I'm looking into buying this PC because of the flexible payment option of so much per month. It all costs £1216.75 which works out £33.77 per month for 36 months, which is great because I'm shit at saving. I'm looking for people to give opinions on what to change and how I could save money if and when possible. @Nomy
Aight, you may not like my opinion cause it's not gonna save you money in the short run, but it will defo save you money in the long run. 1. Without SSD your pc is way overkill for your hard drive, you wanna get SSD to boost your performance, but obviously you can do this later assuming you cba to format your computer. 2. Get a better power supply, your graphics card will be wayyyy outdated in a couple years, what you wanna do is have a good power supply so you can buy another card of the same variety rather than upgrading your card to a newer one. 3. Asus ain't great, but since you haven't been given an option I guess u got no choice really, but I would recommend gigabyte anyday. 4. I'd recommend windows 7 instead of windows 8 but I know no one will listen to me and everyone will get mad at me, cus apparently windows 8 is now better than it was on launch (BS if you ask me). Either way if it was my PC no way i'd get windows 8. 5. If you can I'd really recommend getting a better CPU, that one is gonna get old and fast. But I understand that 99 pounds is a lot to spend, so up to you.
These options are constantly changing, I'm looking around £2000 so I will look at SSD and other alternatives.
You are looking around 2k and you want it pre-assembled? Why not build it yourself? There are like 1k videos on youtube showing people building PCs.
Does it really change the price that much? Pretty sure they just assemble it for you for free assuming you buy all the parts from them. (At least that's how it was like to me when I bought my computer, if I had just bought the parts separately would've cost the same o.O)
There is more flexibility in term of choice when you build it yourself. And ofcourse they charge your for building... otherwise I don't see the reason for them to waste time if they don't get paid for it. I think they charge about 150 to 200 pounds per pre-build for the assembling of PC.
Nomy, you're forgetting warranty, 5 year warranty is no joke, if you get faulty parts or if you fucked the parts up by plugging them incorrectly etc etc etc. For instance, my computer, I went tos, to one that works with the pc. There can be alot of those issues and building your own pc is a LOT of work, putting the fans and plugging things to the moth the computer store and asked for specific parts in my pre-built pc, I asked for a specific ram and a specific motherboard, and apparently, even though nobody was expecting it they didn't work together, so they switched out my ram, no chargeerboard can be tricky, while it's true that a "professional" might do a sloppy job, at least he knows what you're doing and you're warranted, videos out there might be very informative, but I dunno if it's enough.
Yeah the main reason I'm looking at the site is because I can't save money, I'm bad with my money. I waste it on cap.
Yea I considered doing this myself but I can't guarentee having enough money for the fixed payments. It's nice that it will only take you 3 years to payoff because the computer will most likely be powerful enough to run the new games to a high standard.
Yeah, I will still upgrade during the 3 years. I'm not fussed about that. --- Double Post Merged, Jul 29, 2014, Original Post Date: Jul 29, 2014 --- Signed the contract, my life is now over. Can't wait to get my new PC
You might have to upgrade your PSU along the way (as well as add SSD and in the really far future buy another graphics card) but overall this rig is amazing.
I think 600w is enough and graphics card is good enough too, I wouldnt mind keeping it throughout the 3 year contract. SSD is an upgrade tho, yet still I manage to be one of the 1st to enter in a game server with my 1TB 7200 rph harddrive. xD But if you are looking at overall performance including windows, start up, etc then SSD is worth getting but I still think their prices are a bit ridiculous..