worth the cash?

[KermitTheFrag]

- p4 2.4GHz northwood 512k
- 512mb pc1066 rdram
- intel i850e board + intel pro 100 lan + 8x USB2
- 80gb 7200rpm 2mb cache disk (wd i think)
- 128mb Radeon 9700 pro
- 40x liteon cd writer
- keyboard, mouse
- windows xp pro
- 19" FD Trinitron monitor

£1527

good or bad price ?

[Geordie]

havent got a fast enough internet connection at work to do a quick price recon, but it seems on the dot..

[RocketKnight]

Is it second hand?
The list below is for the parts new from random online retailers that first popped into my head. Please remember that the prices are not necessarily the cheapest, simply the easiest to find:

- p4 2.4GHz northwood 512k - £175
- 512mb pc1066 rdram - £245
- intel i850e board + intel pro 100 lan + 8x USB2 - £100
- 80gb 7200rpm 2mb cache disk (wd i think) - £90
- 128mb Radeon 9700 pro - £275
- 40x liteon cd writer - £40
- keyboard, mouse - £15
- windows xp pro - £115
- 19" FD Trinitron monitor - £420

Total: £1475

[Gifted]

sounds like a pritty damn good price really!
(although i cant be arsed to check it properly)

were from?

[KermitTheFrag]

dell :)

looking at one as it's fairly high spec, and they do finance (i only have 800 quid to burn on a pc so it'll knock 800 quid off the repayments which are about 24 quid/month)

[Geordie]

the 2.8 northwood isnt 175

Pentium 4
2.8 GHz Boxed, PC533, 512 kb Northwood, Socket PGA478
GBP £324,42

alot more ;)

seems like a deal then..

[KermitTheFrag]

nah intel cuts prices regularly. 2.4 goes for about 190 oem ... *choke* old git = intel oem hmmmm

[Gifted]

go for it!


that pc will kick arse too... and dell systems always run sweeeeeeeeeet.

[Geordie]

but if you're gonna pay 24 quid a month over 800 quid, thats a very long term contract (2 n a half yrs?) for a computer that will be outdated in about 12 months,

[KermitTheFrag]

im running on a p3-500 at the moment - its fast enough for most things. i only intend upgrading every 2 years or so (apart from disks etc).

[KermitTheFrag]

edit: removing the cdrw and replacing with a black plextor 40x for less cash :D

[RocketKnight]

the 2.8 northwood isnt 175
I didn't say it was Geordie. I said the 2.4 costs £175. :rolleyes:

Kermit, you can't go wrong with a Dell. Before I knew enough to build my own computers, I bought Dell (or rather my dad did :p). They still work really well, on the same installation without format for like 2 and a half years now. No hardware failures or anything like that.

[KermitTheFrag]

im using one at the moment ;) thats whats making me think that they are good :)

[Eskimo]

stick an extra 120GB hdd in and itll be a fine lan machine :D


/some might say 4 extra 120 drives...

[KermitTheFrag]

i have no need for 120gb ... 80 will be hard enough to fill

[RocketKnight]

i have no need for 120gb ... 80 will be hard enough to fill
Famous last words...

[KermitTheFrag]

nah its true - i have 2 gig free on the 12 gig drive in my laptop and thats plenty

[Noodleman]

Originally posted by KermitTheFrag
- p4 2.4GHz northwood 512k
- 512mb pc1066 rdram
- intel i850e board + intel pro 100 lan + 8x USB2
- 80gb 7200rpm 2mb cache disk (wd i think)
- 128mb Radeon 9700 pro
- 40x liteon cd writer
- keyboard, mouse
- windows xp pro
- 19" FD Trinitron monitor

£1527

good or bad price ?


Bad price..

Although dell do have some good deals. They just became the new pc supplier for where I work because ibm & HP are being morons

[SupahFly]

Go buy today, and i'll see you in Newbury tomorrow. Sorted :)

Meet you in the car park? Say 9.00 -9.15? :D

[KermitTheFrag]

heh - takes 7 days for credit approval :( otherwise i would!!

Originally posted by Noodleman
Bad price..

