New pc required
 

Hiya all, well its been on and off for bloody ages this has, anyways to cut along story short, I decided I wanted a new gaming system in October 2004, we almost got a loan in November for two Alienwares for some reason bank did not give us the loan, quoting a issue with the admin staff, left to a approval when there should not have been one.

Anyways now I have a budget of about 700tops, and I would like a ready built with all the power I can get.

This system would have to stand the rigors of Halo,Flight Simulator 2004, Some Half Life 2, and CounterStrike Source etc.

I would like a 6800gt or x850 in it and preferably a AMD FX processor or high end 64 processor.

I am checking out alot of sites and Have found some on Mesh Computers,Overclockers, Spoton Computers and Evesham plus some other sites.

I am wondering if any of you knowledgeable chaps/lass's know anywhere which offers good systems..


pictures will be took once it arrives as it WILL be being ordered first thing on Monday once cash is in the bank.

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wouldnt bother with the AMD FX if i were you. From what ive seen its hardly much better that the AMD 4000+ yet its going to cost you about £200 more

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Thanks for the tip Gary :D

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try http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/PCRanges.html some decent pc there

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Thanks some nice systems there would prefer 1gb of ram, but the one I could afford on Saturday would be the 3.2ghz one at the bottom of the page.

However my net is due to be cut off on Thursday as I am moving soon, so shall have to merge to using the old dog and bone to sort this out.

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If you fancy queuing up on Thursday, the Aldi Medion 8386 looks a well stuffed system for the price (£749)

Strong points: a P4 3.2GHz model 640 (that's the 2Mb cache version)
3 Year warranty.
Loaded! with 1024Mb RAM, 320Gb disk (2x 160), DVD writer & ROM, TV/DVB card and Worksuite 2005, all the bases are pretty well covered.
Weak points: Poor expandabilty, a small congested case and only two PCI (no PCI-X) slots free.
Motherboard: MSI special for Medion
Graphics: X740XL 128Mb (another special .. between X700 Pro and XT clock speeds).

Did some working out, and I couldn't build it for the price.

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Aldi's :| , had some fun with one of there pc's a while back when it blew a psu on first boot at a mates house.

Novatech have some good systems, but I aint into there choice of GPU, however OCUK www.overclockers.co.uk, has two systems one is a AMD Sempron 2800 with a 9700 ATI AGP card, with 512ddr ram at 400mhz.

They also have a Athlon64 3000 system with a 6600gt visual card this one is pci-E though with a Gigabyte socket 939 pci-E motherboard, this one comes in at top end of my budget.

But my concern with OCUK is there warranty what warranty do I get with there systems, also I would have to order it Saturday which is at best 4days AFTER my net goes *( due tommorow to go as moving house )* .

Anyone bought a OCUK full system? and how did they like it and hows there CS,?

Or should I get finance on a Alienware computer ( which they offer now ) and pay that one off.

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with a budget of 700 tops an fx and top gfx is out the question aim for a 3500 939 if you deside you could build buy the gigabyte 3d1 on overclockers or ebuyer this system rocks 350 board and gfx 120 for a gig of good ram kingston is fine though and a lot cheaper 170 for chip leaves enough for a hdd im sure you got optical and a case somewhere lol lol benchmarks on this system far and away exceed the cast of the componants just check this out http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/FileLis...050107_3d1.htm