This Week's Hot Purchases

[Kryten]

Thought it might be useful to start a thread we can all add to if we find any exceedingly good offers to benefit us all when shopping for hardware.

So:

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK) < 4gb ram PC5300 , £52.

OCZ 2GB DDR2 Memory - Cheap at Ebuyer! < 2gb OCZ PC6400 Ram, £35

"Ultima Extreme SLi 8800 GTX" Intel Core 2 Quadro QX9650 3.00GHz Quad Core SILENT DDR2 System < £2000 worth of high end gaming system for £430. Probably a mistake though

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache (2x4MB (4MB per core pair) Retail Boxed Processor - Ebuyer < Intel Q6600 G0 Stepping processor, £168. Not particularly fantastically priced in competition but worth a link anyway.

 

[GReaper]

"Ultima Extreme SLi 8800 GTX" Intel Core 2 Quadro QX9650 3.00GHz Quad Core SILENT DDR2 System < £2000 worth of high end gaming system for £430. Probably a mistake though

This one has spread through various forums like wildfire. Looks like they've cancelled all orders of these!

 

[Kryten]

Yeah, seems the price has gone up too.

I can still build the same spec system for 300 under their "new" price

 

[Chilly]

Yes, and that £300 margin is for building and supporting the system. And in fact its probably more like a £600 margin for them seeing as they get the bits wholesale

 

[Kryten]

True, it's a business but it's not entirely competitive.
But then again, there's not much to compete with. Dells XPS/Alienware brands maybe but they use muchly proprietary hardware which won't be competing with the likes of Asus, Abit etc for performance and reliability.

 

[Yaka]

isnt oc.uk actually 2 companies, one thats a distributor that only sells to oc.uk the other being oc.uk it self?

 

[Kryten]

Wouldn't suprise me, that's a very common (and very frowned upon) form of tax evasion.

 

[Yaka]

surprised they don't stop it from happening, i know someone that tried to setup a business selling pc gear etc, tried sevral listed distributors in the uk found many that were linked to well known sites and refused his application out right with no explanation, the few that did accept would only give him prices that ok.cuk/scan/dabs etc sell to consumers. in the end he just gave closed the place he rented to start up his buisness and is still paying rent for it

 

[Kryten]

Courtesy of Reza in the Bundles thread:

Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK < Core2Duo e8400 (45nm) £130

Been waiting for these to pop up, for those of us with the newer motherboards or in the market for a new system these are also great value for money.

 

[soze]

Courtesy of Reza in the Bundles thread:

Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK < Core2Duo e8400 (45nm) £130

Been waiting for these to pop up, for those of us with the newer motherboards or in the market for a new system these are also great value for money.

My E8400 arrives today I thnk i paid a bit more from Novatech £139 damn me buying when i see in stock

 

[ZoNeHeaD®]

wow !! a site where commerce dies. keep it pure lads

 

[Kryten]

wow !! a site where commerce dies. keep it pure lads

eh??

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor - Ebuyer - Q6600 G0 - £154 inc vat.

Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drive 16MB Cache - OEM - Ebuyer - 500gb Spinpoint drive, £59 inc vat.

Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK - ATI 3850 Graphics card, £117.50 inc VAT.

Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK - 2gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800, £40 inc VAT

20" Yuraku M2A Widescreen Monitor - Aria Technology - Crap but cheap 20" widescreen - £100 inc VAT.

 

[Kryten]

On top of the above, please bear in mind that due to product maturity and current manufacturing costs, it's unlikely we'll see much more of a price drop in DDR2 memory, so if you're looking to buy soon, my advice is buy now.

Keep an eye on DDR3 memory, we're getting more of a choice in X38/X48 based motherboards exclusive to DDR3 and hopefully within a couple of month's we'll be at the point where performance and price starts to level out and make it a worthy buy.

 

[Kryten]

Just a quicky, but a goody:

Inno3D 8800GT (G92) 512MB 256bit GDDR3 Dual DVI HDTVOut PCI-E Graphics card - Ebuyer

512mb Inno3D 8800GT, £144 inc vat.

