Opinions on a new set up please

[Russ]

I'm thinking of getting this set-up soon, with the Athlon XP 2600+, GeForce 4 and 512MB DDR Ram upgrade option. I'm not really interested in it's gaming potential as I have the XBOX for that, I'm just after a quality reliable set-up which I won't need to consider upgrading for at least a year.

Over to you guys

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Russ D

I'm thinking of getting this set-up soon, with the Athlon XP 2600+, GeForce 4 and 512MB DDR Ram upgrade option. I'm not really interested in it's gaming potential as I have the XBOX for that, I'm just after a quality reliable set-up which I won't need to consider upgrading for at least a year.

Over to you guys

Depends what GF4 card you're getting Russ-don't get an MX.

Other tahnk that, it looks ok.

[Ramrod]

Are you sure that you want a printer and a webcam that come bundled with the pc?

[Russ]

Depends what GF4 card you're getting Russ-don't get an MX

I'm not all that bothered by the Graphics card to be honest, as long as it does an above average job.

edit - although saying that, look at the upgrade page here - you see the MX lurking....

Are you sure that you want a printer and a webcam that come bundled with the pc?

I don't really have a choice, it comes with the package and it's no cheaper without them. I could always sell them I spose.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Russ D

I don't really have a choice, it comes with the package and it's no cheaper without them. I could always sell them I spose.

I always find that there is usually a better package at the same price without extras like that.
ie. they are usually charging you for the extras.

[Ramrod]

How about this one from Mesh

[martinell]

not bad at all, but the video upgrade seems a bit steep.To stick the ti4200 in is an extra £159!!! woosers. i paid £69 3 months ago for the same card at bowlers

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by martinell

not bad at all, but the video upgrade seems a bit steep.To stick the ti4200 in is an extra £159!!! woosers. i paid £69 3 months ago for the same card at bowlers

....and I sold my old T1 4600 for £40 to someone here 2 months ago

Originally Posted by Ramrod

I always find that there is usually a better package at the same price without extras like that.
ie. they are usually charging you for the extras.

if Russ wanted to stick with that supplier, I would go for the G-Value Pro - take the Pentium4 2.6 option and have enough left over for the Ti graphics upgrade.

The Mesh one you posted looked good, Ramrod, only thing I didn't like was the DVD/CD/RW 'combo' drive, 'cos I've heard of people having problems with them?

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by homealone

The Mesh one you posted looked good, Ramrod, only thing I didn't like was the DVD/CD/RW 'combo' drive, 'cos I've heard of people having problems with them?

That may be, I wouldn't know.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by homealone

if Russ wanted to stick with that supplier, I would go for the G-Value Pro - take the Pentium4 2.6 option and have enough left over for the Ti graphics upgrade.

Yeah but it's a Pentium - give me Athlon any day. Plus there's no monitor in that deal and only 256K RAM.

That deal from Mesh looks pretty good actually but I'm a little concerned at the amount of memory - it would take a LOT of persuading to get me to settle for less than 512K.

[SMHarman]

Decide on your spec and email it to this guy for a quote. Did me a fantastic tower.

http://www.selectcomputers.co.uk/

AMD 2400, 1Gb Ram, 2x SATA 80GB HDD in Raid0, ATI Radeon 9000, Firewire, CD, DVD. Very Happy with the results.

You could also take a look at his ebay auctions.