PC for under £400
 

Where can I get a PC for under £400. I would like it to have at least 1mb cache, 512mb ram, 80gb hardrive. 15" TFT, DVD ReWriter drive (+ and -).

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Tesco are doing some good offers at the mo, do you know anyone who could build one for you???

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Go to the Dell website, they sell refurbished/returned pcs with warranty for a reasonable price. If not E-Buyer are pretty good.

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I reccommend www.pccare.ik.com

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Just got a leaflet through the door from DELL today.
£399+VA T (£468 inc) gets you a Dell Dimension 5100
Pentium 4, 541 (3.2Mhz, 1mb L2 cache, 800Mhz FSB)
17" Flat Panel Monitor
512Mb DDR2 RAM
160GB HD (SATA 7200rpm)
Intergrated Audio
Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics.
Integrated Intel Pro 10/100 Network card
16xDVD+/-RW Drive
Windows XP Home & MS-Works 7.0
1 year collect & return service.

Seems like a good deal to me if you want a brand name.
You just couldn't build one cheaper.

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Flubflow, do you have the link to that offer?

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The Dell "E-Value" order code on the leaflet is: DMUK4-D07512

The normal price was £469+VA T (£551 inc)

EDIT: Dell sales line is: 0870 907 5811
Link: www.dell.co.uk/b2b (although I can't seem to find the exact code).
Also seems to be a free delivery special offer on some items (2 days left).

EDIT2: http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...07512&x=3&y=11
or if that link don;t work, use this .......
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/to...n&s=bsd&~ck=pn
and enter the above E-Value code (and you can customize the specs).

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Evesham.com do some good deals. That's where I got mine from.

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Bah, 1MB cache means you're limited to P4. As you're working to such a limited budget, you're gonna have to cut some corners elsewhere.

If I was looking to beat £400 then I'd go for an Athlon 64bit 3000+ instead of a P4. At least this would mean you have more freedom for all the other components. But, it does not have 1MB cache, only 512Kb.

Why are you insisting on 1MB cache?

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OK a 512 cache will be fine

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www.meshcomputers.com

I have one from there cost me £550 but thats with a ati x700 pci-e card.

You could configure the same system without the card for about £420 perhaps, which would give you a PCI-E mainboard a Athlon 64 3000 newcastle core processor 512mb DDR ram, and a 80gb SATA HD, with keyboard and mouse.

However for a monitor you would be stuffed although I have a 17inch CRT I could let go for about £20.

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try www.dell.co.uk/epp (don't tell I sent ya!) Extra 7% off Dell!!!

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For the money you pay for a Dell I am sure you could get a much better AMD computer.

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Just remember to add another 50 quid for delivery....

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you might end up paying more to have it custom built for you (or to build it yourself) but do you need that software? You're paying for it.

Also, a custom-built one will be more upgradeable in future.

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Do a build yourself, cheaper and the satisfaction is well worth the effort, feel good factor.

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Does Dell need you to verify who you are for the discount?

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Don't know someone passed me the link earlier today as I am looking for a new PC and cannot be bothered with home builds anymore. :D This is still a good way to make a PC to your "own" standards/specification :D

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In my opinion Dell are doing a lot of consumers a dis service,They throw all these offers around to attract your attention then either as mention charge £50 quid for delivery and give you a free printer sized paper weight,or imo send you an inadequate pc that you will have trouble upgrading (Dells own cpu cooler and Dells own motherboard that fits nowhere else) If all you want is an office machine with an over powered cpu the Dell offer is good.Imo if you want a decent alround pc look at mesh or evesham and try to buy an Amd64

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To be honest, I think the thing that usually sells Dell for businesses is the next day on site warranty/support - Dell machines are average solid machines, but their aftercare is very good

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Delivery is free right now. No free printers.

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still does not change my opinion,all these cheap pcs a lot of companies not just Dell are selling are doing the whole PC industy an injury.People who know nothing see Dell on tv and think wow a pc for £379 with a tft thats wicked,till they get it home and chuck a game at it,you can almost hear Dell cackling " It wont play doom 3 heheheheh" People are always misinformed or just plain not told stuff to sell them something.I think its wrong it gives the industry a bad name

People come to me and say can you build me a machine like that.I always ask what do you need it for,if the cap fits then ill build it if not ill tell them,if they walk they walk at least they will not go to there m8s "he sold me a piece of sh*t"

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A DELL is an appliance, not a PC - usually miserably poor upgradabliity ... some other OEMs are almost as bad, but Dell is the worst for really OEM-crippled components.

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I agree Dell suck my view for what I want.

Mesh are a wicked group of people and are well recommened by myself.

And I do have one of there systems.

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Recommended to you by me :LOL:

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Aye Mesh are very good and my 2nd system for my gf is soon to be delivered from them also.

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No you're not.