£400 - £500 Decent PC

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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 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.