Not really very technical but...

[DaveB]

Can anyone recommend a good deal for a new PC. It's for my sons birthday to replace the old Dell P3 500 he's been lumbered with for the last 2 years.

I'm a bit out of touch with PC hardware these days so any sensible suggestions would be welcomed. Silly ones will be ignored or ridiculed as appriopriate.

Purpose : School work, internet, games, music. ( almost certainly not in that order, but one can hope. )

Budget : £500.

[MrsGoof]

What about somethiing like this
Plenty of RAM , DVD Writer,but yo may need to invest in a graphics card for those games, NVidia 6600gt are good and cheap these days.

[TheMonkey]

Grab a Dell on offer on their web site - they do the job.

[TheMonkey]

Purpose : School work, internet, games, music. ( almost certainly not in that order, but one can hope. )

Let's get priorities right:

1. Bittorrent
2. Unreal Tournament
3. Porn
4. MSN Messenger / IRC
5. Browsing crap

The internet has no other purpose

[Fleetwood]

Surely "posting tulipe on CUK" is in first position?

[TheMonkey]

Surely "posting tulipe on CUK" is in first position?

Not for "sons" it isn't. Bittorrent and Porn probably if they are teenage.

[hyperD]

Let's get priorities right:

1. Bittorrent
2. Unreal Tournament
3. Porn
4. MSN Messenger / IRC
5. Browsing crap

The internet has no other purpose

Heh heh heh! Definately agree with that TheMonkey. Are you an Onslaught man or a DeathMatch man?