Made to order PCS

Overlord

Lads does anyone know an Irish company that can make up a pc to order.
Thats a certain motherboard and a certain graphics card and a certain monitor etc. all put together for you.
I want to spend money on a good pc but theres some specific stuff i want in it and for the life of me I just cant buy a dell or a gateway knowing i can get 30%+ more from a clockable machine shur its scandalaous

Or perhaps a company that sells a broad range of pc stuff so i can buy the stuff meself and make it up instead. Those UK places are just not worth the exchange rate atm.
So can anyone help ?

[This message has been edited by Overlord (edited 23-03-2000).]

SHADOW

I know a guy who does custom builds....
Very good value for money too.
He'll put in whatever ya like!!!!
Give us a shout if you want more info.
Nomegas@ireland.com

N

dollar

Try http://www.linux.ie/hardwarevendors.html for a list of hardware vendors in Ireland who come with a thumb's up from all the folks on the ILUG Mailing list.

D.

Gamblor

I build PC's to order ....
you can mail me and with the spec and i can get a price for ya ...
For a ref. you could ask WWman .. but he's in london for the weekend !!!

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MiCr0

whats u're mail address?

tHE vAGGABOND

www.overclockers.co.uk

very reliable and the best in the business

Gamblor

Just mail jamesduffy@esatclear.ie

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Gerry

Myself and sutty also build systems. P3's mainly. Overclockable or pre - overclocked if you wish. Mail me at leixlipcomputers@hotmail.com with spec and I'll give a u a price

MiCr0

have a look at these ppl
Evesham
they have a dublin office
make's a change from dell/gway

[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 25-03-2000).]

Gamblor

MIcro ... i chaecked thoses dudes out ...
not bad .. plus they have a model called GeForce .. so they win !!!!

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Gerry

gamblor, I'll beat their price.

MiCr0

gerry i'll have there quotes tomorrow
they sent me a brochure with sterling prices ffs
i'll post them when i get them.

BTW
the spec is
piii 600 or athlon 600/700
128mb
20gb 7200rpm
32mb geforce 256
17" monitor
8x DVD
56k modem
100mb zip drive
SoundBlaster PCI 128
& speakers

[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 26-03-2000).]

Lump

Pc-Pro in cork build custom PC's However they are trade only, There's a shop in Kanturk that deals with them.

John

Gerry

Right micro about £1600. That includes a ddr geforce and a hardware decoder for the dvd because I dont a have a price just now for a drive on its own. I dont think Evesham are specifying you a ddr geforce so just check so we can compare like with like here. It also has the p3 600 which I feel is better. I could run this at 800 for you if you liked also.

MiCr0

piii from evesham
128mb
geforce sdr
etc....
1301+21%=1574.21

athlon600
same spec
1352+21%=1635.92

athlon700
""""
1429+21%=1729.09

Gamblor

Originally posted by MiCr0:
gerry i'll have there quotes tomorrow
they sent me a brochure with sterling prices ffs
i'll post them when i get them.

BTW
the spec is
piii 600 or athlon 600/700
128mb
20gb 7200rpm
32mb geforce 256
17" monitor
8x DVD
56k modem
100mb zip drive
SoundBlaster PCI 128
& speakers

[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 26-03-2000).]

SELECT 650
Athlon AMD 650MHz Processor
200 Watt ATX Tower Case
AMD 750 Chipset
512K L2 Cache
128MB 100MHz SDRAM (expandable to 768MB)
1.44MB 3.5" Panasonic Diskette Drive
LG 17X min/40X max IDE CD-ROM
Quantum 10GB Ultra ATA 5400rpm Hard Drive
ATI Rage 128VR 8MB Graphics Card
Creative 1373 Digital Sound Card
Creative GCS200 Speakers
V.90 56K Data/Fax/Voice Modem with free gateway.net Internet Access
17" EV700 colour Monitor
AMI BIOS
1 Parallel, 2 Serial Ports, 2 USB ports
5 PCI, 1 AGP slot
Windows 105-key Keyboard
MS® IntelliMouse & Mouse pad
Microsoft Windows 98 second edition on CD
Internet Explorer 5.0
MS Works Suite 2000
Norton Antivirus 5.0
IR£899(IR£1087.79 inc. VAT)

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Gerry

Yeah gamblor you matched that spec fairly well. You should turn professional

Gamblor

I wish i could !!!!!!
It's not a bad price .. plus with free tech support !!!!!!
I would type more hype about gateway but i'm too tired !!!

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MiCr0

hey just found another:
its a athlon 700
dvd/cd-rw
32mb tnt
20gb
same price as the 600piii

what can ne 1 else do for £1500
mail me
dmeagher@eircom.net

sutty

Gamblor are you mad, putting a 200w power supply in an athlon system? you need min a 250 and with a g-force you need a 300, my system is as follows

athlon 550@700 (750 if i want to) (1.60v) .23au
dule fan heat sink
120mm system fan
6x dvd encore
36x cdrom
128 meg's a ram
Creative G-force pro (DDR)
sblive value
wintv go card
56k cpu independent pci modem
10/100 intel network card
Giga-byte GA-7IX motherboard
8.6g maxter hd
win 2k
300w power supply
full tower server case

(did i forget anything???)

i got the win tv go card on sunday and now there is a loss of cable signel in my area!!!


