For those lifers considered to be clued up in the art of "computing" I was hoping for some advice..
I'm in the market for a new desktop computer, I will be using it for word documents, Internet browsing and some hardcore football manager playing.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I should be looking at getting? I have no idea about how processors etc work..
Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you.
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Not that you should follow my advice, but I've always bought my PCs from Dell and they have an outlet store that saves you a lot of money if you are happy with a computer that might have been returned for some obscure reason (not faulty) and might have the odd scratch or dent. However, you might find that they only have expensive machines - all be it they will be discounted.
You can browse their computers here:
http://www.dell.com/learn/uk/en/ukdfh1/campaigns/splitter
If you are looking for a computer and don't, already, have a monitor you might find that a low end laptop will be cheaper.
I lobbed in some new Crucial RAM (their system scanner tells you what's compatible), a new larger hard drive and loaded up Linux Mint as an operating system. Changing over the hardware was easy peasy even for a wombat like me and the machine has been trouble free ever since. (Touches some wood!) So saved the cost of a new machine for a few years anyway. And it was quite good fun and satisfying when it powered back up.
You get some serious bang for your buck from these boys...
https://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/moreinfo/about/
Used them for donkeys years, swear by them.
For FM you want a fairly decent clocked processor & an Solid State Drive instead of a Hard Drive.
You don't need to but makes it much much better when your playing a game with over 140,000 players.
SSD will make the system boot much faster as well.
I'll build you a superb machine for £450
SSD?
Is this dell place the best place to get a desktop?
A traditional spinning disk will read information at approximately 100mb/s. An SSD will read at about 500mb/s. Imagine how much faster a pc is if it can access information that quickly, rather than having all the other components waiting for the hard drive to do its job.
SSD is a given nowadays anyway tbh.
Being a pc gamer is more of a hobby than console gaming as not only are you buying the latest games but every so often you'd need to upgrade RAM, then maybe your graphics card and other compatible components
It just depends on how "hardcore" you want to go, you can buy a high end gaming machine and can last you a long time with no upgrades, but eventually the technology will surpass your computer and you'd need another expensive machine. So In that sense upgrading gradually makes more economic sense.
I'm a motion graphics artist/video editor and need similar machines. Even though we tend to use macs where I work. Not a lot can go wrong and when it does its apple's fault and every one else is having the same problem
I wouldn't recommend macs though for gaming as not many are playable on macs without installing windows on a portion of your hard drive
Would everyone else recommend a dell or something from the website @soapy_jones recommended?
If it's just for football manager then I wouldn't go ape shit on the graphics card, what other games do you play?
Basically, decide which operating system you prefer (Mac, Linux, or Windows) and will run the games, then get a new or up-to-date used machine with a decent processor and as much RAM as you can afford. Seeing as the days of £40 a Megabyte are long gone, you can generally afford to max out the RAM on most boxes these days.
On Ebuyer (a site I've used regularly), you can pick up a solid, affordable PC with a graphics card that will work just fine. This one (http://www.ebuyer.com/719686-zoostorm-gaming-pc-7260-5102) has lots of ram, a decent graphics card and an intel CPU with windows. But then again I don't know what your budget is.