Is there anyone out there who can build me a PC? I don’t play games on my current computer but want to be able to copy and edit DVDs that I have so it still needs to be quite high spec and fast.

I am in Sheffield so if you can do this let me know.

Many Thanks

Adam

adamd@f2s.com

There is a user on here that does that sort of thing. Martin_S is the name..computer building is his game.
I'm sure there's a thread on here somewhere but I don't have time to search for it right now. Just find his name in the user list and pm him. I'm sure he could help you.

A personal recommendation - talk to user Martin_S - he's built one for me and it its a neat device (webshuttle MiniPC thing).

I gather he has more than one or two satisfied customers. My PC was hand delivered, all working in less than a week, everything installed and functioning correctly.

I haven't switched it off since I bought it apart from to tighten a few nuts to reduce a slight vibration (that made a bit of noise)

And it didn't cost me much more than if I had bought the parts myself.

If your going to use it for copying DVD's a lot I highly reccomend getting an IDE controller card and connecting 1 DVD reader, 1 DVD writer on one channel, and on the other channel a HD, anything above 20gb will be fine.

If you do that it isolates it from your system a lot, because copying DVD's is highly HD intensive, lots of reading and writing and it will make your system crawl if all that is going off on the same HD as your system is on ;)

I could build you a PC if you got the parts, but I've never built them for anyone but myself and family, so I wouldnt know what to charge and I have no reputation... so I'd stick with Martin_S probably ;) or find some good small shop to do it, I always hear good things about N2S systems on West Street, a lot of students get their systems done there I think...

To be honest though, I'm sure most people could build a PC, as it's not all that difficult, all the wires and conenctors are different so it's hard to plug something in wrong :P the only hard part is probably putting the heatsink on your processor and setting up your BIOS.

Originally posted by xafier
To be honest though, I'm sure most people could build a PC, as it's not all that difficult, all the wires and conenctors are different so it's hard to plug something in wrong :P the only hard part is probably putting the heatsink on your processor and setting up your BIOS.
Heh... if only the actual building of the PC was the main part... I've just spent the 6 hours putting together, adjusting and re-writing a specification for a machine that had a few little tricks in it..

Stuff like the reliability of high capacity hard drives or, sorting out a TV card that doesn't have major conflicts with major brand hardware... All really penickety stuff but enough to drive you slightly barmy.

Anyways... thanks for the recommendations and Adam if you'd like to send a PM my way I'll take a look at your specification (let me know a rough budget too) and get back to you.