New pc required

[AndrewJ]

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.

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

[AndrewJ]

Thanks for the tip Gary

http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?skrivelse=362

[Florence]

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

[AndrewJ]

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.

[Matth]

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.

[AndrewJ]

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.

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