Gaming PC's ready made?

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  1. ManofScience

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    Gaming PC's ready made?

    i'm not very up on gaming machines, someone asked me about a ready made one with a decent monitor for about £600

    are alienware still top dog but expensive?
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  3. Jason Bourne

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    Alienware are the boys, along with Scan.. but are expensive.

    Custom all the way tbh.. and its gonna be hard to get a decent gaming machine and a monitor for that price.

    Aria have a 24" acer 1080p monitor for 150 atm on a special.. not leaving much for components tho.

    4GB of DDR2 5400 RAM for about 45 quid from there as well..

    Leaving 400 quid for other stuff.. 50 in a MB, 80 on a CPU.. doesn't leave you with much for the rest.

    Chandler ;)
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    Perhaps a good idea to look for special offers and discount codes. I managed to get a mine with a saving of about £200 due to a special offer + discount code, and free upgrades with ram and hdd when I bought mine. Mine is a Dell. Whatever people may want to say about Dell, it's been the best PC I've had by a mile, and hasn't given me any trouble.
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    Buy all that, stick it together, and youve got a good pc! :)

    100 quid left over towards a monitor
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    cheers everyone!

    it's not for me but someone asked and i just wanted to shoo them in the right direction - own build would be better for me but for a numpty - a nice shop bought thing with warranty would keep them out of my hair

    still, that spec anderz is tasty
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    If i was going shop bought Id be looking at dell then. Get great specs for the money
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    Mr.B.ThatsMe 'yi raji puff

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    I got my Dell in January of last year, for £580.

    Q6600
    3GB ram
    512MB Geforce 8800GT
    2x 300GB hdd's in Raid 0
    All the other usuals plus card reader and a lcd screen on the case itself that lets you control music etc.

    For £580 it was a total bargain. Anything similar was gonna be at least £800. Got the discount codes/offer info from hotukdeals. Defo worth looking at that site for any potential money savers :)
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    Yeah there was a time when there was Dell offers on all the time on Hotuk.. what happened? why arent they around so much?

    guy who puts em up musta stopped i guess :(
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    Suppose it's down to Dell whether or not they have working discount codes floating around. The best time to buy a pc has got to be the first week or so of January.
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    Alienware is a proper ripoff

    your only paying for a case that looks naff

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