can anyone better this?

[original.wood]

Q8300 CPU
4gb RAM
1TB HDD
GeForce 9500 or equivelant
Blu-Ray drive
wireless lan N-Draft
front bay device (2 USB, headphone, mic, firewire and card reader)
inc keyboard, mouse, psu and case?
all for £600

just seen this exact spec, albeit a imported cheap german brand being sold in a cheap supermarket for the said £600

just wondering if a self builder could get just as good a deal or not.

 

[jlss]

That come with a os aswell?

 

[original.wood]

yeah it did,
Windows Vista® Home Premium 32 Bit incl. Service Pack 1 with new Media Center interface (32 Bit version preinstalled, 64 Bit version included in delivery)

regarding the 64bit included, i think you just insert the disk and upgrade to 64b

 

[cmndr_andi]

I can't beat the price with retail stuff - but you will get a better PC if you built it yourself. That PC is pretty CPU heavy with a (pretty bad) quad core. The Graphics card is sufficient to play Blu Rays- but not much else (modern games will struggle). Also, the motherboard and PSU they used are likely bargain basement (P31 & ACME psu), same goes for the mouse and keyboard.

If you want a better build for the same money - get a p43, e5200 + 3rd party cooler and a 4850. Loose the front card bay and get a wireless card that matches the speed of your router (if you router is G, there is little point in getting N).

 

[RJC]

Any good:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.5GHz 4MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail £166.74
(£144.99) £166.74
(£144.99)

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £89.99
(£78.25) £89.99
(£78.25)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £68.99
(£59.99) £68.99
(£59.99)

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £67.99
(£59.12) £67.99
(£59.12)

Sony BDU-X10S Blu-Ray Reader Serial-ATA Drive - Retail £53.99
(£46.95) £53.99
(£46.95)

OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply £51.99
(£45.21) £51.99
(£45.21)

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4650 512MB TV-Out/HDTV/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £44.99
(£39.12) £44.99
(£39.12)

OcUK 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel £28.74
(£24.99) £28.74
(£24.99)

Asus TA-861 Midi-ATX Case - Black/Silver (No PSU) £21.84
(£18.99) £21.84
(£18.99)

Belkin F5D7000UK 54Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter £16.09
(£13.99) £16.09
(£13.99) Sub Total : £531.60 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £81.50 Total : £624.85

When installing 64bit you would need to do a complete re-install.

 

[Plec]

Andi's spec is by far a superior machine.

Matching the components to your needs is what self buillds are about - it's here that you make the real savings.

EDIT: and RJC's (wish i could type faster)

 

[cmndr_andi]

Here is my spec:

Should be the better overall machine. Also - this Blu Ray drive writes to dvds/cds too.

 

[original.wood]

yeah thats really cool!

i fully understand there is no chance of getting a matching price for componant spec and that a close match will beat the quoted spec out right but for a smaller cost, like RJC's and andi's specs.

as you can see from my sig, im in no need to buy said £600 pc, im a member on another forum that deals with Aldi/Medion deals and this was brought to my attention and wondered if the original spec was a good deal or not.

i guess for <£50 more a self build would be LOADS better, but if i was to scrap the OS and install W7 RC then it would be good to go with a mix of both RJC's and andi's specs

 

[S.A.S]

yeah that last spec pretty sweet although that gfx card may be overkill but for that price who cares