Where to buy a desktop?

[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.

[Flubster]

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

[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...

[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...

[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.

[LondonManc]

I'll second scan and also nominate ebuyer.com

[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...

[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

[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

[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!)