julianhj]

www.scan.co.uk do 10 months interest free credit, and are cheap as chips in the first place. I'm seriously tempted...

[rsvmilly]

You could consider one of the Shuttle small form factor PCs. I put one together for my sister and it is really good. If you get one like the SN41G2V2 it even comes with tolerable on-board graphics (geforce 4mx);

www.aria.co.uk/productsList.asp?Category=140&Submit=submit

All you need to add is a processor, RAM, CD/DVD writer, your HDD and a floppy if you must. You can then get a better graphics card when funds allow.

[nevpugh308]

Thanks for the thoughts all. I like the idea of the 0% credit card, and the stuff on scan.co.uk looks rather interesting too, worth a perusal