best pc for £500

That looks more than adequate for what you've stated. You do realise though that this is only a base unit, no monitor, keyboard, mouse etc. And no operating system is included.
 
That and the 8gb ram will only be a benefit if you run a 64bit OS
 
I would wonder what I was getting from eBay - is it worth pricing the bits up and putting it together yourself? As mentioned, 4Gb is pretty useless unless you are going 64bit.

Chris
 
Black Alienware Case 148402 £18.71 Ebuyer
Asus P5QL Motherboard £55.67 LN25141
Intel Core2Duo E8400 139971 £114.24 Ebuyer
4GB OCZ Gold 1066mhz DDR2 149202 £44.48 Ebuyer
500GB Seagate 7200.11 £36.59 LN20181
Pioneer DVR-216DBK DVDRW Black £15.89 LN24454
896MB XFX GTX 260 Black 2300mhz 666mhz £196.26 LN25446
OCZ Stealth Stream 500W PSU 135159 £36.78 Ebuyer

I specced this with all decent branded quality bits and inc vat its about £596, again no monitor etc but you could easily drop the video card spec if you don't play games and bring it down £100+ and get a decent PC that will easily do Photoshop and Net etc
 
There's 3 choices:

1: Buy a desktop from Dell/HP/etc, but upgrade the memory/hard drive space afterwards - it's a lot cheaper!

2: Visit your local, independant PC store, tell them how much you're willing to spend, and what you want the PC to do

3: Buy the bits and build it yourself...

Unless you're happy scrabbling around in the guts of a PC, I'd suggest #2 as a first step.
 
I used to bulid my own PCs years ago but with the offers dell have on most of the time it's cheaper to buy from them, the price of the parts for my current PC added up to more than they were charging at the time and that was without adding an operating system .
 
I am always wary of Ebay and compter fair pre-built PC's. The stuff inside the box isnt always what you originally paid for.

Have a look at some of the computer stores as they have their own brand PC's which are normally pretty good. Microdirect.com are a company I get all my spares and bits from and they are normally good value. Scan and Ebuyer are other options worth checking out.
 
lmao, way to market your computer huh, list it as a 10.6Ghz PC because it's quad core :lol:

If you're not one for building machines yourself just buy a Dell. The Dell Studio that's £549 (third option from the left) should satisfies your needs assuming you're just buying as-is.
 
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