Calling all computer genius'!!! In need of a new computer!?

Question

I made this computer on a custom computer building website, is this worth the £951 quoted including VAT and delivery. Or is there better websites with reasonably powerful computers for general home use and ability to play movies with good picture etc.

Thank you in advance


Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz) 1333MHz FSB/6MB L2 Cache

Memory (RAM)
4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x2GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® P5QL: DDR2, SATAII, PCI-e x16, 3 PCI, 2 x PCI-e x1

Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64-bit + Windows 7 Upgrade Voucher (£86)

USB Options
BLUETOOTH USB ADAPTER (£9)

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

1st CD/DVD Drive
22x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

2nd CD/DVD Drive
NONE

Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 9500GT PCI EXPRESS

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Sound Card
ASUS XONAR DS - Bring Hi-Fi spirit to your Music, Movie & Games (£35)

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

Floppy Disk Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)

Case
ANTEC SOLO QUIET MINI TOWER CASE - PIANO BLACK/SILVER

Power Supply & Case Cooling
350W Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan

Processor Cooling
ARCTIC COOLING FREEZER 7 PRO QUIET INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)

Firewire & Video Editing
3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9)

TV Card
DUAL DIGITAL TV CARD (Watch/Record Freeview on PC)

Monitor
22 Inch Wide TFT Silver/Black 1680 x1050 5MS D-Sub, DVI (£115)

2nd Monitor
NONE

GeForce 3D Vision
NONE

DVI Cable
NONE

Keyboard & Mouse
Logitech® Deluxe 660 Cordless Keyboard & Optical Mouse (£16)

Mouse
NONE

Speakers
LOGITECH X-540 5.1 Surround sound effect with full range and deep bass (£69)

Webcam
NONE

Headsets (VOIP)
NONE

Surge Protection
Belkin 4 Socket 2M Surge Protector with £25,000 Protection! (£8)

Printer
HP PHOTOSMART C4480 ALL-IN-ONE PRINTER + USB CABLE (£49)

Anti-Virus
NONE

Office Software
Microsoft® Office® 2007 Home & Student (3 Licence) (£69)

Answer 1

Overpriced much? I think so, but it's actually about right when you go pre-built like that. I am currently building a rig extremely similar to this one and the total rig is about 900USD which is roughly 150-200BP less than the one you have here (depending on the current exchange rate). Wanna know the differences though.



4GB Crucial Ballistix 800 with performance SPD profiles (overclocking galore)



PC Power and Cooling 750 Watt PSU



EVGA 9800GTX+



WD 1TB GreenDrive

Answer 2

No and I'm better that was built on PCspecialist.co.uk



I was originally going to shop there and thought their prices were good. Turns out that's not the case.



Forget about Office software you can download free versions of that via download.com - don't worry about anti-virus. You can get surge protection extension sockets for about 4 quid in Asda etc, the list goes on.



Not only that but you could build something better on www.overclockers.co.uk for cheaper, then pick up the other accessories like printers else where to lower the price.



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Answer 3

In a way its hard to quantify because theres lots there that i wouldn't of bothered with ie: I have ym own copy of vista ultimate so wouldn't of bought that.



But to put it in perspective i built my own pc start to finish for £600 for just the box and my spec is as follows:-



Core2 Quad q8300 2.5GHz 13333fsb CPU

2x2GB OCZ Raptor DDR2 800mhz RAM

MSI P7N Platinum Socket 775 nforce 750i 3 x SLI mobo

Inno3D Nvidia 9800GTX+ OC 512MB Graphics card

Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500GB Hard Disk

Lian Li Silver Polished Aluminium Case

Sony DVDRW

Silver FLoppy

OCZ 600Watt PSU

Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit + Office 2007



So you can see my spec is better than yours for every single componant and yet it cost me 600 quid some months ago.



So basically i'd reccomend building a pc yourself and possibly getting a hooky copy of vista ultimate :)



EDIT: Forgot to mention, on a serious note you need to ask for a better PSU, even with dual rails 350 watts is ridiculously low. I would reccomend at least a 600 watt one and make sure its a good make OCZ do nice PSU's for about £50.

Answer 4

I'm not good with foreign currency, but that is a good hardware configuration for high def gaming, no doubt about that. I bought a $600 USD basic computer and changed the video card from an OEM GeForce G100 to a Galaxy GeForce 9600GT for superior gaming graphics.

Answer 5

Are you really asking or are you trying to sell it cuse this web site is for questions only