New Computer.........what do you all think.

[Ian M]

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-dt ... 1-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]

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]

i think for its price look ok.

[Reg]

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]

pretty good for the price , fast processer a terabyte of storage 4 gig ram cant fault it

[JackB]

Have you had a look in their refurbished section: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/refurbish ... teria.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]

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]

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]

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]

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.