€1,500 To spend , On What ?

jonski

Right , mate has €1500 to spend on a desk top and he wants to buy new and pre built .

Seen as how I buy second hand here and build it myself I really haven't a clue beyond Dell . Any that he has asked me about I say , " yeah , it has this this and this but it is missing that ", ( 'that' usually being a graphics card of any note ) .

So , does anyone have any ideas ?

Uses of said pc would be , home/office , with games thrown in . Doesn't need printer scanner type thingy as he already has these .Yeah , i know I am setting ye a tough task , but I have every faith in ye .

John

plonk

What do you think of this
NorthQ 4001BX, ATX 400W, 120mm Blue LED
Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PRO DDR 1024MB
Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse,
Norman IC, 1 year license Virus Control
PC box
SoftThinks Installation/Recovery
Gigabyte 6600GT Silent Pipe, 256MB DDR3
Gigabyte GZ-FSCA1-AN Silver
Videoseven 17" LCD E17PS Monitor,
Sony Floppy Drive, 3,5" 1,44MB Silver
ABIT KN8-SLI,nForce4 SLI, Socket-939,
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz Socket 939,
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB SATA2
Saitek PZ08A Gamers Keyboard Backlit UK
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x,

jonski

plonk wrote:

What do you think of this

Where is it and how much is it ?

chump

why not go dell,
I got a 9100 system a few months back and it's been flawless - and my last 3 mahcines were home-made

Base Intel® Viiv™ technology -Intel® Pentium® D 930 Dual Core(3.00GHz,800MHz,2x2MB)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Memory 1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz (2x512) Memory
Keyboard Dell Entry Quietkey USB Keyboard - UK/Ire (QWERTY)
Monitor Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor
Video Card 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800 (DVI/VGA/TV-out)
Hard Drive 320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]
Floppy Drives Internal 13-in-1 Media Card Reader
Mouse Dell USB 2 Button Wheel Mouse
Modem V.92 Data Fax Modem
CD/DVD Drives 16x DVD+/-RW & 16x DVD Drives
Sound Cards Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music card,PCI w/Dolby Digital,7.1 speaker surround and THX certification
Speakers Dell A525 Speakers with Subwoofer
Standard Warranty 1-Year Collect and Return service
Cover It with Dell Support Services 1-Year Collect and Return service


that's 1,563.55 all in, code d-D01917, and then subtract a few items


I got something similar a few months ago for less than 1000 when dell made a mistake tho!

or go for the komplett.ie option for 1182

Chassis Antec Performance One P180 Miditower, Silver Aluminum (Without PSU)
Power Supplies NorthQ 4001BX, ATX 400W, 120mm Blue LED Fan, 12-17dBA, 4xSATA, PCI-E, 20/24pin
Mainboards ABIT AL8-V, Intel 945P, Socket-775, ATX, SATAII, Dual-DDR2, GbLAN, PCI-Ex16
Processors Intel Pentium 4 630 3.0GHz Socket LGA775, 2MB, BOXED w/fan
DDR2 memory Corsair Value S. PC4200 DDR2 512MB Kit w/two matched Value Select 256MB
Graphics Cards XFX GeForce 6200 TurboCache, PCI-Express,supports 256MB, Tv-Out/DVI
Hard Drives Samsung SpinPoint P120S 200GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM
Floppy Sony Floppy Drive, 3,5" 1,44MB Black Floppy Drive Internal
Optical Drives NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x, Dual, Black OEM
Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 Software English OEM
Mice Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse, USB, PS/2
Keyboards Logitech Media Keyboard Elite PS/2/USB
Monitors Videoseven 17" LCD E17PS Monitor, Silver, 8ms

and add a nice monitor

plonk

Heres a link now
http://www.komplett.ie/k/config.asp?ConfigSystemId=10137&Config.AllOptions=X
Now you can customise it to your needs
post what you choose you can go intel if you want aswell

K.O.Kiki

Whatever you do, don't get a NorthQ PSU!!

Also, AMD better for games, Intel better for video encoding. Something to keep in mind.

And GeForce 6200TC BLOWS!!

jonski

Any other suggestions so that I have a few options to pass on .

turbot

I'd say:

Go Dell, buy from the factory outlet, get at least 1gb of ram.... and probably a dimesnion system.

You should be able to get a decent pc, with a 2005 20inch widescreen flatpanel monitor, from the factory outlet, for < €1500 inc VAT & Delivery. You could probably save €500 off the list price... and the list price would be a good one by itself.

For example, at €1457 inc VAT / Delivery / 3 year onsite warranty:

Dell Dimension 9150
Pentium D 830 - DualCore 3Ghz
Operating System: Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
Memory: 1024MB DDR2 400 [2*512]
Hard Disk Drive: 160GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
Video: ATI Radeon X600 256MB HyperMemory
Modem: V.92 Modem Data/Fax/Voice PCI UK
DVD Drive: 16 X DVD +/- RW
Software: English - Adobe Reader 6.0
Microsoft® Works® 7.0
Image Restore Utility
Dell Media Experience 3.0
Dell Support 3.0
MISC: Dell Enhanced USB Multimedia Kybd
Dell 2 Button USB Scroll Entry Mouse
English - Doc with UK Power Cord
Paint Shop Picture Studio 1.01 - trial version
Photo Shop Photo Album (5.22) - trial version

with a 2005 FPW FlatPanel, widescreen monitor.

Thats a good deal, a great monitor and a sensible buy.