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Desktop for €600

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  • 02-03-2013 1:59am
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    Lord Spence
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    Any suggestion on a good desktop pc for a budget limit of €600


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    Torqay
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    Can you tell us something about your requirements?


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    Lord Spence
    Registered Users Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭Lord Spence


    Torqay wrote: »
    Can you tell us something about your requirements?

    No requirements just the best specs I can get for that money

    Saw an acer desktop which had 3ghz core I5, 12gb ram DDR 3, 2tb HDD, 1gb nvidea gpu built in WLAN and bt, all for just under 600 on amazon, seems pretty good to me


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    theteal
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    if your budget doesn't include a screen, you could get a very handy i5 3750k based machine with a 7850 for €600 - and have a bit of fun building. talk to lads in building and upgrading, they'll set you right


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Lord Spence wrote: »
    No requirements just the best specs I can get for that money

    Saw an acer desktop which had 3ghz core I5, 12gb ram DDR 3, 2tb HDD, 1gb nvidea gpu built in WLAN and bt, all for just under 600 on amazon, seems pretty good to me

    That Acer is probably avertised as a "multimedia machine". As it is often the case with such computers, some components are OK, others crap or even superfluous. Personally, I wouldn't buy it for 600 yoyos because for that kinda money, I'll get a Core i7.

    1 GB Nvidia GPU is relative, this can be anything from a GT 610 to a GT 650. Question is, do you want to play games? If so, then none of these will really cut it. If you're not into gaming at all then you wouldn't need a dedicated GPU and better spend the money elsewhere (on a faster processor or a solid state disk, for example).


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