£500.00 for PC

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2011/10/26 15:39:43 (permalink)

£500.00 for PC

Hello,

Can anyone point me where i can get a decent-ish PC for £500.00 in the UK That will be capable of running Sonar Producer/X1 with lots of plug ins running at one time!

As  my current PC  i load up 4 Instruments as soon as i use plugins of certain types aka the good ones it spikes.......

thanks,

Chris

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    Jonbouy
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    Re:£500.00 for PC 2011/10/26 21:49:50 (permalink)
    I recently got one of these for £500.  There's a good range of sub £500 machines there to choose from.  The i5 2600k there at £409 is a good buy also.

    Great service from the builder although don't expect next day turnaround as he builds to order, and he really knows what components to put together to make a good system.

    A few DAW specific tweaks to the OS and she now runs runs as sweet as a nut.

    I'd use the same firm again as they came out around the same price as my costings for a one off self build.  Plus I got a years RTB warranty on the finished machine which I wouldn't have had going the DIY route.


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    Re:£500.00 for PC 2011/10/26 23:15:18 (permalink)
    chops it depends on what you can re-use e.g. the hard drive / screen etc. a p4 is getting on a bit if you chuck some cpu hungry plugs at it.

    Last desktop I bought was a prebuilt was a nightmare for space inside amongst other things.. so I went back to making my own.. but they do ready mades also.

    http://www.ebuyer.com/

    are decent for parts.. one of their main rivals who I won't mention for legal reasons had  customer service was beyond rubbish.

    I would say get a minimum of an i5 cpu though and stick with an intel cpu.






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    chops2010
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    Re:£500.00 for PC 2011/10/27 12:46:25 (permalink)
    Thanks for the info !

    I found a local guy who can work with an old tower and upgrade it to i7 as i have sound card etc.

    Thanks for the advice though!

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    Re:£500.00 for PC 2011/10/27 13:39:38 (permalink)
    Fog

    http://www.ebuyer.com/

    are decent for parts..

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