Thread: Buying / building a new PC- opinions?

I usually just go to my local pc swapmeet where you csn buy an upgrade kit with cpu/mboard/ram and then your choice of graphics card etc.
I'd still chose a normal hdd of about 2tb in size, happy with win7 but 10 is almost out.

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Linux has become a lot more user friendly in the last decade. None of the pensioners on whose machines I have installed it find it difficult to adapt to.

On a machine that is a mere 4 years old, there are versions of Linux that will run at impressive speed.

It will cost you nothing to download a couple of the popular distros and run them from a USB to see how they perform.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

I usually just go to my local pc swapmeet where you csn buy an upgrade kit with cpu/mboard/ram and then your choice of graphics card etc.
I'd still chose a normal hdd of about 2tb in size, happy with win7 but 10 is almost out.

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Have I been under a rock that long that I've missed Windows 9?
I'm not aware of any computer fairs or swap meet events up my way, but I've been to the Newcastle event in the past. Always good range and advice.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Linux has become a lot more user friendly in the last decade. None of the pensioners on whose machines I have installed it find it difficult to adapt to.

On a machine that is a mere 4 years old, there are versions of Linux that will run at impressive speed.

It will cost you nothing to download a couple of the popular distros and run them from a USB to see how they perform.

I neglected to mention (partially out of shame ) that the old pc was an aldi one.
I've got some underlying issues I need to rectify before I load up another OS, mainly driver and network adapter related. I actually ran debian linux on an old Pentium 3 which worked great for general computing. I was rather surprised all those years ago how smoothly it ran on a resource constrained machine. A bit of a learning curve to start with but interesting nonetheless.

I looked at some of the dell offers, seems like an Intel i7 based box with 16gb ram is going for the 1100 Mark. Can anyone advise if there is anything to watch out for going this way? Being a business machine, and having the backup service that dell offers its a good selling point. Just not sure how this may handle future upgrades?

Originally Posted by vnx205

Linux has become a lot more user friendly in the last decade

I'm certainly no expert on the subject. But not long ago have one build to my specs after doing a bit of research. Mainly used for internet / accounting / word proccessing / emails.

125 gb SSD ( should have gone 250 gb )
1 tb HDD
16 gb ram
2 gb dedicated graphics card
DVD burner X 2
Running Windows 7

Think thats it . Very happy

The Dell systems are nice, generally reliable, well packaged and priced. The problems start when the warranty expires and you can't easily get parts as often the MB and PSU are custom. There are sites that let you build up a PC and price the parts for you. eg. Pick Parts, Build Your PC, Compare and Share - PCPartPicker Australia

I recently tried Linux versions on an EEEPC I was given , which I added memory to.
It runs slowly on Win 7 which it came with , so I thought I would try Linux.

The first version which had a pretty good screen appearance ran just as slowly as Win 7 IMHO.

I tried one which was supposed to take few resources, but the screen interface was so basic it was a PITA.
So I went back to Win 7.
I hardly use the thing as I find an old Ipad1 is a much better thing to use when mobile.
Regards Philip A

What do you want the beige box( do they even make beige ones anymore?) to do?
everything?
play (and I hate this phrase) next gen games?
thats where the money comes in,
just surfing the net and accounting can be done on anything sold today.

Pick a $$ point and start surfing.

or do your research on current GPU's Everything comes from your GPU choice.