New Pc thoughts

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Not a fan of COD 4?

I built my last 3 pcs, and they have always been mint spec etc...

but i actually now think that you cant go wrong buying a dell/mesh/evesham or something, at least then it works out of the box, they use branded parts.. and you get a bit of backup if you aint a geek like me

Value for money there isnt much in it. buying seperate bits is a similar price to pre built

bare in mind dell have the power to buy shitloads of gear so they get it all super cheap, and that keeps prices down

I've bought a Mesh as my first ever pc.. no problems there until it was simply out of date. Pre-built my second pc as a gaming pc and had all sorts of stress when things stopped working.. mainly because it's a massive faff on having to track down where you bought the component from, then having to contact manufacturers and fill in forms and pay for deliveries and admin charges etc.

Dell all the way! And for the price I paid you definitely couldn't have got the same spec + all the extras if you bought all the parts yourself.

I couldnt be arsed with the faff on of a self build like

one big draw back of a Dell though...no overclocking

How much do you actually get out of ovcerclocking though other than the satisfaction of knowing your a geek lol

I suppose.. but at the end of the day, the hassle-free process and bargain price (+warranty) kind of makes up for that because i know that if I need to overclock, I can just update the system with the money that I probably would have spent on replacing hardware in a self build. My £200 graphics card packed in last time and the only way to get it fixed was to pay a fortune in delivery + admin fee's to germany. That was only one of the things that broke. I feel much happier knowing that if anything breaks or doesn't work properly, a Dell technician is gonna come to my house and sort it all out for me

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All about the consoles lol

lol, and you think that kind of support is free? Dell are not going to send a technician to your house unless you pay for it! Standard warranty is 1 year collect and return isn't it? Fair enough that's not bad but no different to buying the parts really, as long as you know what the fault is.

And you get a serious performance boost...a Q6600 for example, stock speed of 2.4ghz, happily oc's to 3.6ghz on air with a decent cooler.

And surely you won't get as good parts..what RAM is in your dell? And I would imagine the PSU isn't of particularly great quality either. Who makes the graphics cards for dell? just stuff like that.

I'm just playing devils advocate though, I got all my stuff from 2 stores (ebuyer and overclockers), all high quality stuff so not likely to break but not the end of the world if it does.

I was just having a look for a similar price system to mine on Dell site, XPS630 costs the same as my pc did - spec:

Q6600
Vista Home Premium
1GB RAM
250GB HDD
512MB 8800GT
DVD Drive, mouse and keyboard

No monitor, and...no warranty! The cheapest warranty option is an extra £139, and thats 2 year consumer support which will include home help

for the same money i got

q6600 and cooler
Asus P5K-E mobo
4gb ram
500gb hdd
8800GT
Antec P182
very high quality corsair PSU (tx750)

Doesn't seem like a good deal to me like, but i suppose it just depends on what you want from your pc

Intel® Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600
3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
640GB Dual Hard Drive Raid 0 Stripe (2x320GB - 7200rpm)
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
16x DVD +/- RW Drive
19-in-1 Media Card Reader
Dell Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard
Dell Optical Scroll Premium Mouse
Windows Vista® Home Premium
Base Warranty - 1 Year XPS Premium Hardware Support (incl. Gaming and On-Site Support)

Also, the case is excellent.. brilliant design inside and out with the outside having a screen on that lets you search for media and play/watch them and u can install stuff like weather reports so that they're displayed too.

Total price £587 inc. delivery.

With that I get a pc working straight out of the box

I also bought a lot of my stuff from overclockers, ebuyer and scan when i did my self build but regardless of where you buy it from, you still only have a manufacturers warranty which in the case of my radeon was gonna cost postage to and from germany and an admin fee of £30 or £50.. I can't remember which.

that is mint like, was it a special offer?

Dell's prices seem to change constantly, and i stand corrected RE the support! In my defence, it's not usually like that for free

It was a very special offer Something like free delivery (£60 saved), free hdd upgrade and a free ram upgrade, plus a 10% discount code that I found online. This was for the Dell XPS 420 system only though, but I think a wide range (including this one) already had a £100 off deal for new year. It was at the start of January so the chances of another bargain this good is probably not likely.

I still got an awesome system for an amazing price without doing a custom build though