New PC required - any recommendations?

[VectraMan]

Something I read sometime ago:
DVD drive
motherboard with integrated graphics
power supply

These are/were none upgradable PC's, no adding second hard drives or upgrading the graphics card on them!

That sounds like one of those fancy funny shaped trendy PCs, not the boring grey squarish box design we all know and love.

The best thing I can say about Dell support is I've never had a reason to call them.

[Sysman]

The best thing I can say about Dell support is I've never had a reason to call them.

The only time I used them was when I was renting a spot for a contract and my landlord's PC needed fixing. Since I wanted the boiler fixing I kind of couldn't say no

It turned out that a Bob had been at the system, the speaker wiring too. The Dell support guy was so absolutely confident that a restore from the hidden partition plus rewiring the speakers myself would do the trick that I believed him. He was right.

Oh, the landlord suggested using the same Bob for my heating. Having seen how he'd mucked up the PC I decided to try again myself. No way was I letting him near my gas boiler.

For some reason, even after the PC cockup that landlord held Bob in high regard. Must have been a good salesman...

[xoggoth]

Although they seem to have some negative comments on net I have always found Mesh Computers good, support is ok too.

[SimonMac]

Although they seem to have some negative comments on net I have always found Mesh Computers good, support is ok too.

Steer well clear of Mesh, they went into Administration in June and are still under investigation fro trading while insolvent

[xoggoth]

Good lord! Just as well their spare bits are not very specialised and integrated like some larger makers.

[Dark Black]

Thanks guys for all the input

After doing more homework and getting up to speed to on the current technology I went for this:

"Titan Triceratop" Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System

plus upgraded RAM to 8GB, added a Crucial M4 SSD for the boot drive and splashed out on an Iiyama 24" monitor.

Loaded up the company credit card this morning - all in was £979 delivered, so a tad higher than I had intended but figured that the spec should keep the PC usable for a few years (my current main box is knocking on 11 years old from the same thinking at the time).

[palmgeo]

About time I got a new PC for the home office - aiming to spend approx 500 - 600 quid.

So not a gaming PC (for the office remember), mainly used for admin (email / office etc), software dev and able to cope well with virtual machine images.

Was tempted by the Dell Optiplex ranges but also seen some good reviews of Palicomp and ChillBlast boxes - anybody here have experience of them?

Hello Friend... Dell is simply the best. Don't think for anyother as much you think you get much confused. So go for DELL.

[Sysman]

I think we've got a new one.

I see what you mean

[gingerjedi]

After 2 failed orders (Mesh & Dino-PC mentioned earlier) I ordered the parts to build my own from Scan.co.uk as recommended on here.

All parts showed stock so why have I just had an email saying there's a delay due to lack of stock?? I give up, no wonder the country is going down the tubes when I keep failing to spend money despite my best efforts.

[stek]

After 2 failed orders (Mesh & Dino-PC mentioned earlier) I ordered the parts to build my own from Scan.co.uk as recommended on here.

All parts showed stock so why have I just had an email saying there's a delay due to lack of stock?? I give up, no wonder the country is going down the tubes when I keep failing to spend money despite my best efforts.

Being a Bolton lad I've visited chez Scan many time to order over the counter.

What happens is you queue up to order and pay, then u sit alongside paedos and porn freaks waiting for their 2gb gfx cards and eight TB's of storage and you wait and wait....

Staffed almost exclusively by Bobs you wait and wait. This applies also even if you've preordered...

Eventually you get your bits off a spotty Bob or you don't.

It's not far from the reebok, but let's not go there.....