About to buy a new machine

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

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?

[skyblueheroes]

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

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

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

Zing, what spec could you supply for that price?

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

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

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Does it have a screen with it? (it shows one, but does not state one in the spec).

Evesham 20.1'' V20KCDX-E03 LCD TV

---------- 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

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

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

for that money ill deliver it personally lol lol lol

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

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

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

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

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

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

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

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

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

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

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

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

[Gareth]

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.