Looking to buy a pre-built gaming system online

Jonnie_Onion

Can anyone recommend a retailer?

At the moment I'm considering aria.co.uk. I know some people will tell me to build myself, but I've had trouble in the past so I'm just going for peace of mind.

petes

Alienware? Dell XPS?

http://www.alienware.com/
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_700?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs

How much are you willing to spend?

EWheelChair

Either of those options are good, once you have the money

Jonnie_Onion

Alienware would probably be too expensive. Didn't consider dell though. Aren't they notoriously difficult to upgrade?

I'll be spending around 1700. I'm looking to get an AM2 system, although Dell would have first dibs on the new Conroes.

EWheelChair

Dells aren't great for upgrading, but if you're willing to do some upgrading.. why not build the pc yourself?

You'd get more for your 1700

bubonicus

EWheelChair wrote:

Dells aren't great for upgrading, but if you're willing to do some upgrading.. why not build the pc yourself?

You'd get more for your 1700

http://www.overclockers.co.uk

SouperComputer

http://www.ankermann-pc.co.uk/

BadCharlie

http://www.komplett.ie/k/cl.asp?bn=10627

delly

Keep an eye on the Dell outlet and you might get a bargain, although they won't have any dualcore, so it depends on how much you want to spend. Currently they have the following for €770 inc VAT, PC only.

Dimension 5150 Pentium 4 HT 3.40GHz
Memory: 1024MB DDR2 533 [2*512]
Hard Disk Drive: 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
Video: 256MB nVidia GeForce 7300LE TurboCache graphics card
Modem: V.92 Modem Data/Fax/Voice PCI UK
DVD Drive: 16X IDE DVD ROM + 16 X DVD +/- RW

Jonnie_Onion

Thanks for those links. As I said, I'm not looking to build myself.

PogMoThoin

Pls dont go down the Dell road. They cannot be upgraded & have very poor airflow. They use cheaper components and have a psu that cannot be upgraded. I know its the easy option but you'll end up buying a full new pc in 2 yrs.
Have all the parts here for my conroe rig for UK£1150. I have the gfx card but i bought a soundcard which you could do without at the start. Just waitin on conroe before i build. Build yourself is my advise. E1500 would build you a serious rig which would have good specs and would be fully upgradable. Your own build would also look cooler than a boring Dell buy.

delly

PogMoThoin wrote:

Pls dont go down the Dell road. They cannot be upgraded & have very poor airflow. They use cheaper components and have a psu that cannot be upgraded. I know its the easy option but you'll end up buying a full new pc in 2 yrs.
Have all the parts here for my conroe rig for UK£1150. I have the gfx card but i bought a soundcard which you could do without at the start. Just waitin on conroe before i build. Build yourself is my advise. E1500 would build you a serious rig which would have good specs and would be fully upgradable. Your own build would also look cooler than a boring Dell buy.

I'll go the other way and recommend them as I got a great deal. Don't rule anything out until you see what they have to offer.
My purchase from over a year ago:

Dimension 8400, Pentium 4 HT, 3.6GHz, MiniTower
Operating System: English - Win XP SP2 Home
2048MB PC-4200 DUAL CHANNEL (2X1024mb)
1.44MB Floppy Drive
500 (2x250mb) Serial ATA Hard Drive
V.92 Data Fax Modem
Creative Labs SoundBlaster® Audigy™ 2 Sound Card
CD/DVD RW Drive + DVD Drive
256MB Nvidia 6800gto
Dell 2 Button PS/2 Scroll Mouse
Dell 2.1 speakers
Dell Ultrasharp 17" Flatpanel 12ms
2 Year Warrenty

All for €1,330 inc VAT + delivery

PogMoThoin

Disagree.....You also get cheap samsung ram from dell. Bios is locked so you cannot oc. Poor cooling, cheap psu, single core processor........Look what i'm gettin 4 UK1150
Processor:....Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz 1066Fsb
Mobo:.........DFI Infinity Socket975x PCI-E DDR2
Cooler:.......Zalman CNPS59500 Led Cpu Cooler
Ram:..........OCZ PC5400 Gold GX XTC Dual Channel (2x1Gb)
Hdd:..........2x Seagate Barracuda 120Gb SATA2 Raid 0
PSU:..........OCZ GameXStream 600w SLI ATX2.0 PSU
Case:.........Thermaltake VA8000SWA Armour Aluminium Super Tower Silver
Soundcard:....Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty
Also Dvd-Rom, Dvd-Rw & Floppy
Windows XP Pro

Already have mouse, Kb, monitor, printer & 7900gt.

6800 gto you mention is fully powered from pci-e slot ie. no sli connector.....exclusively to dell. Ok You get a 2 yr warranty, Thats ok if ya fancy talkin waitin for hours 2 talk to yer man in India.

What i have coming will oc like fcuk & fully upgradable. Will oc to nearly 4Ghz on each core.

Jonnie_Onion

That's a great system for that price. Unfortunately I've been burned before building myself, and it ended up being a costly venture altogether. For this amount of money I will buy pre-built. I see Dell haven't changed their ways so I will avoid them. Won't be buying immediately anyway as I'm waiting to see if these AMD price cuts will come about.

PogMoThoin

I'm sure lots of people would offer to build it for ya for a fee. I would just 2 keep me occupied, its my hobby.

quad_red

SouperComputer wrote:

http://www.ankermann-pc.co.uk/

Holy crap! They seem amazing value.

Have you ordered off them souper? Can't see what delivery to Ireland is - I presume they do.

Diddy Kong

As said above, you could try Komplett and OverClockers.co.uk, they both do pre-built systems..

SouperComputer

quad_red wrote:

Holy crap! They seem amazing value.

Have you ordered off them souper? Can't see what delivery to Ireland is - I presume they do.

I havent used them yet, but ive heard many great opinions on them. Checkout the G5-Style cases, a €7.90 updrade!

this is the original site IIRC: http://www.ankermann-pc.com/en/

They ship to Ireland its €25 I think, and they sell on ebay