Advice needed for new pc

mdwexford

Hi folks,

Just wondered if any of you could give me your opinions on either of the builds in this thread, thanks a lot

white_falcon

neither of those links bring anything up...

Macspower

link only work for you MD....

Try taking a screenshot and posting it instead?

mdwexford

Apologies lads, im a noob at this





btw heres what i want it for

Im looking to spend just under a grand on a new pc, i need it mainly for online poker, 14 tables at once (not sure how much resources that takes), a big itunes library, dvd backups, avi to dvd converts and stuff like that. I dont play games at all. Just wondering should i go to somewhere like hardwareversand or komplett and get them to build as good a pc as i can afford or should i just to dell and get a standard pc. Will i get something much better for the same price if i go to the aforementioned companies??? I want something pretty fast and that wont be completly ancient by christmas preferably.

And heres what im wondering about these builds

Which one is better??
Is there anywhere i should be spending more or less??
Is there anything im forgetting??

Will these be able run a 22" 1920x1200 monitor??

Thanks

Macspower

sorry only checked in now MD....

I would deffo buy intel rather then AMD... and better graphics card would be nice although not esential...

msn me on zousers@hotmail.com and i'll discuss it with you..

Mac

mdwexford

No worries Macs, cheers for the reply.

Ive added you on msn anyway.

AlmightyCushion

You mean a 24" monitor, right? I don't think there are any 22" monitors running a 1920x1200.

mdwexford

Yeah sorry, a dell 2407 or 248 probably, im still deciding.

Slutmonkey57b

mdwexford wrote: »

Apologies lads, im a noob at this

btw heres what i want it for

Im looking to spend just under a grand on a new pc, i need it mainly for online poker, 14 tables at once (not sure how much resources that takes), a big itunes library, dvd backups, avi to dvd converts and stuff like that. I dont play games at all. Just wondering should i go to somewhere like hardwareversand or komplett and get them to build as good a pc as i can afford or should i just to dell and get a standard pc. Will i get something much better for the same price if i go to the aforementioned companies??? I want something pretty fast and that wont be completly ancient by christmas preferably.

And heres what im wondering about these builds

Which one is better??
Is there anywhere i should be spending more or less??
Is there anything im forgetting??

Will these be able run a 22" 1920x1200 monitor??

Thanks

1)You're not gaming so you don't need that huge PSU. Get a 350w one.
2)Why bother with a blu-ray drive? The media (if you're planning on backing up) is horrendously expensive and you won't see much of a visual benefit to HDTV on a 24" monitor. Get a DVD-RW like on the Komplett build and buy Blu when the price drops for drives AND media (if it ever does).
You've just saved yourself ~€150.
Use the money to buy a P35 motherboard (the Abit IP35-E)
and a Core2Quad
and upgrade that graphics card to something that won't collapse when running a bigger monitor. a 3650 card will give you twice the performance for about the same money.

A Core2Quad will be far more use to you for media encoding. It'll cut your encoding times by up to a quarter.

For the expert view on whether you need to upgrade for online poker, Option #4 in the following article is for you.
http://www.ninjapirate.com/newcomputer.html

conzy

Just get a Dell, If you arent gaming it will work out cheaper and its a lot less hassle

Sqaull20

conzymaher wrote: »

Just get a Dell, If you arent gaming it will work out cheaper and its a lot less hassle

I tend to agree, a decentish pc will do fine, and dell are very very cheap in that department, the vostro range are very nice, I had one...

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E4500 Processor (2.20GHz,800MHz,2MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English
1Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day Included - No Upgrade Selected
No 19" Wide Monitor
3072MB 667MHz (2x1024 + 2x512) Memory
500GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache
128MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 2400 Pro graphics card
16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Dell™ Entry Quietkey USB Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Optical Mouse

€ 409.69 including delivery...

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=ie&cs=iebsdt1&kc=D4X20003&l=en&m_30=138820&oc=D022012&rbc=D022012&s=bsd

E Value

305-D022012

mdwexford

So you guys think i should go for something like this Dell over this hardwareversand?? I would be buying the monitor for about 350-400 quid either way so the Dell works out at 1,003 euros total and the other at 889 euros with no monitor. Thanks in advance

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