buying a pc, is this worth the price?

[cg010169]

I've been thinking of buying a new PC over the past few months and just came across this Pc from PC world.
What do you guys think? is it worth or can I get cheaper somewhere else. I'm not keen on making one myself as I'm hopless when it comes to doing computers.

website
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/085705

specs:

Intel Pentium 4 650 Processor

3.4GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2Mb Cache

2048MB DDR RAM

360GB Hard Disk Drive

M-F Dual Layer DVD-RW / DVD-ROM Drives

256MB ATI Radeon X600 Graphics

4 USB connections

Wireless Keyboard + Mouse

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

19" TFT Flat Panel Monitor

PRICE £899


cheers

 

[nara]

is this worth the price?

Not really. Well specced in some areas, pretty poor in others. For example, the 256mb ATI graphics looks good until you look closely and see that it uses "256mb mb memory". This means no graphics card, it's inbuilt in the motherboard so your upgrade options are zero (no PCIe or AGP slots).

You could get better value by asking a small local business to do a build for you

 

[cg010169]

cheers for that fella, I want a pretty good graphics card as well. So I'm going to give that one a miss.
I will have a look around for some local business.

Cheers once again I was thinking of buying that tonight lol