Please help!

Jess11

My husband and my self spend a lot of time on PC. He reads papers and plays Facebook games. I surf the net, use email, play Facebook games and use it for photos, videos and listening to podcasts. Our son uses it occasionally for Fifa and Football Manager.
There are a fewfew walls between where PC will be and the UPC modem. At the moment WiFi is good on my smart phone there, but weak on my PC, so we use Power line plugs which work OK.
What should I look out for when buying new PC?
Understand PC specs and technology fairly well, not not confident buying new PC that I'm hoping will be good for 5/6 years.
Should I buy a PC in somewhere like PC World or would I be better getting one made to measure? Where?
Was looking at Chillblast Fusion Obelisk. Its 700 sterling. Would it be way over the top for what I need? Love my computer and would love a really good one( i5 maybe?). I can spend up to €1000. Looking forward to replies.

mordeith

Jess11 wrote: »

My husband and my self spend a lot of time on PC. He reads papers and plays Facebook games. I surf the net, use email, play Facebook games and use it for photos, videos and listening to podcasts. Our son uses it occasionally for Fifa and Football Manager.
There are a fewfew walls between where PC will be and the UPC modem. At the moment WiFi is good on my smart phone there, but weak on my PC, so we use Power line plugs which work OK.
What should I look out for when buying new PC?
Understand PC specs and technology fairly well, not not confident buying new PC that I'm hoping will be good for 5/6 years.
Should I buy a PC in somewhere like PC World or would I be better getting one made to measure? Where?
Was looking at Chillblast Fusion Obelisk. Its 700 sterling. Would it be way over the top for what I need? Love my computer and would love a really good one( i5 maybe?). I can spend up to €1000. Looking forward to replies.

Spending 1,000 on a desktop for your current usage would be mad imo. If you wanted to spend that you'd get a very decent laptop which would help with the WiFi reception issues.

Will91w

€1000 would certainly get you a Pc that's going to be built to last for 5/6 years, but like mordeith mentioned, you would be mad spending that much money on a Desktop/laptop these days.

I was looking to buy myself a new desktop recently and came across very affordable ones on ebay which are built for gaming and come in at around 350-500 for the most expensive one. Most of them have great specs

1tb hardrive
Dual layer dvd drive
intel i5
6-8-12-16 gigs of ram
top end gpu's

The only downside is that maybe one out of all of the specs would not be that good but you could always upgrade it yourself?

You could also buy a pretty decent laptop for that price. My last laptop was a SATELLITE S70-A-11H. It cost roughly around 700 and it was an extremely high end laptop and still is to this day.

specs are:
Windows 8.1 64-bit (pre-installed)
4th generation Intel® Core™ i5-4200M processor with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
43.9cm (17.3”) , Toshiba TruBrite® HD+ TFT High Brightness display with 16 : 9 aspect ratio and LED backlighting
Hard disk 1 TB
Ice blue brushed aluminium finish, black keyboard
8,192 (4,096 + 4,096) MB, DDR3L RAM (1,600 MHz)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 740M with CUDA™ Technology and NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology
maximum life : up to 4h00min (Mobile Mark™ 2012)

I was able to play any game i threw at it, including fifa and football manager. The wifi was great and it was a super fast laptop. I also used to connect it to my tv via the hdmi port on the laptop and it worked very well.

riclad

GO into router settings wifi ,change the channel,
wifi-channel, say 7 to 10,
you might be getting interference from your neighbours wifi,
since everyone tends to use the same channel.
try 2 or 3 other channels,fot 5 minutes.
see if the signal improves .
it gave me 25 per cent increase in signal quality,
in room about 23 ft from the wifi router.
you could buy a pc wifi usb unit,2inches long.
cost 10 euro.