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Im thinking about geting a new pc all opinions welcome what do you think of this pc dont know about the graphics card but i dont play games:shrug:

LKN:GBR-890300-001 Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T P3600 £549.00
Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T Chassis
Intel Pentium 3.6GHz Processor with Prescott 775 chipset HT technology and 1MB Cache
1024MB 400DDR Memory
2 x 200GB SATA Hard Drive
DVD-ROM
DVD-+RW Drive [48x24x48x16x16x4x16x4x]
256MB PCI e ATI RADEON X700SE 256MB ViVo DVI-I
11 in 1 MM Card Reader
Creative Audigy2 Sound System
Stereo speakers
Internal v90 Modem
Wireless LAN
USB2 ports, Firewire Port (IEEE1394)
Keyboard and mouse
Windows XP Home Edition
6 month Fujitsu warranty (on-site)

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If you dont play games, that will do you fine.

Why do they keep bundling A dvd reader *and* writer with all these premade pcs, does anyone know?

Hmm, but it doesnt seem to on the pic.
 
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I have owned a Fujitsu Siemens for the past three years
and have had no problems whatsoever.

Best put together computer I have ever owned - and I have had few since 1988!

Regards
 
Fujitsu siemens make the best computers. High quality parts and build.
My first notebook with be a fujitsu.

As for you want this pc, although you dont play games.
This pc should run many games better than fine. Plus it will be ready for vista when that comes out. To my eyes, its a good deal. My problem with fujitsu-siemens computers is that they attach a really small warranty.
 
Nooo, thats onsite warranty. Dont buy anymore, its electrical. Therefore its under warranty of 1 year under UK law, and 2 for EU law.

Dont be conned by these 'brilliant' warranty offers.
 
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the graphics card is bad and the CPU is worse...wait until July 23rd for conroe, netburst is finally dead
 
That graphics card is fine if you dont want to play games. Nothing wrong with the CPU either.

Yes, you could get a better machine for the price if you built it yourself, but not by much. For someone who doesnt want the hassle, its fine.
 
tridens said:
Hi
Im thinking about geting a new pc all opinions welcome what do you think of this pc dont know about the graphics card but i dont play games:shrug:

LKN:GBR-890300-001 Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T P3600 £549.00

if its value for money you are after, you should check out the DELL range, and save yourself £150.

its no coincidence that people like the BBC and MoD use Dell products exclusively.

however, if you intend to upgrade the components from time to time, then a 'vanilla' pc would be the best bet
 
The average user would not have anything to complain about I suppose with that system, however ...

For about £599 (IIRC) you can get a decent dual core AMD 3800+ X2 system. And as Jarman says it's all change this summer for Intel _and_ AMD processors. :)
 
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Don't know if this is any good to you, but food for thought all the same:

Dell UK have a fantastic deal on this Dimension 5150 desktop computer with a dual core processor and a E196FP 19" TFT, they are offering a free Dell Colour Printer 725 and a free McAfee software upgrade. The final price including delivery and VAT is just £499!

Specification:

Intel® Pentium® D Processor 820 (2.80GHz,800MHz fsb,2x1MB cache)
Windows® XP Home Edition
512MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz (2x256) Memory)
80GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache
16x DVD-ROM Drive
Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey Flat Panel Monitor
Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Integrated Audio with Dolby Digital 7.1 capability
Dell Entry Quietkey USB Keyboard
Dell USB 2 Button Wheel Mouse

www.dell.co.uk -> Dell Home Systems (Home) -> Shop By E-Value Code [101 - D06515a]

...and reduce the warranty to "No service upgrade selected - 1-Year Collect and Return service only [subtract £188.00]"
 
Hi Bob2002
if you dont mind whats happening in july with amd and pentium new processors not heard anything about that ive got around £500 £600 to spend
 
Its the new 'conroe' processors, supposedly a 20% increase over the AMD ones, and not too pricey. We will see on release.

On the other hand, AMD are supposedly countering this with their 'bulldozer' processors.

Personally, Id go for an AM2 system (the new format for AMDs), and you can pretty much stick whatever you want in there, be it a cheapy sempron, middle range venice, or an X2 (dual core) jobbie. As far as I know, bulldozer should fit into these sockets (the 940 pin).

Unless your number crunching, your never going to use a high end processor to its full potential. Any games will more likely get bottlenecked by your graphics card first.

Im only just starting to hit the limits of my venice 3000. Ive got up to 4000 to go, then its the dual cores if I need even more power!
 
im very happy with my opteron 165 overclocked at a whopping 2.9GHz. Thing is i wouldnt buy one if i was considering a new machine.

Anything with a pentium 4 in just avoid it. They take so much power, dissipate so much heat and give you so little in return.

Now is not the right time to buy with conroe being so close. People wont be able to give pentium 4 netburst chips away once the conroe is out. As for AMD lowering prices, at the moment 940 AM2 chips cost more than their 939 equivelants and actually run slower, but they do consume less power.
 
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Im wondering. Those machines that they use at the MET office to forecast the wather. Granted in their current state, they cannot play games. But imagine it was possible to hook up multiple graphics card to share their power towards this one machine. How good would games be on it? sub 1 sec loading times, in the most demanding games? Play multiple games at the same time all online?
 
by the looks of things the met office use a 386 to predict the weather.

If you look on TomsHardware socket AM2 sempron chips benchmark significantly lower than the 939 versions.

Although who is going to pay £150+ for a motherboard and put a sempron in it?
 
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