A fool and his money???

[Frosticles]

My beautiful little boy decided to knacker my desktop puta last night. took into work today only to find out motherboard is shagged. Specced up a replacement only to be told it will be £1200 Paid without questioning.....Fool or no fool?????? Think spec is ok thoght:-
quad pentium processor
1400 gig hard drives (3 of)
4 gig ram
2x dvd dual layer writers
nice black atx case
19" widescreen monitor
soundblaster audigy ultra sound card
good graphics card (I think)
Windows Vista
10 usb 2 ports
other things I can't remember.
Does this sound good or not?? As am worried.

[topaz]

Fool !

[Dave1800BDA]

Fool !

snigger

[vinny]

:dontknow:

[rwdrs]

you're allowed to give it back ain't you if you're not satisfied, you've got two weeks as far as I know

[Frosticles]

:mad: What's wrong with it???

[vinny]

is it "works spec" kev :D

[topaz]

:mad: What's wrong with it???

just sounds dear for a no make pc, you can get a hell of a lot from dell for £1200.

If I were you i'd get them to write down the FULL spec inc cpu speeds, memory sizes and speeds, motherboard make/manufacturer/model and post it on a site like www.overclockers.co.uk (http://www.overclockers.co.uk) to get an expert opinion of what you are getting for your money and if the components will work well together, people on this site build pcs every day and keep up with latest fads.

£1200 at dell would go a long way, and thats what i'd buy in the first place. You could of got something kick ass from dell outlet (scratched case) for a fraction of that and thats where I get my pc's from.

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Kev

At £1200 you are well into Pro-Pc terratory

My local independent PC shop for £1200 would give u a free blow job and a top-line PC for that kind of money

[Banishit]

if it was ****ed I would have claimed it on the house insurance , £1200 are you ****ing mad

[hally]

you have far to much money kev, whats your lad do on it, is he a nuclear scientist?

[graham John]

Kev

At £1200 you are well into Pro-Pc terratory

My local independent PC shop for £1200 would give u a free blow job and a top-line PC for that kind of money

and straighten out any other problems you may have:D

cheeRS

[macjam]

Don't touch Vista yet awhile, still way too unstable and crashes quite regularly.

The spec of the pc sounds very good, but do you really need something that could launch and fly the Battlestar Galactica?

The price of pc sounds ****in horrendous, been said before but find out what Dell will do you but make sure you ask for XP. I've heard the gremlins with Vista aren't supposed to be ironed out until next year.

[Frosticles]

Am a little worried about Vista as we couldn't get it to load properly today (Using lap top at mo) All the components are top quality Asus motherboard, Hitatchi DVD writers, Creative soundcard, 4 gig DDR memory. Sata Hard drives

Basically gone for the big spec as my old PC cost the same 6 years ago and has been great. Don't want it to get outdated quickly. Use it for shit loads of music, Have 900 CD's on it so far and more every day, Do lots of DVD writing and downloading. Converting video to DVD which was a pain on my old PC as kept missing frames due to not keeping up with the frame rate. No Gaming as I really get bored quickly with them so gone for a lesser video card but still a good one.

[graham John]

Don't touch Vista yet awhile, still way too unstable and crashes quite regularly.

. I've heard the gremlins with Vista aren't supposed to be ironed out until next year.

Ive got vista on the new computer here at home,
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[Mk2grp4]

My pc is a dell , 14"flat screen ,wire less key board and mouse ,cd copyer but no dvd copyer yet ,on windows xp total cost £240 only 2years old..

£1200 is that £250/£300 for a new pc and the money left to get the red shed restored :agree:

[Frosticles]

Spent the shed money on it......:( need to start saving again.

[rwdrs]

not interested in Vista and AFAIK it ain't up to much yet, it uses far too much memory:(

[Mk2grp4]

Spent the shed money on it......:( need to start saving again.

Get a proper job then :boxing: :jumpy:

[Frosticles]

Oi Bellend, No Tangents on this thread please.:D

[Mk2grp4]

Oi Bellend, No Tangents on this thread please.:D
PMSL :D Bellend :D

[Banishit]

we loaded vista on the mates, and found a few programs wont work unless you run them in XP compatabilty mode, like the look buts thats about it

[Aaron P.]

That Sounds Alright To Me Kev...but As Somebody Metioned Get It Checked Out First....or Do As Neil Says & Buy A Dell....ive Got A Work Station At Home & In The Office....both Savage & High Memory But Not Sure Of Either Spec ;)

[Kel]

Had Vista since release, had no real issues that new drivers havent solved.

All 4 :eek: PC at home are Dell and the 500 workstation and 30 servers are all Dell at work.

Only thing against Dell is the Retail support based in India where Corp support is in Ireland. But I can get round the indian support thing ;)

[cossie si]

Kev

At £1200 you are well into Pro-Pc terratory

My local independent PC shop for £1200 would give u a free blow job and a top-line PC for that kind of money
Where is it dave,could just go a blow job about now!lol;)

[paul mann]

holy **** that sound like too much cash for a computer,what you running war games linked to the pentagon :dropmouth:

[Frosticles]

Well, It's home and all's well after a LOT of faffing around with it. Only a couple of programs won't run (Evidence Eliminator, Clone DVD) All I can say is, Er.......looks nice. :o

[topaz]

has the shop owner booked his trip to barbados yet? :rr:

[Dave1800BDA]

http://www.pinkdome.com/archives/MonopolyMan.jpg

[graham John]

http://www.fotosearch.com/thumb/CSK/CSK433/ks113042.jpg
http://www.fotosearch.com/thumb/CSK/CSK384/KS85133.jpg





cheeRS

[Frosticles]

Thanks lads........:(

[paul spence]

no bother baldy:agree:

[topaz]

he's in here somewhere...

http://www.overshadowed.com/mt/archives/images/062205/hummer.jpg

[RStu]

Thats some spec Kev, Although the pc I'm on now cost me £2000 7 years ago, It was full on spec back then, its like a zx81 in comparison now :(