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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  January 2006

  Well if you spend £££££ then you can get a Laptop that will play games better than some PC's, it's all down to components.
  
  If you can build one yourself, or know someone that can, then it's far cheaper to do this and buy all the parts and then assemble.
  
  Alienware are good, but they really arn't worth forking out all that cash when you could build one for cheaper!

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  January 2006

  The first system you listed is ok, some of the components are average, such as the power supply.
  
  The second system is Alienware, so fairly much designed to be a solid gaming system. If I were going to get that one though, I'd pay the extra and get the GTX card. I'd also consider going for the Enermax power supply.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  January 2006

  thanks for your comments
  others have told me also about building one but really i know so little about computers that i dont really think this is an option for me
  if you have any other ideas, let me know

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  January 2006

  flighty wrote:

  thanks for your comments
  others have told me also about building one but really i know so little about computers that i dont really think this is an option for me
  if you have any other ideas, let me know

  
  Building a computer is a nice idea, but to be honest today you can buy one that will have better build quality for the same price, if not less. Especially if you need a complete system including monitor and other bits.
  
  Companies like Alienware and www.overclockers.co.uk will sell you pre-built stuff with high quality components, and from certain place you will get support that you don't get if you build your own.
  
  My computer is a Mesh computer. They put together a good box for me, unfortunately I didn't get a PCI-E motherboard as they were only just coming out at the time.

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  Teh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix

  January 2006

  Go for the Alienware.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2006

  thanks so much for all your advice
  got another couple of options from looking at a few things... (as u can tell, i am terrible about making up my mind )
  
  DELL £1097
  Base: Intel® Viiv™ technology -Intel® Pentium® D 830 Dual Core(3.00GHz,800MHz,2x1MB)
  Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
  Memory: 1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz (2x512) Memory
  Monitor Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor
  Video Card: 128MB ATI Radeon® X600 SE graphics card
  Hard Drive: 250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst cache
  13-in-1 Media Card Reader, USB
  CD/DVD Drives: 8x max. DVD+/-RW Drive
  Sound Cards: Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED HD Audio
  Standard Warranty 1-Year Collect and Return service
  
  not sure about the graphics card.
  
  MESH £1068
  Matrix² Prestige (03)
  AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ with HT Tech.
  Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
  Midi-Tower ATX Case +550W PSU -Black/Silver
  ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe PCI-Express Mainboard - ATX
  1024MB DDR400 Memory - PC3200 (2x512)
  250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
  SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-Re-Writable +R/-R/RW
  256MB nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT - TV-Out + DVI - PCI-Express
  19" TFT Flat Panel Monitor - DVI & Analogue
  7.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio (on-board)
  1.44MB - 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
  Internal 15-in-1 Memory Card Reader
  Classic Warranty - 3 Years Back-to-Base - Parts & Labour
  
  but i heard people have had a lot of problems with service from Mesh..
  
  EVESHAM £1202
  AMD Athlon 64x2 processor 3800+
  nVIDIA 4PCI express mainboard
  1GB dual channel DDR RAM (PC3200) 400MHz (2x512mb)
  200Gb SATA 7200rpm hard drive with 8Mb buffer
  256mb DDR nVIDIA 7800GT PCI express graphics card
  17" Viewsonic DVI TFT screen
  16x dual layer DVD re-writer
  
  bit more expensive but heard they are reliable company
  
  thanks again for any help

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2006

  Personally, if I was going to spend up to a grand on a PC, I wouldn't buy one 'off the shelf'. But then I'm able to buy and build my own. But if you have to, I wouldn't get it from Dell. They're fine if you want cheap and cheerfull, but I always feel they're high spec systems are overpriced.
  
  Are you shure you don't know anyone who can build you one? (or even a friend of a friend).

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2006

  flighty wrote:

  
  but i heard people have had a lot of problems with service from Mesh..

  
  
  It's not as great as it could be. Mine is a Mesh PC. When the dvd rom stopped, they got someone out fairly quickly, no problem. However, the web based help system can be a bit slow in response - not sure about the phone system.
  
  Also I'm not sure if my 6800 GT that they've given me is really a GT or not - it's not badged as it but does run at GT speeds, but I left it too long to get it replaced. I'd check out all your components when you get it.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2006

  flighty wrote:

  Although i would like to get a laptop because of space; people have said this is a bad idea as laptop is no good for games :S so i guess i need desktop.

  
  http://www.rockdirect.com/ have good some laptops if you want to spend alot.

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