[Nottingham] Buying advice sought

[Aritra Dalal]

I would imagine this would purely depend on your current budget, although
building PCs yourself nowadays doesn't really save you that much. However,
it does give you the pleasure of satisfaction (subjective judgement
ofcourse).

So, what are your approximate budgets?


*Aritra Dalal M.Eng.*


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Graham Dicker <graham.dicker at antecor.com>wrote:

> I want to buy a new desktop PC and would like some advice on how to go
> about
> it please.
>
> The machine will be used at home as a general purpose computer but also as
> a
> Digital Audio Workstation (at a amateur level).
>
> I boot into Linux 99% of the time but there are occasions when I need to
> use
> Windows for example updating my satnav so I need to boot off of two
> separate
> hard drives (as I do at the moment).
>
> My current machine is a Pentium 4 3.20 GHz with XP on one drive and
> OpenSuse
> 12.2 on the other. A local PC repair shop built it for me about 3 years ago
> for £250 and the only problem till now has been with the case, which is
> badly
> designed and cramped so I have to e.g. remove the memory in order to fir a
> new
> hard drive.
> I use Ardour for recording and it works reasonably well although in order
> to
> achieve low latency I have to do things like disable my wireless network
> card,
> and shutdown a few other non-essential processes. It would be nice if I
> didn't
> have to do that with a new machine.
>
> So, I am thinking: PCWorld? Dell? Build it myself? Is everything 64 bit
> nowadays?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graham Dicker
>
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