Hi

Saga continues.
Friend now wants someone to build the comp for him for the VAT receipt.

Which base unit should he choose?

1.Is £633 delivered and from Watford Computers .

Better quality products with Venice core, SLI MB and s939 PCIE technology,plus a nice Sonata case.

Processor AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket939 Venice
Motherboard MSI K8N SLI Platinum Socket939 ATX
Memory 1GB PC3200 DDR RAM
Case Sonata Black Tower PC Case with 380 Watt PSU
Hard Drive Seagate 200Gb 8Mb SATA
CD/DVD Drive NEC ND3520A Dual Layer Int IDE Black 16x DVDRW +/-
Graphic Card Gigabyte 128MB nVidia Geforce 6600GT PCI-Express Graphics with TV-Out and DVI
1Yr Warranty. Lots of the items have 3 -5 year gurantees though.


2. This one is £565 delivered, with poorer MB and case plus its also based on s754 technology. It has a 3700 processor though.

AMD64 Athlon 3700 S754 + 1Mb Cache CPU
ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 MB S754
Memory 1GB PC3200 DDR RAM
200GB Maxtor S-ATA 150 7,200RPM HDD
16x Sony Double-Layer DVD-RW
Sony Floppy drive
NVidia Chaintech 6600GT 128MB AGP Graphics Card
Bundle of the latest games
Ultimate gaming case + 450W PSU
3 Years warranty


Anyway just say which one youd pick if you would. Thanks.

personally the bottom one.

faster cpu
reasonable motherboard (asrock shouldnt be knocked :P)
cheaper price.

If you want a quiet PC with quality components - the top one

If you want maximum grunt for your cash - the bottom one. Bear in mind you won't be able to upgrade your processor any more without changing the motherboard in the second option (Although I've never let this bother me since I always get a new CPU/motherbaord anyway.)

go to www.ebuyer.co.uk

much cheaper, and sheffield based.

I'd go with the first one...

The 754 motherboard is going to be phased out for most new CPU's from AMD so it's upgradability is limited... MSI is a good motherboard supplier and the 939 has a lot more longevity...

All in all the whole price bracket isn't bad at all... You could do slightly better if you built your own but frankly if it comes with a guarantee that they can back up, you could do a lot worse...

The noise level aspect shouldn't be knocked either... It's a pretty good quality set of components all told...

Originally posted by Carl_Malibu
go to www.ebuyer.co.uk

much cheaper, and sheffield based.
No offense but it doesn't make a blind bit of difference that it's physically based in Sheffield... You can't get into the offices, there's no front desk and they treat everyone as national customers.. so there's no benefit there..

That said, there's a thread on eBuyer for more opinions... (including my own)

I've just built a base unit with pretty much the specs of top maching (though with a gigabyte rather than MSI MOBO and an ATI rather than Nvidia graphics card) for about £450 so you could try a self build???