[request] PC

eirebhoy

I'm looking for a new PC. I have 600-1000 to spend but the cheaper the better. At least 2.6Gz, 40GB harddrive, CD-RW, DVD drive + all the usuals. It must also have Windows XP and the likes of Microsoft Word, Works (the more software the better).

Cheers.

bennyx_o

Your best bet is to build your own or buy one from Dell.

ToxicPaddy

There boys arent too bad.. they do some good deals on the hardware as
long as your not looking for something too fancy..

A basic one at the moment is going for about €800 ex VAT which has pretty much
what your looking for:

2.8Ghz P4, 512MB RAM, DVD/CDRW, 80GB Hard Drive, Win XP..

I dont have anything to do with them before you ask, but if you arent building one
yourself then these might be worth checking out..

http://www.pcp.ie/


But as bennyx said, you can build a much higher spec one yourself for a lot less..



Tox

Philbert

Heres three PC's from Dell, all within your price range.(€540, €740 & €990) Includes delivery & VAT.

Not too bad if you ask me!

Crash

the best bet IMO for a decent system is buy a dell and upgrade the crap parts. dell make very good systems but are often let down by graphics card and a few others. so i'm just buying a dell and swapping in new hardware

bobk

There's some info on how much all the components will cost for a pc at the bottom of this thread


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151955

Bob

eirebhoy

Would you recommend downgrading to 1 Year Collect and Return Service and saving 149 euro?

jongore

It really depends on what you know about computers, most problems are down to software and if you feel comfortable reinstalling stuff that goes wrong go ahead and reduce the cover.

I'm on my third dell and I've never had any hardware problems, every now and then some software fails but it's easy to reinstall. So I've always picked the 1 year collect and return option

eirebhoy

Cheers jongore. When you are buying a PC would you pay the extra 100 for the Pentium 4 and whats the difference? What others would you upgrade?

BTW - They are giving a free Printer/Scanner/Copier if you order within the next 2 days.

damnyanks

The homepage is set to MSN.com and a while ago I saw that Dell America were offering free 2gb ram to any machine bought!! (Not april 1st btw ) You get a hard drive upgrade from .ie:rolleyes:

MisterAnarchy

I put this PC together the other day for a friend.
525 euro excl delivery from Ebuyer and a great machine for the price.
1 x Ebuyer VC171 17ins CRT
1 x Toshiba 4x DVD-R/RW IDE Burner
1 x Benq 16x50 IDE DVD-ROM Drive
1 x Creative SBS 250 Speakers
1 x 8cm Internal Case Cooling Fan
1 x Hightech ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB TV-Out DVI Retail Box
1 x Alps 1.44 Black Floppy Drive
1 x Western Digital Caviar 80Gb 7200rpm EIDE Hard Drive
1 x Ebuyer 56K V.90 Hardware Fax/Modem - Retail box
1 x Chic Wireless Intelligent Keyboard And Mouse Combo
1 x Ebuyer 256 DDR400 PC3200 Extra Value Ram
PcChips M848ALU SKT A SIS 748 400 DDR AGPx8 ATA133 6CH Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 Upto a 3.2+ CPU Motherboard in Retail Box 51760
1 x AMD Athlon XP2000 266FSB 256Cache Thoroughbred Retail Boxed Heatsink & Fan with 3year Warranty 46308
1 x JNC 8676 300W ATX Case With Side Window Front Firewire/Usb/Audio
Has there ever been a better time to buy a PC ?

oneweb

Originally posted by MisterAnarchy
I put this PC together the other day for a friend.
525 euro excl delivery from Ebuyer and a great machine for the price.
1 x Ebuyer VC171 17ins CRT
1 x Toshiba 4x DVD-R/RW IDE Burner
1 x Benq 16x50 IDE DVD-ROM Drive
1 x Creative SBS 250 Speakers
1 x 8cm Internal Case Cooling Fan
1 x Hightech ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB TV-Out DVI Retail Box
1 x Alps 1.44 Black Floppy Drive
1 x Western Digital Caviar 80Gb 7200rpm EIDE Hard Drive
1 x Ebuyer 56K V.90 Hardware Fax/Modem - Retail box
1 x Chic Wireless Intelligent Keyboard And Mouse Combo
1 x Ebuyer 256 DDR400 PC3200 Extra Value Ram
PcChips M848ALU SKT A SIS 748 400 DDR AGPx8 ATA133 6CH Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 Upto a 3.2+ CPU Motherboard in Retail Box 51760
1 x AMD Athlon XP2000 266FSB 256Cache Thoroughbred Retail Boxed Heatsink & Fan with 3year Warranty 46308
1 x JNC 8676 300W ATX Case With Side Window Front Firewire/Usb/Audio
Has there ever been a better time to buy a PC ?

Do ebuyer deliver to Ireland? 'Cos I can't register an Irish addy :dunno:

Sarsfield

Was there a licenced operating system with that machine?

Töpher

Originally posted by oneweb
Do ebuyer deliver to Ireland? 'Cos I can't register an Irish addy :dunno:

Me neither, and thats a pity cuz they seem pretty sweet price wise (provided they don't fist you with shipping charges!)

MisterAnarchy

Yes ,Ebuyer deliver to Ireland.
Put in Eire as the postcode and it should do it.
I have ordered a number of times from them.
Delivery is steep though ,around 50 euro.

KdjaCL

Go to Jaguar www.jagcompsystems.ie and buy a barebones P4 system and add in a few upgrades, deliver all over Ireland and COD also.

Could make a nice PC upgrade for 600 for about 800 could get a TFT also.




kdjac

Col_Loki

Not much of a fan of jaguar, would rather buy parts seperatly and build...... better quality products would be used. Watch as their prices are + Vat (21%), but are still very good.

The website is http://www.jaguarcompsys.ie/ btw.

www.elara.ie also will build systems for you and might be worth a look.

Agent Smith

Originally posted by MisterAnarchy
I put this PC together the other day for a friend.
525 euro excl delivery from Ebuyer and a great machine for the price.
1 x Ebuyer VC171 17ins CRT
1 x Toshiba 4x DVD-R/RW IDE Burner
1 x Benq 16x50 IDE DVD-ROM Drive
1 x Creative SBS 250 Speakers
1 x 8cm Internal Case Cooling Fan
1 x Hightech ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB TV-Out DVI Retail Box
1 x Alps 1.44 Black Floppy Drive
1 x Western Digital Caviar 80Gb 7200rpm EIDE Hard Drive
1 x Ebuyer 56K V.90 Hardware Fax/Modem - Retail box
1 x Chic Wireless Intelligent Keyboard And Mouse Combo
1 x Ebuyer 256 DDR400 PC3200 Extra Value Ram
PcChips M848ALU SKT A SIS 748 400 DDR AGPx8 ATA133 6CH Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 Upto a 3.2+ CPU Motherboard in Retail Box 51760
1 x AMD Athlon XP2000 266FSB 256Cache Thoroughbred Retail Boxed Heatsink & Fan with 3year Warranty 46308
1 x JNC 8676 300W ATX Case With Side Window Front Firewire/Usb/Audio
Has there ever been a better time to buy a PC ?

for that price thats a steal!