Although dell do have some good deals. They just became the new pc supplier for where I work because ibm & HP are being morons

plan!

[Kenny2001]

I'm afraid I agree with noodles... The price aint that good.

Nothing in the system screams of needing to cost that much.

It is a decent system and Dell are a solid unit.

I wouldn't be paying that much for a PC. I reckon I could make a better one for that.

[HeMp]

/me reckons he could too ;)

soon ill be gettin a new box so when i decide what im gettin ill let u know the spec etc in any of the active "my dicks bigger than yours" threads :p:

[KermitTheFrag]

there are plenty of them to enter as per usual.

im not too worried about price. i just like quality bits and need to get it on credit as i don't have that much cash to burn. i also really can't be arsed with the hassle of dredging through review sites picking a selection of components that ain't going to work properly for the sake of entering my dicks bigger threads.

i just want to: develop .net apps, play a bit of ut2003, read my mail, manage personal finances and do the odd document like cv etc.

[Steadders]

Originally posted by KermitTheFrag
i have no need for 120gb ... 80 will be hard enough to fill

bah, i always say that, started with my second ever computer, with a 2.4 gig, then it was 6 gig, and my latest stupid move was when last year i got a new 1.2amd athlon with a 20 gig :P

only got 3 gig free, so i have to keep deleting games im not playing atm :P

[Kenny2001]

In my experience people who intend to get a PC on credit always spend more than someone who is shelling out hard earned cash (for the same product), so I will discontinue my futile attempt to advise you. You know the system is good and if you wanna get credit for it on the understanding that the 8GHz CPU's will be the standard by the time you finish paying for it, do it. Just don't look back afterwards.

It's virtually impossible to keep up with the dick measuring PC contest, as the only people who participate either rack up huge debts or are single and earn shedloads.

This thread has reached its conclusion now that you have made your position clear. Buy what you want, pay what you want, it's not like ne1 else 'actually' cares if they're honest neway. It's ur life and ur finance companies money.

Get ur PC be happy..... (as long as ur h/d can handle or ur bangin hardcore mp3's and games that take multi Gigabytes of space... B1942/UT etc..)

[Noodleman]

ROFL :D

[KermitTheFrag]

i resign...

[Stone - Jason]

Spam

[HeMp]

Kermit wrote

i just want to: develop .net apps, play a bit of ut2003, read my mail, manage personal finances and do the odd document like cv etc.

then WTF are you doing spending 1500 notes? :confused: :confused: :eek:

[KermitTheFrag]

Originally posted by HeMp
then WTF are you doing spending 1500 notes? :confused: :confused: :eek:

well .net development means SERIOUS commercial .net development i.e. running a 10 gig SQL server database with about 750,000 rows that needs full text search (hence the P4+RDRAM choice). It needs to be reliable (which means intel to anyone with any sense). Oh and the IDE is piss slow on anything below a 1.7 p4. Oh and also it has to recompress and generate thumbnails on the fly for the web app i'm doing for someone.

Everything is justified.

[Noodleman]

Originally posted by KermitTheFrag
Everything is justified.

Final last words.. Sounds just like a manager writing a budget. :D

[KermitTheFrag]

indeed. i am my own manager writing my own budget :)

[Hitori]

rar

go buy, then make a guest appearance at i14 k thx

cork

[KermitTheFrag]

ok purchased:-


Dell 8250 chassis
Intel P4-2.4 533bus
Intel i850E board (hyperthreading support)
512Mb PC1066 RDRAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128Mb
80Gb WD Caviar hard disk (std dell issue now! :) )
40x12x40x CDRW (Lite-on)
19" Dell Flat screen Trinitron


pain.

[Cheez]

Does this mean we may ACTUALLY see you at a lan? seeing as you havent attended an i-series since i10...

ooh btw. sorry about outbidding you on that pentium pro 200 mobo/processor/ram :D

[KermitTheFrag]

possibly ... possibly not - depends more on time really. The PC isn't just mine shall we say ;)

no probs with the ppro 200 ;) ... wk dont want to post it so i cant get it any other way :p: