Thread: looking to get a new desktop pc advice would be apreciated

hi all i am looking to get a new desktop pc my budget is £500 to £1000 but really trying to limit to £500 can any one recommend me a good dual core or quad core pc around my budget area please or be able to build me a pc with good specs on one of those online shops that allows you to select all your pc parts and pc case aswell any help on choosing a good new pc would be apreciated mostly want a pc for multimedia and watching high def movies and tv and listening to music dont play pc games much except for startrek online and world of warcraft
any advice and info would be apreciated
thanks

Hm, would you be willing to build it yourself? This would save you a lot of money, and it's really not that hard. Anyway a couple of those "select your parts" things, if you trust it, you can try ebay. Shipping from this may cause a problem. I've done this twice and they both arrived fine. (If you go this route, I'd suggest asking them to leave out the RAM and GPU, as these can bounce and snap off rather easily.)

As for those "custom" sites. These are a few I've never used but I have heard of people who used and were satisfied.

hxxp://www.ibuypower.com/
hxxp://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

If you choose to go the build it yourself route, I'd suggest using Newegg or TigerDirect. (or a mixture of both). Since you want HD playback I'd go with a quad-core, The AMD Phenom II's are great budget CPU's and perform very well for what they are worth. Intel will cost you much more but you do get that extra performance.

Originally Posted by PChambers

Hm, would you be willing to build it yourself? This would save you a lot of money, and it's really not that hard. Anyway a couple of those "select your parts" things, if you trust it, you can try ebay. Shipping from this may cause a problem. I've done this twice and they both arrived fine. (If you go this route, I'd suggest asking them to leave out the RAM and GPU, as these can bounce and snap off rather easily.)

As for those "custom" sites. These are a few I've never used but I have heard of people who used and were satisfied.

hxxp://www.ibuypower.com/
hxxp://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

If you choose to go the build it yourself route, I'd suggest using Newegg or TigerDirect. (or a mixture of both). Since you want HD playback I'd go with a quad-core, The AMD Phenom II's are great budget CPU's and perform very well for what they are worth. Intel will cost you much more but you do get that extra performance.

yeah i guess i would be willing to build it myself doesint seem to hard thanks for the advice apreciated i did find a pc on ebay quad core but not sure it be any good but that seller has sold alot of them the item number is
Item number:120486361402

i shall have a look at those sites those are in $ know of any uk sites?
thanks

Oh damn I forgot about that part, you're in the UK. I don't know any off hand, I'll try and get some info for ya tomorrow - I'll edit this post with an update tomorrow.

Please look around the forums before posting topics such as this which relate to computing in the appropriate section. This thread should have been created in Tiddle-Taddle > Computers. I do however understand how it could have been posted here mistakenly since "Tiddle-Taddle" is not all that clear. Thread moved to Computers, maybe Tiddle-Taddle ought to be renamed to something like "Chit-Chat" with a clearer description or just re-expanded to the way it was before.