New PC Advise #2

Cane wrote:

build it yourself.

http://www.aria.co.uk/custombuilder/body.asp
Or I can do it for you for a small fee...

 

Whats his budget and requirements? Peeeeersonally I build all my own
machines, its dead easy these days. If he wants a prebuilt machine for
serious work he should look towards Boxx (www.boxxtech.com i think)

For a decent machine that will also play game, try these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/full_systems.html

 

Budget - he's looking at Alienware.
Requirements - a higher framerate than anyone else.

 

Be tempted. I've managed to stay in business this long without a single
moan about the stuff I've built. I'm not the cheapest, but last time I
wnet head to head with Dell, I was 25% cheaper for a better (IMO) machine.


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I can confirm that Mr Catman is very good at fixing other people's
crappily made PCs so that they work properly. He also met all the
deadlines, kept me informed of progress and didn't cost too much.

Make what you will of that recommendation.

 

Ewwww, no. RF is the way to go.

Yep. Email?
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Sure it's not just that shite XP Home that's doing it? I've come across
quite a few home systems with that on, running like old shite machines.

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I'd be interested to know if either of those are faster than XP home;
after you've had it on a while and isn't a brand new install, obviously.

 

I'm not, but the BiL has a fried PSU.

Melted wiring, smoke, the whole doings.

Any 350W PSU from dabs will do, yes?
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It just doesn't run very well on some machines; mind you, the ones I
recall were mostly Packard Bell - so no surprise there, then.

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I just priced up a build it myself full system for a friend inc. 17" CRT
monitor; 2700 Athlon; 512Mb RAM; 80Gb HDD; DVD and XP home for £370 inc
VAT.

Unless I'm not looking in the right places I couldn't see anything
similar off the shelf.

 

XP Home and XP Pro are an identical codebase - the only difference
between the two is the authentication methods provided. So there should
be *absolutely* no difference between the speeds of the two.

Unless (of course) you are running XP Pro on a dodgy network talking to
a flaky domain controller that doesn't answer auth queries half the
time. That'll make it run incredibly slowly..

Phil

 

That's not too bad a price for the spec. Don't need a screen tho -
gonna drive the TV with it.

 

That's a very good price for the spec. What the quality of the build is
like is another issue entirely, as is the brand of components used. Big
box as well.
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We've just bought a full system from Dell. 17" CRT monitor; 2400 Duron
(or whatever it is); 128MB RAM; 40GB HDD; DVD and XP Home for 309 quid
inc. VAT, delivered.

I bought a system a couple of months ago. 2400 Duron (owis); 256MB RAM;
80GB HDD; Firewire; GigE; DVD and XP Home for 340 quid inc. VAT,
delivered. Picked up another half a gig of RAM from Scan for something
like 50 quid (iirc, which I probably don't.)

Full warranty, etc.

 

There are plenty of other differences, not least that XP Home doesn't
have the NTBackup utility. Bit of a fucker, that.

 

The components, build quality and box size are all reasons I wouldn't
buy it.

 

or IIS, unless anyone here knows of a hack.

 

I didn't think that XP Pro had IIS either. But I have been known to be
wrong.

Especially when there appears to be somebody trying to hammer a rusty
spike through my brain. Or at least that's what it feels like.

Phil