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Advice Please - New PC required - 22:15 08 Apr 08 I got home this evening to a dead PC

It's way overdue me getting a new one and it's no longer cheaper to build your own PC so I'm looking at buying a box! Trouble is I have never bought a whole box before and EVERYONE is selling them, I am totally lost where to go and what is good.

Can anyone recommend a company (or even a PC!)
Must have's...
- RAID 1 (mirroring of two drives)
- Windows XP (yeak)
- Preferably AMD instead of Intel
- Be medium spec (I have no need for the latest quad core but probably need better than a Celeron, 2GB RAM, 300GB HD (x2).
- Cheapish!?

Any recommendations at all!

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lemming

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 07:54 09 Apr 08 Dell. ! Skate Monkey !

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dogsbody

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 11:19 09 Apr 08 Dell don't do home machines with XP & RAID!

I could buy a business machine but they are blimmin expensive compared to the same home version. Saying that, my machine is on 24/7

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 11:34 09 Apr 08 Buy a business one - as they say you get what you pay for..and you use your computer probably more than any business

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 11:48 09 Apr 08 I'll ask my technically minded contacts for you DB... Any views or opinions expressed in these posts are those of the individual typing and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Kingol Corporation of International Badger Flingers and should probably be ignored. Unless they are in favour of Badger Flinging. We like that.

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 13:00 09 Apr 08 Novatech? Ths is a company just up the road from me, so abot an hour drive for you. My sons (who are computer geeks) buy from this company.

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dogsbody

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 15:57 09 Apr 08 Hmmm, I used to use Novatech all the time for components but I wonder what they are like for whole machines!? From now on I'm going to express all IP addresses in 192.0xa8.0020.235 form just to be awkward. - Twitter Status

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 17:10 09 Apr 08 I was asked today buy an old friend to ask my technically minded friends about buying a computer for a 1st time user. I thought m... Dogsbody, he is a computer genius, and here I find him enquiring about which one to buy for himself!!!

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 17:38 09 Apr 08 We bought my Dad's PC from Novatech - it was 6 years ago though.

It was their cheapest no-frills model. Very basic case and specification. It was reasonbly well put together and is still in use today. Some of the parts used were not that great - particularly the motherboard, but for how much we paid for it you can't complain!

Even though its not usually the cheapest way anymore, I'd still prefer to build myself if I could - that way you know exactly what you are getting inside. Pre-built machines sometimes cut corners with the parts you don't see.

I've always found the newer Dells we use at work pretty decent.

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Re:Advice Please - New PC required - 19:01 09 Apr 08 I'd recommend novatech too. I've never used them myself, but they've always semeed to deliver the goods to people I know... ! Skate Monkey !

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