Evening All, I'm in a sticky dilemma. I know how to build a PC but since I've been on a laptop for the last 4 - 5 years I've kinda got a little behind in the spec side of PC's I have a Advent T2080 Laptop I have a budget of £300 - £350 for a desktop. I don't need a monitor just a complete tower. So far I've been quoted core 2 quad 6600 4 gig ram 500 gig HDD Vista £352.50 From friend I have been searching UKHotDeals but nothing good is on at the moment Any suggestions?
Looks like a pretty good config for you. if you like to play modern games then you should think about graphics cards.
WHta he said ^^ Depending what you use this for, you might want to invest in a good 256 or 512mb video card, which will increase that quote quite a bit.
As the others have said, thats a pretty good deal for what you have there, but if you intend to play games or run multimedia programs that need good graphics capabilities (such as video editing programs, even image editing programs to an extent) then buy a half decent graphics card, the on board ones are usually pretty poor. You can get a pretty decent one for about £60-80 nowadays.
Similar to what I am upgrading to soon. The only difference is that I will also get a 10k rpm raptor hdd and I already have Vista + GFX card.
So what ARE you going to be doing with this machine? Also, when you say 'from friend' is he just getting you a good deal or is it a used PC?
Morning, No he has a computer building business its all brand new, web design, SEO and blogging. That's about it really!