£400 - £500 Decent PC

[Jahova]

We are short of money and my £700 PC plans have gone down the drain unfortunatley, now I have a top budget of £500 for a PC.

I wanted quad core and decent ram as I usually have alot of windows open and memory eating applications such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver but I'm unsure on if I'll be able to get it.

I need a monitor and accessories with the PC, and I have no experience of building my own PC, but I could if there was a decent guide. (Probably not for me).

So if you could find me whole packadges with decent specs for £500 or less, or just recommend parts, then that would be great.

~ T.

[Agnostic Bear]

We are short of money and my £700 PC plans have gone down the drain unfortunatley, now I have a top budget of £500 for a PC.

I wanted quad core and decent ram as I usually have alot of windows open and memory eating applications such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver but I'm unsure on if I'll be able to get it.

I need a monitor and accessories with the PC, and I have no experience of building my own PC, but I could if there was a decent guide. (Probably not for me).

So if you could find me whole packadges with decent specs for £500 or less, or just recommend parts, then that would be great.

~ T.

Absolutely:
http://imgho.st/img/q9j_sadasd.jpg

You will need to go to the links yourself, just use the quick codes on ebuyer.

Unfortunately no monitor, you'll have to try and find something.

[Jordy]

I'm going to get flamed for posting a full desktop PC but anyway :P

This has everything you want and it's a pretty good deal too.

http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTVIEWPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=448462

Bare in mind this has an OS and monitor (keyboard and mouse too) unlike the custom-build above.

[scottish]

Absolutely:

You will need to go to the links yourself, just use the quick codes on ebuyer.

Unfortunately no monitor, you'll have to try and find something.

he said monitors to be in budget :P and ugly case / crap psu.

You could just stick with a Dell Inspiron 530 or something,

[Jahova]

Thanks all, +REP.
I was thinking about a Mesh, I have one downstairs and it has lasted 7 years without failure, only had to replace the fan once!

[scottish]

SEVEN YEARS!? holy crap i get a new comp atleast twice a year :||||||| how can you live with same one for 7 year? :P

[Jahova]

SEVEN YEARS!? holy crap i get a new comp atleast twice a year :||||||| how can you live with same one for 7 year? :P
Thats what I am thinking. It was mine for 4 years and then I got my laptop, which only has 512mb ram, but it has been loyal to me.

[scottish]

mm, i got laptop at summer, then a desktop end of october.

[Wig44.]

SEVEN YEARS!? holy crap i get a new comp atleast twice a year :||||||| how can you live with same one for 7 year? :P

*REMOVED*

And if anyone doesn't get this, read the thread in Teen life. Pretty disturbed person imo.

Edited by Yoshimitsui (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not insult other forum members.

[scottish]

You need to replace yours twice a year because
A: You are on it 24/7
B: All that child porn broke your computer

And if anyone doesn't get this, read the thread in Teen life. Pretty disturbed person imo.

stick it in your sig or something, saves wasting my time reading your crap posts, please stay on topic aswell.

[:job2]

Build a dell PC, you could get a good one for that, get a screen from ebuyer though, Dell screens are expensive

[Flisker]

My 17" widescreen monitor from dell was only 90 pounds.

[Agnostic Bear]

he said monitors to be in budget :P and ugly case / crap psu.

You could just stick with a Dell Inspiron 530 or something,

The PSU is fine.

[scottish]

:rolleyes:

[Firehorse]

I got my custom setup january 2008 from dell, vista, 4gigs ram, 19" widescreen, core 2 duo 2.33ghz processor, 500GB hdd and also a geforce 8500GT graphics card which i bought seperately for £25. It ended up at about £535 and i'm sure it will be a lot cheaper now. Handles big programs with ease and also gaming is nothing short of good. the card can be overclocked to 600mhz easily without needing more cooling and it has only ever broken down once when the hard drive failed.
It gets a rating of 5.2 (the lowest is the processor) and once i got 5.3 from it when i pushed it a bit further.

Recommended.

[Jord]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/737738
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[Firehorse]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/737738
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I wouldn't go with hp cos they are a pain in the backside. They don't send you the os disk so rebooting is a pain in the ass, eventually the computer freezes randomly and since Tom is looking to keep this computer for a while i'm sure its not a good choice.

[Jahova]

I'm probably going to buy 2 of the Mesh's. One for me and one for downstairs.

[Agnostic Bear]

:rolleyes:

Why isn't it good? Do you think he needs a 1200 WATT PURE POWER MILLION RAILS PSU?

[scottish]

No he needs a non-budget PSU that won't blow every component if it dies.

I know for sure if my PSU died, i'd rather it take itself (say £70) rather than about 800 quid of stuff.

So its basically a case of spend 30 quid more, save 800 quid, spend 0 more waste 800 quid. I know my choice.

[Hitman]

Dunno if this has been posted, but this is the PC I just bought. It's quad core and has 4GB of RAM. It's very fast. Nice big HDD, comes with a nice 20" screen.

Intel® Core 2 Quad Q8200 processor
2.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB Cache
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
4GB DDR2 667MHz memory
640GB SATA hard drive (7200rpm)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/737738

£489.34 including VAT.

EDIT: It has been posted... somebody said don't get HP when quoting the link to the Packard Bell... as far as I know HP isn't Packard Bell. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Describe]

I'm going to get flamed for posting a full desktop PC but anyway :P

This has everything you want and it's a pretty good deal too.

http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTVIEWPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=448462

Bare in mind this has an OS and monitor (keyboard and mouse too) unlike the custom-build above.

I second this one, nice one Jordy. :8

[scottish]

Packard Bell is a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Acer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Inc.).

[Hitman]

Packard Bell is a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Acer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Inc.).So it's not HP... thought so.

[scottish]

Well unless HP owns Acer, which it doesn't so, no its not :P

[Jahova]

Thanks guys, thread is now closed for posting.
Well, in my books it is :D

[Robbie]

So have you decided what to go for then?