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Reply 1080
PieMaster
The Antecs which come with cases arent as good as the Antec's you buy seperatly. As far as I remeber, that one has about 18A on the +12v rails which is the minimum I am recommending for new builds.

It should be fine, as long as youre not planning on stacking a load of hard disks in there, filling every PCI slot and overlocking the thing to hell.


http://www.antec.com/specs/SP400_spe.html - it's that I think. Oh and it'll be a fairly empty system I expect :biggrin:.
Reply 1084
flyingpig
what was wrong with the last one?


Nothing in it merits the price tag. Lack of upgradability as well. The Athlon 64-based machine is also likely to be much lighter on electricity usage and run cooler, thus lasting longer. Not only that, I've selected a high quality Samsung TFT to go with it, whereas the P4 system has no detail about the TFT that is included...
Originally Posted by sr4470
No. Try this: http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...onKey=11101,15


the site says this product is discontinued,

am looking for a laptop - £500, that is reliable firstly, i dunno if any come with Word or Microsoft Office already on them? but thats what im gona need it for mainly i think, and downloading music

can anyone recommend one?
How about this Fujitsu Siemens from Comet for £499.99 with a dual core processor and 1GB RAM, and comes with MS Works:
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/572_337307.html

Decent spec for the price and I have owned a Fujitsu Siemens for 18 months with no problems.
Reply 1087
manifestation of morality
the site says this product is discontinued,

am looking for a laptop - £500, that is reliable firstly, i dunno if any come with Word or Microsoft Office already on them? but thats what im gona need it for mainly i think, and downloading music

can anyone recommend one?


Ok, fair enough. As for the laptop, I agree with wicker_man.

wicker_man
How about this Fujitsu Siemens from Comet for £499.99 with a dual core processor and 1GB RAM, and comes with MS Works:
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/572_337307.html

Decent spec for the price and I have owned a Fujitsu Siemens for 18 months with no problems.


Looks good to me. :smile:
cheers guys, i rekon may give my local comet a visit tomoz
Reply 1089
Hi guys, I posted this in the Cambridge forum and was told I should post here as well so here goes,
I'm looking to buy a potrtable computer for lecture notes and essays and basically I've a list of questions I'd like to ask, any advice greatly appreciated!
1. Where is the best place to get one and why?
2. How much memory should I get? What are the basic requirements? What budget should I be looking at?

edit: should I move this post to the laptop thread in the subforum?
Reply 1090
Ghost101, got my Rock Pegasus 665 laptop. Will put review up this week. Very nice system.
Reply 1091
i've seen some pc's on goldenelectronics.co.uk, they seem pretty good value. has anyone one had any expereinces good or bad with this site?

thanks
john
Reply 1092
Dwimm
i've seen some pc's on goldenelectronics.co.uk, they seem pretty good value. has anyone one had any expereinces good or bad with this site?

thanks
john


they look pretty good, another website for real cheap pc's is pcoption.co.uk ,


Youre first mesh loink doesnt work, but
http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTVIEWPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=116787

is far better than the dell pc.

Looking at that, im worried by the fact mesh allow you to pick a 7900gt using the stock 250W PSU. I know its completely irrelevant to Chris.


Check my link, its better. There is no point in getting 7300gs cards in SLI. Get a single 7600GT instead which will be better.

edit: my link aint better, my point stands though.
Reply 1097
ghost101
There is no point in getting 7300gs cards in SLI. Get a single 7600GT instead which will be better.


Agreed. If I was buying a card for gaming at that price point, I'd go with a 7600.
Im gonna be getting one of these

http://www.goldenelectronics.co.uk/item--BA0301-A8V-VM-Deluxe-PC-AMD-Athlon-64-bit--BA0301.html

but 2 things i need to know. Are these new computers compatible with a standard IDE HDD ? and also can anyone see or know what rating the PSU on the cases are and the minimum for running the 3800+ AMD64 with a 7600gt gfx card?

Cheers
Reply 1099
cheekynibbler
Im gonna be getting one of these

http://www.goldenelectronics.co.uk/item--BA0301-A8V-VM-Deluxe-PC-AMD-Athlon-64-bit--BA0301.html

but 2 things i need to know. Are these new computers compatible with a standard IDE HDD ?


Yes, although newer motherboards have only a single IDE connector.

cheekynibbler
and also can anyone see or know what rating the PSU on the cases are and the minimum for running the 3800+ AMD64 with a 7600gt gfx card?

Cheers


They dont provide enough details for me to say for sure, but it seems like the PSUs are generic ones.

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