Finally bought it.,....

Tobes · 4 Sep 2006 at 14:20

A reason I don't buy brand name PCs is because of the components they use. Medions graphics cards are really bad. The cases are a mess inside.

The Medion my parents have has had the graphics card fan die which meant the GPU burned. The wireless card is just a small chip that locks into the motherboard. (what you might find inside a laptop) With a wire coming off it to the front of the case..... great signal strength :rolleyes:

Plus all the utter crap that comes pre installed. Ugh

Benny · 4 Sep 2006 at 14:37

It is possible the guy is happy with it and it does what he wants.
I remember I purchased a prebuilt from Gateway about 7 years ago.
It was a lesson learned, we al have to start somewhere. The thing is
if the mistake is made again in the future.

B

UKTopGun · 4 Sep 2006 at 14:47

galabanga said:
well./.. with 2 year warrenty, and an expansive speaker... (thats already 200quid gone)

anyway... didn't have a limited amount of money (good old parents)

so.... don't kill me about it....

You get just as long if not longer warranties buying stuff seperate. i.e. I bought an Artic Freezer 7 pro and it has a 6 year warranty

. Plus on your warranty you have to send your whole system back instead of just one part = pain.

What speaker did it come with? And why only one?

REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST
SW-008-MS Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Edition - OEM - 1Pk (M93-00200) (SW-008-MS) 1
£65.99 £65.99
CP-132-IN Intel Pentium 4 945 Dual Core "LGA775 Presler" 3.4GHz (800FSB) - Retail (CP-132-IN) 1
£109.95 £109.95
MY-012-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 LA PC2-5400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-5400PHU2-2GBLA) (MY-012-GS) 1
£109.99 £109.99
HD-085-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB ST3200820AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-085-SE) 2
£45.95 £91.90
CD-035-NE NEC ND3550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-035-NE) 1
£19.95 £19.95
GX-003-EA EVGA GeForce 7600 GS 512MB DDR2 HDTV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-003-EA) 1
£87.99 £87.99
Subtotal £485.77
VAT £85.01
Total £570.78

I know I missed out a few things but not £630's worth.

Edit: Just noticed you said "I bought it"

Andy298 · 4 Sep 2006 at 14:47

Benny said:
It is possible the guy is happy with it and it does what he wants.
I remember I purchased a prebuilt from Gateway about 7 years ago.
It was a lesson learned, we al have to start somewhere. The thing is
if the mistake is made again in the future.

B

So true!
My first PC I bought was an AST P133. Cost me about 900 quid and I had nothing but trouble with it. I wasn't really that clued up on PC's back then and AST customer support sucked! Sold it 2 years later for about 100 quid and built my own. I swore never to buy a pre-built/branded PC again!

kitten · 4 Sep 2006 at 15:13

For a first PC for a user that has never built, well, I think that's a pretty cool PC. Can you guys not remember when a PC was new experience for you? Were you brave enough to build your first one? I wasn't, I bought a second hand 386SX33, DX266 was state of the art at the time and they were expensive. By the time it came to my second PC I had learned enough and was brave enough to built one: AMD DX4120 with 8Mb RAM It was an amazing upgrade. I haven't bought a pre-built PC since that first SX33.

Galabanga, if I may advise: Use this new PC to learn, upgrade it, swap out parts. Get to know how to build. Then you never have to buy pre-built again and any new PC, YOU can design and built to YOUR OWN specification. If this is not your first PC then I'm afraid it appears that you missed that boat the first time round

Whatever the case, good luck and enjoy your new box