I've got exactly this brand myself and I'm very impressed. Overclocks very well too, if that's what you're interested in

 

[Kryten]

20" Samsung Pebble widescreen monitor for £168:
Samsung SM2032BW 20"TFT Monitor Widescreen 1680x1050 3000:1 300cd/m2 2ms VGA/DVI-D Glossy Black 3 Years Warrany - Ebuyer

Slightly more budget: 20" Dabs Value Widescreen monitor, lots of happy folks at under £100
dabs.com - Dabs Value 20" Wide L-2041W 8ms LCD TFT (L-2041W)

Need a really cheap and basic full system? £117
AriaNet AMD 1100 PC System - Aria Technology
Good perhaps for someone who want's to build up as they go along!

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer £51:
Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

 

[Spudgun]

Hi All,

First post an all, I was going to buy the 512mb Inno3D 8800GT, £144 inc vat that Kryten mentioned above but the price has gone up on Ebuyers to £158.84 which is still good but I saw overclockers were doing this for slightly cheaper:

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £158.61 inc vat

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

 

[Trem]

Welcome Spudgun, awesome avatar

Might change my name to Little Dave Hedgehog.

 

[Kryten]

Nice find Spud.
Ditto, fellow Bottom fan here

(PS, Dave is great for this atm, they're going through all the live shows atm!)

 

[Kryten]

BigPockets.co.uk Blank Media, CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, DL+, Dual Layer, 8cm, Recordable Discs, Epson, HP, Cartridges, PCs, Laptops, DVD Cases, LCD HD TVs, Free Delivery

No single deal that sticks out but generally they're a great company getting more and more popular, and deservedly so - some cracking prices! Go take a look.

Started using them recently for blank media and memory cards and quite happy - useful that they take PayPal.

 

[MYstIC G]

Asus Eee - £187.94 inc. VAT

 

[dysfunction]

I'd be more tempted at buying this instead:

BigPockets.co.uk: Compaq N600C Intel Pentium 3 Mobile 1Ghz Laptop, 256, 20,CDRW/ DVD, Modem, NIC, WiFi, 14.1 TFT, XP Pro License £179.99 - Blank Media - Gadgets - Ink Cartridges - Free Delivery

 

[Kryten]

Dunno, I'd go for the Eee.
The N600's go for £100 on Ebay with those specs.
The fact they're dressing up that advert with "new" things like the Pentium M logo says it all - it's only a P3, the screens pressure mark like there's no tomorrow and the touchpads are awful.

I'm currently wading through a pallet with circa 800 of those machines (and N610's) and I hate the buggers

 

[Tilda]

I love my Eee, best 200 quid I ever spent. portable, fast, cheap, wireless, fantastic for just doing work on a train/bus/tube/at uni and 1000x easier to chuck in my rucksack than a normal sized laptop.

 

[Kryten]

Aye. I'd recommend them to anyone, especially for the price.
But for anyone shopping second hand, some laptops that may be worth a look are the Toshiba Portege R100 - as thin as the Macbook Air and far better kitted out, the Compaq Evo N400/410 - not as thing but very small anyway. These are all cheap as chips now as too many people just think they're better off buying off-the-shelf from Currys or PC World with some crap machines going new for 300 quid.

 

[dysfunction]

Aye. I'd recommend them to anyone, especially for the price.
But for anyone shopping second hand, some laptops that may be worth a look are the Toshiba Portege R100 - as thin as the Macbook Air and far better kitted out, the Compaq Evo N400/410 - not as thing but very small anyway. These are all cheap as chips now as too many people just think they're better off buying off-the-shelf from Currys or PC World with some crap machines going new for 300 quid.

Where can you get those Toshiba Portege's from?

 

[Kryten]

Ebay for the second hand centrino's naturally.

Found an R500 on their a little while ago. About 3mm thicker than an Air.
And has an optical drive!

 

[TdC]

Asus Eee - £187.94 inc. VAT

seriously considering getting a eee for teh girlfiend. you guys say it's ok?

edit and a quick question for you: it runs a linux...any idea if you have full access to the command prompt, and if you can install software. I'm thinking of using it as a terminal, but I'll need it to talk serial across the USB port to my adapter </nerd>

 

[Kryten]

With next to no extra hassle you can run a distribution of choice and even Windows on it, should you desire. Plenty of walkthroughs on the net, which is unsuprising, as these little machines are getting very, very popular indeed.

 

[TdC]

coolies. I'm pleased. Think I'll be getting one

 

[Kryten]

Not much really sticking out for me so far this week, other than perhaps:

Samsung HD753LJ 750GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm *32MB Cache* - OEM - Ebuyer - Seagate 750gb 32mb cache HDD, £89.99 inc VAT.