Pinky needs a hand choosing a PC - EFD comp

[PINKY]

I need all you PC experts help....

I am getting a new PC – and I am buying it tonight (in about 5-6 hours from this post) via the internet.

As I am a total idiot when it comes to computers, I want you guys to help me find the best deal.

The person who finds the best value for money PC gets all my EFD (I don’t have any in bank, so what you see is what you get)

I am after the most power I can get for £500 (so UK sites only)

The price must include delivery and monitor, keyboard, mouse etc.

Other than the operating system, no software is needed.

I possibly may want to log into Entropia in the future so it will need to be capable of that.

I don’t need a printer

If it’s Pink, it’s a bonus!

The highest spec for £500 wins

[Brass]

Unfortunatlly not in pink, but for £488.99, it's pretty good.

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
Windows Vista Home Premium
20" Black Wide Flat Panel Monitor
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 Memory
320GB SATA Hard Drive
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 graphics card
16 X DVD RW

Dell Dimension C521

If you could stretch up to £700 you can get a far superior machine

[dragonfred]

Here you go. My entry.

Off eBay. Only problem is you would have to install an OS (sold separately) and not pink:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUAL-CORE-4800...QQcmdZViewItem

Couple of UK white box builders, they seam to have decent specs and you can customize (although no pink):
http://www.arbico.co.uk/
http://www.boltonpc.co.uk/

Dell. This is where my company orders from:
http://www.dell.co.uk/

The other option is to call your local small computer shop. I'd assume you have one there somewhere (I'm from the USA). They could make you one in pink

[NotVF]

Originally Posted by Brass

Unfortunatlly not in pink, but for £488.99, it's pretty good.

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
Windows Vista Home Premium
20" Black Wide Flat Panel Monitor
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 Memory
320GB SATA Hard Drive
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 graphics card
16 X DVD RW

Dell Dimension C521

If you could stretch up to £700 you can get a far superior machine

DELL has been my recent PC of choice. Not that I bought a DELL, but if I'd go and buy a machine right now, it'd prolly end up being a DELL.

(typing this on an HP, but only because my former company offered those cheap. DELL seems to have excellent choice for your bucks).

[safara]

Hiya Pinky,

I have used these guys a lot - www.novatech.co.uk - their prices always seem to be keen and I have never had a problem with delivery etc.

Have a look at their Isys 935 systems.

- www.novatech.co.uk - click on products/System Solutions/PC Systems
- Choose the Isys 900 range (View this range)
- Choose the second PC configuration they have there (select this system)
- Add Vista and their 17" TFT Monitor
- Click add to system Basket
You will see that we have a price of £500.72 incl Delivery and VAT, sorry, 72p over your budget...

Main Specs

Processor
Intel Pentium D 935 3.0GHz Dual Core 2MB Cache Processor
Memory
2048MB 533MHz DDR2 Ram
Hard Drive
250GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive
Graphics
nVidia 7600GS 256MB PCI-E Graphics
Sound
5.1 High Definition Audio
Optical Drive
16x Dual Layer +R/-R/RW DVD burner

Not a bad price for 2GB Ram, Dual Core and 256 PCI Graphics.

have a click around and Good Luck

Edit - the Dell looks good as well

[PINKY]

Thanks for the ones so far - just to confirm, real companies only, ebay ones dont count! lol

about 3 hours and counting!

[KP708]

Not a full "here is the one to buy" response, but a friend of mine just bought one for under £500 from Comet, so that may be worth a look. I think they sell online. Beyond that you're on your own, but there you go for what it's worth

[Napolleon]

two choices depending on taxes:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/156555 says 599 but u get 100 rebate when order it online or w/e that deal is no clue what VAT is ><

or this one which is 469
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/187222

both are good first one best of course gotta love that core 2 duo

[PINKY]

Originally Posted by safara

Hiya Pinky,

Intel Pentium D 935 3.0GHz Dual Core 2MB Cache Processor
2048MB 533MHz DDR2 Ram
250GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive
nVidia 7600GS 256MB PCI-E Graphics
17" Monitor
5.1 High Definition Audio
16x Dual Layer +R/-R/RW DVD burner

Hi ya Spike This is looking good...

Originally Posted by Brass

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
Windows Vista Home Premium
20" Black Wide Flat Panel Monitor
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 Memory
320GB SATA Hard Drive
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 graphics card
16 X DVD RW

and so is this one - can anyone tell me the difference between the processors.. is one faster than the other?

I think the second is slightly better due to the 20" monitor and HD size.

Any comments?


Appreciate everyones help so far!!!

[Luu]

Originally Posted by Brass

Unfortunatlly not in pink, but for £488.99, it's pretty good.

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
Windows Vista Home Premium
20" Black Wide Flat Panel Monitor
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 Memory
320GB SATA Hard Drive
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 graphics card
16 X DVD RW

Dell Dimension C521

If you could stretch up to £700 you can get a far superior machine

I Just thought that i would add is that i have a Acer Laptop Aspire 5602 WLMI and the graphics card in this is ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 up to 512Mb HyperMemory, this is what it says on the Spec sticker anyway, I'm not sure if its relevant or not this being ATI Mobility but when playing EU on my laptop I get screen tearing, well I think that is what its called, i am not sure what it is,basically when i move you see the screen refreshing the game its hard to explain but i guess if you wanted to see what i mean then could try and video it when i play EU on my laptop. Sometimes it runs fine and others it doesn't.