About to buy a new machine
 

About to buy a new machine

The budget is around £1500, the machine will be used for games, photo and video editing and some adhoc development.

I'm not considering MESH ;)

I am considering Evesham based upon pash good experiences with them.

Currently looking at this

http://www.evesham.com/products/info...D-66CE7BD69506

views and opinions?

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

Very nice. Is RAM a little low though for that price ? I'd go for 2gig at that overall spec.

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That's a lot of money for a 4600+ processor with a gig of memory. Does it have a screen with it? (it shows one, but does not state one in the spec).

there's this spec for £1399 on cube247.com

• AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ DUAL CORE AM2
• 4096MB DDRII 667 Corsair Memory - The World's Premium Memory!
• 960GB Seagate Data Storage - RAID Stripe - Ultimate Performance!
• ASUS AM2 Deluxe Motherboard
• 16x DVD Player - Fastest DVD ROM Available!
• NEC DVD ReWriter AD-5170A 16x Dual Layer & Dual Format - The Best Drive In The World!
• ATI Radeon x1950 XT-X 512MB - What Dreams Are Made Of!
• Sony Floppy Drive
• Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Music Soundcard
• 12x USB2 Ports
• Firewire
• 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Adapter
• Midi Tower Case

or this from pcspecialist.co.uk for a grand
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index....erformance1000

or this
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index....pec=gaming1000

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

Im sobbing my heart out here £1600 quid on a box and its not even got a conroe in it arrrrghhhhhhhh

What I would build if it was for me

E6600
asus P5W DH deluxe
2 gig of ram
crossfire master card x1950 xtx
x1900xtx slave card
Big hard drives x 2
2 dvd rw
nice case
good psu
screen

there screwing you for about 400 quid profit on that build

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

Zing, what spec could you supply for that price?

ps the pcspecialist gaming 1k machine had a 6400 in it :-)

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

see above thats an estimate build but I would say that would be doable easy for that money

think I could build what i stated and easy include my profit for that

he could buy my tower for around 1200 ;) lol lol with a 22 inch screen for 1500 ;) for that money ill deliver it personally lol lol lol

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---------- Post added at 15:41 ---------- Previous post was at 15:39 ----------

also includes 3 yr warranty with 2 years on site which i have used in the past and the servide is good

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

yeah thats worth 400 quid lol lol if yoru unlucky 1 thing maybe 2 will fail in that time which would be cheaper to replace yourself.Anyway its upto you :)

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Now now easy tiger you don't wanna scare the punter away :) :D

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when you shop with Zingle you get Zingles level of support.Id wager thats worth more than the 400 quid ;)

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Think I've never seen anyone so dedicated - he's mental : I'd second that.

I dont know how it happened buy some guy leeched onto me ringing me up all the time about his PC I told him where to get off :)

I just cant do this kinda support grrrrrrrrrrr shudders at the thought

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

i didnt say it was worth £400, what im saying is to make a decision on what i buy i need to be able to compare apples with apples. I appreciate i could build the same box for less than evesham, but the "its not worth my time" factor comes into it

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

well ok level advice.Buy a machine built round a conroe not an amd :)

Re: About to buy a new machine
 

I was looking particularly at AMD, their intel offering for about the same price is here

http://www.evesham.com/products/info...8-3A20A81670B3

what i dont understand is why they go for the Nvidia graphics

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I'd agree with Zing on this one... Intel hare retaken the CPU crown from AMD with the C2D CPUs. I was a die-hard AMD fan until very recently, but I'm struggling to find a valid reason to not go for a C2D if you're spending that kinda money on a PC.