New system

[[SCUM] Miginty]

ok girls, finaly pcworld gave in and are giving me £800 smakeroos to get a new system with, the downside is that i can only get it from dsgi (pcworld, currys, dixons) i gave up on the lappy idea and i'm goin for a base unit instead, wont get a monitor just now, will hook it up to my hd tv for just now, heres two that i could find close to the price range,ill finaly be able to return to gaming with you lads :D, let me know what you think or if you find better (remember only from dsgi...its a voucher i got)

Acer Aspire predator G7200 Defender II

DELL Studio XPS 8000/0727

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New addition

[[SCUM] Leroy]

The Acer - holy fook that thing looks insane - though it looks VERY expensive for whats inside.

The Dell looks like the better choice - i7, 6gb DDR3 RAM etc.

Where's McPhil?

[[SCUM] OUTLAW]

that new addition looks shit for the price,the cpu and gfx card cost about £200,makes me wonder where the rest of the money is goin...i wouldnt touch that one


the gfx card on that Acer is about £60 tops now and the gfx card in the other one is a nvidia gt220 for the money you got ,there's not much choice in terms of gaming as you could build the equivillent of those pcs for under £400,can you sell the pc credit to someone who wants one,say give them the credit for 600-700 quid ?

[[SCUM] Miginty]

I was thinking the dell aswel, and i cant do that outlaww the voucher is in my name and i need to prove who i am and where i stay for them to accept it :(, so the dell is the best for the money, i suppose i could upgrade the graphics soonish to a better one

[[SCUM] OUTLAW]

gutted...what about buyin it then puttin it up on ebay or something :)

[[SCUM] Miginty]

Lol nah, I'd be too scared to get riped off, I'll get the dell and just get a new graph card sooner rather than later

[[SCUM] McPhil]

*WARNING* Do Not Buy A Dell for Gaming. Do Not Buy A Dell for anything other than propping the door open for when it's hot.

Custom built is the only way to go for gaming PC. They perform SOOOOOOO much better.

http://www.whitecapcomputer.com/newslet ... built.html

http://compreviews.about.com/od/general ... dvsBuy.htm

[[SCUM] Miginty]

i already know that building my pc would be better but i can only get the parts from dsgi as thats who the voucher is from, i had a look earlier today with a friend and unfortunately they dont do decent parts for any sort of reasonable price, and dont do ddr3 ram, only ddr2 and i cant b arsed waiting on them getting ddr3 ram in only for them to stick a stupidly high price tag on it, they do some semi-decent other parts, but ill prob buy This and then stick in a better graph card sometime soon-ish, the ati 5570 isnt too bad, i should b able to play the latest games just not on high settings (med to med-high miby)

[[SCUM] Speedy]

Do Not Buy A Dell for anything other than propping the door open for when it's hot.

I couldn't guarantee it wouldn't catch fire in this situation.

[[SCUM] McPhil]

ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series isn't that great m8. Look at least the Radeon HD 5700 Series. About 14 people I know including myself have put one in their gaming PC or work PC and they (I) can play BC2 with setting on High and AAx16.

The Sapphire Vapor-X brand can't be beat at this point in time.

[[SCUM] Miginty]

hello my duckies, just a little update on my situation.
I am goin for a full refund, none of this voucher pish, so hopefully in a few weeks i will be pestering someone for a nice shiney new system full of win :D, ill let u all know

Edit/Addition: out of curiosity what sort of system could i get for around £900 :D

[[SCUM] McPhil]

On a budget, always go with a high-end motherboard because upgrading your motherboard is a horrible task. Go with an entry-level CPU, decent memory, decent hard drive (smaller = faster), right now ATI is the only graphics processor manufacturer that is DirectX compliant so going with Windows 7 premium and an ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series is a great performance compromise and will save you money now without a noticeable loss of performance. Go with a steal case which will provide you more stability, doesn't warp when heated, and lower vibration from the fans.

Leroy - what did your new kit come too?

[[SCUM] Leroy]

730 with no OS

[[SCUM] McPhil]

730 with no OS

That answer your question Miginty? I think Leroy went with some standard DIMMs too so with a 900 budget you could even spring for some gaming memory with the fancy latency timings.

[[SCUM] Miginty]

:D ¬_¬ theres a chance i might just build my own....scan, overclockers and novatech here i come :D