my sister = dip **** stupid. £600 spent, come look what she got...

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 02:15

off the shelf system by phillips costing £600!!!

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next to each item i have put the value of the item if bought and built by me.

Intel P4 3.06Ghz northwood £130
512mb unbranded DDR ram £20
radeon 9250 128mb. £35
160 gig maxtor IDE drive £45
GigaByte 8I865GVME £30
phillips DVDRW £40
temp controlled fans £20
generic TFT 17" £115

she paid £600

actual worth (and this is an over estimate) £435. (EDIT: i should have noted that that includes the OS)

believe it or not, she bought it because this was on a one day sale, it was £799 originally. now im utterly ****** off with her because its a pile of crap and i just dont have the heart to say you stupid idiots, youve been ripped off you daft buggers. (that allowed?)

why in the name of god didnt she come to me ? i mean jesus, ive been doing this for ten years, you think she would have some bloody faith. idiotic woman and even more idiotic husband. ultimatly its the kids that suffer as i tried running quake on it for them today, lag fest on lowest settings at 800X600.

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 02:37

i just dont understand HOW the hell she could possibly think i couldnt beat that price for that pos ffs.

crappy agp, old tech intel, then to top it off she goes with AOL!!!!!!!!!!!

"angels and ministers of grace preserve us"

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 02:41

the fact that its an intel is bad in my book anyway

but i pull no punches and freely admit im an AMD fanboy :rolleyes:

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 02:47

Phnom_Penh said:
Don't nock 'em, there are some celerons going round at the moment that are making some of the AMD64s look pretty crap.

i have no issues with the CPU`s, its the companys methods that i despise.

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 10:03

Moeks said:
It's her choice to make, however bad, question is though ...are you so mad because she got ripped off or because she didn't come to you first

im peed off because it was the one thing ive been trying to do for the kids for the last 3 years to make up for all the missed birthdays

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:30

Combat squirrel said:
If she has just bought it, sit her down, explain in a nice way that its a rubbish PC for the money (dont tell her shes stupid! lol) take it back to the shop, im sure if its just new they will refund her, then get her a proper pc for less money ?

ive already told them both v nicely that they paid way too much for a heap o junk. they really dont want to hear it.

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:52

Mul said:
I was actually blamed this morning for making the electric bill double because of my server. Considering my server would struggle to consume more than 170W, I don't see how I could've been the cause.

Mul

based on 200 watts being used and an expensive Kwph rate of 8 pence your server would use £139.78p per year.

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 18:30

Raymond Lin said:
You forgot to add shipping still nice spec for £sub £600.

off the shelf, means literally off the shelf in this case. there was no shipping and its a god damn terrible spec. my pc cost £100 more and its a damn fine machine.

locutus12 · 20 Apr 2006 at 18:52

Phnom_Penh said:
Hmm, it isn't that bad, its not like someone sold her a p2 350 spec machine for £600, now that's blue murder tbh.

meh, im just dissapointed for the kids is all, they could have at least given her a pci-E system

locutus12 · 21 Apr 2006 at 15:28

jpmonkey69 said:
You forgot to add the warranty too.

my sisters pc has 1 year return to base warrenty on the base unit only !!! kbd / mouse / monitor / not covered !! :eek:

locutus12 · 24 Apr 2006 at 02:11

kdd said:
She probaly got a guarantee and free servicing/replacement though, and if you're the sort who doesn't care about pc stuff that is invaluable.

see post number 55, she got squat.

Journey said:
I understand the OP annoyance at not being asked for advice but what does his sister really use her PC for? Internet, E-Mail, Word Processing, Watching DVD's, Skype, MSN?

Try Quake 4, F.E.A.R. and battlefield 2. thats what it was going to be used for till I had to explain to them why they couldnt. my sister and her husband barley know how to use a pc but my teenage nephew (whose been watching me on mine and playing on my pc for a while, hence why he likes these games) is another story, as is my teenage neice...

Journey said:
Yes you might have managed to make it for a bit less cash, bus as mentioned before the warranty would be on your headthen add in all the pre-packaged software and Windows XP, packaging etc.. You get where this is going, £699 is not a bad price if she has no application specific requirments. Instead of slating her for doing this, why not offer to help if she has an issues, thats what a nice Brother would do

abit less cash ? i could have built her a pc with a combination of new parts and parts + OS from MM and OCUK that not only would have rocked but would have had cover and cost a damn site less, or i could have gone for a completely new system, used my trade account with my local supplier (very big company), got 15% off my parts and 10% off the OS and still come in at under £450. also with me, she wouldnt be stuck with AGP system and an old Pentium 4 socket mobo thats no longer used. as for the 512 mb of ram and the 9200, with me that would have been a gig and an X800GTO.

as for offering her help, thats what ive already done and will continue to do, thats why im so annoyed, because now ive got to get her to spend money she doesnt have, on a pc she shouldnt have, to give the kids what they should have had. if i wasnt a good brother i wouldnt of gone round there and given them all of my games from 2003 and earlier (as thats about all it can run) plus secured the system for net use.

Journey said:
If you want to reccomend an off the shelf PC why no point them to OCUK systems page, decent prices and decent parts with no warranty issues It's a win win situation!

closing stable gate + missing horse = already bolted.

locutus12 · 24 Apr 2006 at 03:17

Journey said:
So take the PC back on the grounds she was mis-sold it, or it's not fit for it's purpose, something to that effect.

I'd also think that if she is going to want to play all those games with a £600 budget, even with your 15% off, and a second hand XP (£10 saving?) you'd be better off with all B-Grade or second hand items, and be willing to give your sister a 1 year waranty from yourself to cover any faults.

it was bought over 2 weeks ago... she kept it quiet from me for most of that. hell i only found out because my mother mentioned it to me :confused:

also its from currys, theres not a hope in hell of getting them to take it back on the grounds that it was miss sold, plus id have to actually tell them that they have paid £600 for a bad deal computer. at the moment they are under the impression that the pc just isnt powerful enough due to how much it cost (they actually believe it was a good deal)