need a base unit - Saxperience

Barry123 · 21st July 2009, 12:17

guy I fuggered my graphics card yesterday.

now AGP cards appear to cost a bomb as they've given way to PCI express. so I need a PCI express graphics card.... but wait! I don't have any PCI express ports! so I need a new motherboard as well! so I need to get a new Processor, which means new type of RAM, SATA hard disks as opposed to my IDE...

raghhhhhhhh fucking computers.

Recommend me the best value base unit I can get. where can I get them from?

I don't need a sound card (got my x-fi), I don't need monitors or keyboard or mouse.

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Tony · 21st July 2009, 12:54

I think the Dell £440 one on sale at PC World isn't too bad. I'm sure the PC gurus will come in and shoot me down.

Scott^p · 21st July 2009, 13:22

Get onto overclockers and build one yourself and save a packet?

Barry123 · 21st July 2009, 13:32

I'll have a looksee... cheers man.

taki · 22nd July 2009, 23:35

I built mine on ebuyer. Decent spec and cheap as chips! Them, scan and novatech are worth having a gander at.

Barry123 · 22nd July 2009, 23:40

brill cheers man... build it myself it is then!

JoNaH_FTW · 22nd July 2009, 23:44

>novatech do bundles< where you get everthing made up for you. You can then just buy any graphics card that fits, might be a help if you dont know how to connect all the things up like me

Bound · 23rd July 2009, 13:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by taki

I built mine on ebuyer. Decent spec and cheap as chips! Them, scan and novatech are worth having a gander at.

Agreed, eBuyer is good.

Another good option is to buy something with say, a quad core, 4gb ram, 500gb-1tb hard drive, with a piece of shit/onboard graphics card, then just switch it out for a good graphics card.

This works out great as you can get this set up dirt cheap especially if there's offers on (there often is on eBuyer).