Where to buy a desktop?

[Fred Bloggs]

+1 for Overclockers, good service and decent prices (although not always the cheapest). Never used their (or anyone else's) PC assembly service but i hear it's good. I prefer to make my own rigs including the water cooling bit

Big advantage for Overclockers is that you choose your spec, negotiate price matches on the components, they build the PC and give you a 3 year warranty all for the price of the parts. No supplement for the build or warranty. And the quality of the build is second to none, all wiring is very well routed, clipped and tied, no birds nests wiring inside the case. Highly recommended.

[DimPrawn]

A few to look at:

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/custom-pc/
https://www.chillblast.com/
https://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/

PS Dell suck and their webtulipe is terrible.

[LondonManc]

ebuyer is fine for bits and pieces but they don't do custom built PCs...

Ah fair enough, I've only bought an off the shelf laptop from them. Got it in 2009 and it's still going (and still on Windows XP!)

[Platypus]

Scan built me a very serious PC. Recommended. I got a whopping case and put two video cards in to support up to 4 monitors. Mind you, I've since sold it and got a Mac Mini

[sal]

+1 for Overclockers, good service and decent prices (although not always the cheapest). Never used their (or anyone else's) PC assembly service but i hear it's good. I prefer to make my own rigs including the water cooling bit

[eek]

I'll second scan and also nominate ebuyer.com

ebuyer is fine for bits and pieces but they don't do custom built PCs...

[LondonManc]

I'll second scan and also nominate ebuyer.com

[VectraMan]

Pretty pleased with my Novatech barebones system. A big range of options for cases, motherboards etc., and then you can buy SSD, OS and monitor separately and you've got the closest thing to what you want.

I would do that. In fact I did.

[eek]

And matching the same thread over at IPSE

www.scan.co.uk

Years ago I would also have said Kustom PCs who are a small company up in Ayr but I've not used them for years - they used to do Mini ITX stuff when no-one else did...

[cojak]

Overclockers

Some serious gamers there, and they opened up a store a couple of years ago, to let the geeks look at and touch the water-cooled widgets...

[Flubster]

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/pcs/

[Chuck]

I've used Dell for a good many years now, but their website is pretty much unusable these days. I don't want to buy what they're trying to sell, I want what I want to buy.

I want to buy a desktop, that I can spec.

I'm not a power gamer or anything like that, but I would like a pretty serious PC.

I do want a big monitor, at least 28" at 4k.

FWIW, my 5 year old laptop is an i7 with 16gb RAM with W7 Home Premuim. It's doing just fine. I guess more of the same please.