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Gamblor

For the sake of pure greed ... ( btw anayone watch DS9 last ngiht ??? )

SELECT 1000
Athlon AMD 1000MHz Processor
300 Watt ATX Tower Case
AMD 750 Chipset
512K L2 Cache
128MB 100MHz SDRAM (expandable to 768MB)
SuperDisk LS120 Floppy Drive
Toshiba DVD VI 12x DVD 48x CD
20GB Western Digital 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive
nVIDIA RIVA TNT-2 32MB video card
Sound Blaster Live Value Sound Card
Boston Acoustic BA735 Speakers
V.90 56K Data/Fax/Voice Modem with free gateway.net Internet Access
17" EV700 colour Monitor
AMI BIOS
1 Parallel, 2 Serial Ports, 2 USB ports
5 PCI, 1 AGP slot
Windows 105-key Keyboard
MS® IntelliMouse & Mouse pad
Microsoft Windows 98 second edition on CD
Internet Explorer 5.0
MS Works Suite 2000
Norton Antivirus 5.0
IR£2199(IR£2660.79 inc. VAT)

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Kali

amds 1ghz chip isn't the best..
a p3 866 will outperform it in about 40% of tests... their cache design becomes a bottleneck over 900Mhz.

heh imagine spending 2600 quid on a computer and you get a tnt2 and a cheap monitor.

sutty

is that an o/c cpu??

sutty

sould i be the first one to say that a 1Gz athlon is not out yet?

Gamblor

Originally posted by sutty:
sould i be the first one to say that a 1Gz athlon is not out yet?

Gateway are shipping it !!!!! don't know how they got them but they have them

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Overlord

Nice one Gerry ill mail u a spec.

sutty

yes but he wants made to order pc's from people around ireland not gateway,

also as said by Kali a tnt2, sblive value and what motherboard dose it use??? whats up with that??? if your going all out you get a g-force ddr and a sblive with a live drive and a set of those creative 5. desktop theater speakers

Gerry

A gateway machine is gonna be slower by default anyway. If anyone wants a quote for a pc, email the specs to leixlipcomputers@hotmail.com and we will give a competitive quote. Also our pc's are fully tweaked, all high quality components, with the latest patches and drivers. We also offer a better service than gateway because we know what we are talking about!

Frances Farmer

Could u make a mech ter 1000 with a christy bd motherboard and all the latest phealan inventions........I need a quote around £10.
Any offers, no time wasters please

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Koopa

www.scan.co.uk

and buy the graphics card off electronics boutique, theyre the cheapest, and have a shop in dublin

Kali

about buying from scan..
sterling prices make it equivalent to the irish manufacturer prices.
absolutely no point unless you must choose everything yourself and are willing to pay more.

and theres loads of 5-10% vouchers flying around for EB .. which is handy alright
(from www.eb.uk.com:
Geforce 256 DDR £229.99
Geforce 256 SDR £169.99
TNT2 £99.99
M64 £79.99
prices in sterling)

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Koopa

i phoned electronics boutique when i was looking for geforce prices, the one in town, and they said sdr geforces were £200 irish, ddr were £229 i think, and that they didnt have any tnt2s left, but the price was supposed to be £99 irish for a creative labs ultra

kindof seems right, because i purchased a guillemot xentor 16meg tnt2 off them last summer, for £100 irish, theyre the cheapest shop ive seen for graphics cards

as for scan.uk, the point is that when you are paying manufacturers like gateway a similar price, you dont get any choice of hardware, or overclocking or anything in general, and on top of that its slightly cheaper as well.. even with the conversion rates

Gerry

I have creative annihilator pro cards for £200 if anyones interested

MiCr0

right
i've finally decided
its http://www.gateway2000.ie/build/configs/PERF700WEBULTRA.asp?s=home

shank

Gerry do you do fans?

I'm lookin for a GlobalWin VNS04 or a GlobalWin VOS32+ preferably.

amp

yeah sam, that's were I got me voodoo3500.

Oh fyi Micro, a 700 mhz athlon completely kicks the @rse off a 700 mhz P3, no contest.

[This message has been edited by amp (edited 21-04-2000).]

sutty

why yes it does,

also i got mine to 750

but it wont go to 800 with out a l2 speed change

Gerry

Ok amp, post your benchmarks here. Sure in number crunching the athlon is faster, which is all very well if you use scientific software. I reckon my new coppermine with my crappy banshee will have faster benchmarks in quake3 in lower detail. Do your research before making rash generalisations amp

Kali

oh sweet jesus i cant believe i just read that.

any coppermine P3 will beat an equivalently clocked Athlon in every single test bar FPU benchmarks (where the athlon would come out with approx. a 5% increase).

even the 866E beats the 1Ghz athlon in over half of most major benchmarks.

the sooner amd do something about their cache and the data bus between it and the cpu the better.

your full of **** amp

Gerry

I was trying to be subtle kali , but I am getting a coppermine 600 on tuesday which has been tested at 850, so it will "slightly" beat an athlon of the same or lesser speed, especially as the agp and the memory will be overclocked also.

MiCr0

lets be honest
at 700mhz does it really matter?

amp

hmmmm, I was basing my comment on reading Toms Hardware guide and an old comparison between 500/600mhz K7 vs P3 overclocked to 700. ooops. This was pre-coppermine so things have obviously changed a bit.

P.s. Kali, calm down.

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