decent Pc towers

[DennisTheMenace]

right as this thing may pop its clogs at any time (Bless its ticking away now ) anyone know where i can get a decent spec tower .. well no fully bloody loaded electric windows etc cheap ?

current jobbie is a time something or other with 512MB of ram (never seen any sheep in it)
AMD athalon 1600+
and a 40 gig HD (knocking on deaths door!)
And a crap sound/graphics card

so it needs to be better than that

TIA

[tvradict]

Dell Dimension 4600.

Spec it up to your needs mate. I recommend the P4 3.06 processor. and the speakers with Subwoofer on a Sound Blaster 5.1 are rather good DVD drive with seperate CDRW etc. Oh, and double memory

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_4600?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs

>> Edited by tvradict on Wednesday 3rd March 20:37

[dazren]

Click on the Dell link (PH sponsor) and get yourself something with a 17 flatscreen and a CD burner. Check if they are doing any special offers as your base machine before adding bits to the spec yourself. Oh add the subwoofer and speakers for car vids.

DAZ

PS - Cue comment from someone saying build your own PC for less than the cost of a &

>> Edited by dazren on Wednesday 3rd March 20:37

[Edt]

just got a 2nd hand Dell dimension 8200 with saucy 17" DVI tft screen, CD burner, woofer etc etc. Gave £600 for it.. its FAB

Ed

[pdV6]

Go to www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/PCs.html and click on the "Clearance PCs" link

[DennisTheMenace]

cheers chaps that novatech system looks i will have to have another look tomorrow night , The Dell systems are always rated highly so its decision time it has to be cheap as im off to Le Mans in june

[Roadrage]

build your own PC m8


Its not that hard plenty of guides about on the net if you dont know how.

[DennisTheMenace]

outlaw mate i would kill it even before it got plugged into the mains

I was having a look round last night and found a Mesh PC £699 inc vat etc etc "17 tft standard 3 year warranty etc etc

www.meshcomputers.com/updated/news_mat2800max.htm
What do you chaps reckon ? any good

[Roadrage]

not to bad depends what you want to use it for it a built in gefource 4 grafix card,its bit flakey on saying whaT THE GRAFIX CARD IS precisly


HAS IT GOT A AGP PORT to put abetter one in later.

hey and it dont put you self down man it not that hard putting a pc togeather m8.
dident you know they go trained mokeys doing it a Dell.

upgrading the one you got may be best option depending whats mother board its got

get a new hard drive faster prossecor and a desent grafix card

and bung it in a nice new tower case

www.pcmech.com/build.htm
guide there to building your own

failing that decide exactly what you want to do with the pc

ie do you want it for latest games ?
as what you intend ding with ing is real the decider on what you pay for it.



>> Edited by Roadrage on Tuesday 9th March 08:28

[Plotloss]

Denny, you deal with technical bits daily. Building a PC is a complete and utter doddle, way more simple than the average airfix kit...

Well worth thinking about as you get a much better machine at the end of it...

[GregE240]

DennisTheMenace said:

outlaw mate i would kill it even before it got plugged into the mains I was having a look round last night and found a Mesh PC £699 inc vat etc etc "17 tft standard 3 year warranty etc etc <a href="http://www.meshcomputers.com/updated/news_mat2800max.htm">www.meshcomputers.com/updated/news_mat2800max.htm</a> What do you chaps reckon ? any good

Denny, I think thats the PC deal my old fella went for last year. Mesh and 699, he's well chuffed with it, even plugged it in himself and set it up without resorting to phoning the family IT expert
The on paper spec of it sounded awesome, only downside was the cack graphics card (some on board shite with shared memory).

No big deal for Dr T as he only does a bit of photo editing and web surfing, plus the usual MS Word etc.

I also think my brother in law bought a load of PCs off them too, thats how he put the old fella onto them.

G.

>> Edited by GregE240 on Tuesday 9th March 08:43