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I'm thinking of selling my i-Mac, 'cos I don't actually use it for anything other than talking to you guys and looking at the Nissan manual. My mum wants to buy it so I'd might as well sell while it's still worth something, and I'm a bit fed up of not being able to look at some vid clips....
So, what spec PC do I need for general web stuff, given that I have a slow connection (9kbps tops, normally 2-3. :( ) ?
I'll get my mum's PC off her which is running Win 98, so I'll have the basic peripherals. I'll need a CD writer too at some point (for music mostly) but other than that I don't care.
What I REALLY want is a laptop, so I can get into engine mapping on the fly eventually, but probably too pricey at the mo'...
I can't believe I'm doing it, but there it is.
Help? :confused:
Goblinslayer
12-09-2002, 12:10
General application stuff, like web etc will run fine on Windows 98 on anything 300mhz or higher..
1ghz and a decent video card gforce 2 or 3 will run any game out there...
dave_s13
12-09-2002, 14:16
Originally posted by Billy
and I'm a bit fed up of not being able to look at some vid clips....
Do you mean web based video clips?? If so you'll need Broadband to look at stuff like that, 56k modems just aren't up to it unless your prepared to wait hours for stuff to download.
I've built computers for lots of people, If youre interested I can do you one that'll play games, surf etc.. for about £475.
I can mail you a full spec if your interested.
Jezz_S13
12-09-2002, 14:33
My PC in the house is an overclocked celery 300 to 460, 380MB RAM and a few HDD's. It's ancient so is worth about £150 in real terms but for surfing, email, CD writing and divx porn movies it's all you need. :)
Papa Lazarou
12-09-2002, 14:42
You can buy/build a fantastic spec PC these days which will do just about everything you'd want for just a few hundred quid.
CD burners are available from about £40 now and very fast AMD Athlon or Duron processors are cheap as feck.
Jezz_S13
12-09-2002, 14:47
Originally posted by Papa Lazarou
You can buy/build a fantastic spec PC these days which will do just about everything you'd want for just a few hundred quid.
CD burners are available from about £40 now and very fast AMD Athlon or Duron processors are cheap as feck.
Yep I got a Gigabyte MB, 1.33Ghz Athlon, fan for £110 last week for a mate at work.
Liteon fast CDRWs are £35.
RAM prices seem to have crept up again a bit though.
HDD £60-70
Prolly cheaper to buy new than S/H as people don't realise just how much their PC's have devalued since they spent £1000 on them 2 years ago, worth fook all now yuet they still want 4-500 for them.
dave_s13
12-09-2002, 14:53
go here for the cheapest stuff
www.ebuyer.com
Jezz_S13
12-09-2002, 15:01
or www.dabs.com free del.
dave_s13
12-09-2002, 15:09
If your spending over £100 at www.ebuyer.com you get free delivery.
I've found over the last 2 months (in which I've spent a bit over £2500 on computer bits) that they are the cheapest source for parts.
There customer service is TOSS though, it takes 15 minutes to get through. They try to do everything online, which is good in theory but sometimes you need to speak to someone and there not right good at that.
Jezz_S13
12-09-2002, 15:18
Originally posted by dave_s13
If your spending over £100 at www.ebuyer.com you get free delivery.
I've found over the last 2 months (in which I've spent a bit over £2500 on computer bits) that they are the cheapest source for parts.
There customer service is TOSS though, it takes 15 minutes to get through. They try to do everything online, which is good in theory but sometimes you need to speak to someone and there not right good at that.
Yeah very true!! Most are crap as customer service, never had to deal with dabs CS dept but I use them a lot and never had to send stuff back yet fortunately. Eclipse in Cov were awful, if indeed they still exist, ******s had several rows with them a few years back LOL, Scan's SC were pretty crap too. Soem good deals on the today only thing though.
I built a pc for my folks a while back, decided what I wanted and got the cheapest from about 3 or 4 different places. What a chore!!! wasn't wrth the hassle realy for the sake of £50.
Yep, you should be able to build a pretty good PC for £300-£400. 1.1GHz Duron's cost next to nothing (20 something quid) and a decent mobo like an ECS K7S5A should set you back less than £45. Add 256MB of DDR memory for about 40ish and you've got the makings of a fine PC. As mentioned, eBuyer are the cheapest. IMHO you should only buy memory from Crucial (http://www.crucial.com/uk) though. Only a few quid more than an no-name el cheapo stick and rock solid reliability, free delivery and excellent customer service. Stick with eBuyer for everything else. They've got cases for about £12 on there! 50ish for a 40GB hard drive, 35ish for a Lite-On CDRW, 29ish for a Lite-On DVD, 45ish for a GeForce 4 MX, fiver for a sound card, fiver for a floppy drive and there's your PC! :D Best to stick XP on it though for a home machine, wouldn't touch 98 to be honest. Just my two-penneth worth.
Originally posted by Goblinslayer
General application stuff, like web etc will run fine on Windows 98 on anything 300mhz or higher..
1ghz and a decent video card gforce 2 or 3 will run any game out there...
... but possibly not at an acceptable level, have you tried Battlefield 1942 on that spec? :)
Cheers peeps! :)
I'm not going to be gaming on line, don't really have time for the playstation these days....:(
I'm not expecting to watch video live (so to speak), but a lot of downloads are in formats that I can't access without some software that I can't afford at the mo'.
I'll see what my mum will give me for the I-Mac, and take it from there.
No suggestions about laptops then?
It's a good job I didn't get an MR2. Nicky Clarke doesn't build computers..... :D:D:D
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