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Ian M
09-12-2011, 04:22 PM
My computer seems to be on its last legs I'm sorry to say & have been searching around for a new one. As with most of us at present I'm on a tight budget but, need something that is fairly powerful to use for everything I do. I've seen this one which seems to be very good for the money & was wondering what you all thought of it.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/advent-dt1404-desktop-pc-11290971-pdt.html

I do like the Advent computers I have to admit & my very first one was an Advent as is also the one I have now which, has been very good over the last 5 years. Many thanks in advance for all your comments & help.

Ian :biggrin:

mrs maggot
09-12-2011, 04:36 PM
have you looked on ebuyer ?? they normally have some bargains, and at this time of the year i would wait a while and see if there is anything thrown up in the sales

Paul
09-12-2011, 04:44 PM
i think for its price look ok.

Reg
09-12-2011, 05:55 PM
Mine packed up earlier this year and as money was tight I bought a bare bones bundle and put my drives in it for less than 150 its the second one I've had the last one lasted over 6years most of the time in a blasting workshop. http://www.novatech.co.uk/barebonebundles/

purpledragon
09-12-2011, 05:55 PM
pretty good for the price , fast processer a terabyte of storage 4 gig ram cant fault it

JackB
09-12-2011, 06:43 PM
Have you had a look in their refurbished section: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/refurbished-pcs/706_7367_70456_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html
I bought mine from them five years ago at under half price after adding a new montor of my choice, (£700 instead of £1500) and it is still a very powerful machine.
( they do carry the mormal 12 months warranty)

Jack.

Justin
09-12-2011, 07:01 PM
I'm an AMD fan but if I was looking at Intel again I'd want to get a better CPU I think. That said, for the money it looks fine. Not keen on badged PC's as you get so much more for your money if you build yourself. I see the cost of hard drives rocketed recently so if you start to break it down you're certainly getting your moneys worth :-)

Only seems to have VGA output?

As already mentioned, eBuyer well worth checking out, I was looking there recently and they had some good entry level stuff.

Ian M
09-12-2011, 09:02 PM
Mine packed up earlier this year and as money was tight I bought a bare bones bundle and put my drives in it for less than 150 its the second one I've had the last one lasted over 6years most of the time in a blasting workshop. http://www.novatech.co.uk/barebonebundles/

Reg, I have looked at a barebones one & it started at £200 but as we started to add bits on it was soon upto £350 & then was near the power of the Advent one.

Ian M
09-12-2011, 09:04 PM
pretty good for the price , fast processer a terabyte of storage 4 gig ram cant fault it

Just what I was thinking Brett & on top of that you can add more RAM if you want or need too.

Ian M
09-12-2011, 09:06 PM
I'm an AMD fan but if I was looking at Intel again I'd want to get a better CPU I think. That said, for the money it looks fine. Not keen on badged PC's as you get so much more for your money if you build yourself. I see the cost of hard drives rocketed recently so if you start to break it down you're certainly getting your moneys worth :-)

Only seems to have VGA output?

As already mentioned, eBuyer well worth checking out, I was looking there recently and they had some good entry level stuff.

Must admit Justin that I'm just a little lost these days when it comes to CPU's. I only need a VGA output just for my monitor but, thanks for the advice.

JSR
09-12-2011, 11:42 PM
need something that is fairly powerful to use for everything I do
No point me chiming in then :wink:, I've been happily using my netbook for over 3 years now. Got a duplicate model refurb for about £150 last year because I liked it so much... But everyone knows you can't do anything on a netbook. :redface: