New Desktop PC (Help Wanted)

Hey, im gonna buy a new pc and i have about £400 to spend.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-270-OK

this is the best one ive found, my irl friend suggested this site to me and i was wondering if anyone knows of any better sites or has any advice as yeah i dont often buy pc's

 

Not really experienced with these, but I think you overpaying a bit :S

 

Really? i was comparing it to prices from like tesco, pcworld, curries etc and it seems to smash them all

 

Back few months i had some guy who I found in ebay, he had his site and sht, and you could get pretty much better than this at the ~400$ price. soo, still cheaper, but dunno.

 

thats in the usa, in the uk most things cost more :L and shipping a pc to the uk from the usa would cost a lot

 

I'm not positive on the exchange rate, but if I'm right and it's about 1.6 dollars per euro, you seem to be overpaying. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty decent PC but you'd probably save a ton of money by just buying the parts separately and building it yourself.

 

For gaming, you'll need a better gfx card. Also fuck those i3's. get an i5 650 if you want a dual core or an i7 880 if you want a quad. It's the same socket as the other one so you can just keep it in mind as a possible future upgrade.

 

i3 is noob man u can snag an amd 1100+ w/ 6 cores for that price

 

The bad thing with the PC that you are looking at, is that it does not come with an operating system. They will charge you around £66 for windows 7 premium, which is not a bad price, but should be default.

Also, it does not come with a graphics card by default, and they only give you one option for a graphics card.

I think that there are better deals out there, but you have to just take your time looking for them. Also, you could try building your own pc, it really isn't that hard and can turn out to be cheaper.

 

Quite honestly, the other people are right. If you're looking to get a PC you might want to consider building one yourself. You'd probably get double the efficiency/quality building it yourself.

It doesn't take a whole lot of PC experience to physically assemble it. But ordering parts you should definitely get help on.

The i3 is near useless my friend. It was noted that you should go with an i5 or an i7 and I 100% agree.

Basically what the guy above me said is accurate. The only thing I disagree about is the OS. Of course my reasons are of the illicit torrenty nature.

 

I would not suggest buying a desktop from a custom shop. If you have knowledge of building a PC, then that's the way to go for a fraction of the cost. As stated above, that computer is over priced. If you are stuck buying a pre-made, don't buy it from a custom shop.

 

dell or build it yourself, all I got to say =|

I know a guy who got a 'too good to be true' pc not but a couple weeks ago for dirt cheap, (ik yours is over priced, not dirt cheap, but still applies ( I guess ) ). however; after working down that the machines innate inability to power itself up was either a blown MP or something wrong with the cpu, I took the cpu out, all 479 jumpers where smashed, thank god they weren't broken. Took me ages and ages to correct all the jumper as they had to be specific and exact.

Not that you're likely to have severe hardware issues when you over-pay for your machine, but the applicable lesson is not to let yourself get ripped off in the end. Besides.. you could learn how to put together a computer in about an hour =P