I'm *not* affiliated with this site, I just found it while I was looking for some pre-built PCs for a friend, and thought I'd give people a head-up as they actually look pretty good.

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk


Most prebuilt gaming systems are either £3000 overpriced, SLI'd monsters or had their components picked by idiots, with things like 'with powerful Intel onboard graphics, you can enjoy the latest 3D games'. The uber-powerful ones are ridiculously priced, but they actually seem to know what they're doing with regards to low-end gaming machines and haven't stuck a pathetic graphics card in just to knock £100 off the price.

Nice find!

Wow , i really should give them some money in return for something that is not a ****ing notebook

I play lfs soon

Weeeeeeeeeee

*looks at oromucosal spray at bedside and realises its jam packed with ethanol*

Weeeeeeeee2

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*bookmarks page*

Thanks! This will come in useful for my dad.
I love the way they show the prices with VAT included, instead of you looking at a price you think is good, then noticing its says (£xxx.xx with VAT).

a note of caution here guys ......

I have bought 3 pcs from the US arm of cyberpower and am not very satisfied:

My current system from them is about 2 years old: Asus 5PN-D with E6850 3.0 GHz (oc'd @ 3.6 GHz), Coolermaster liquid cooled cpu, 8800GT, 3 GB ram, Raid 0 250 GB HDs, with TV tuner, wireless g adapter.

System works great now - can calc superpi mod to 1 million digits in 14.7 sec.

But when I received it, every card had been jarred out of their slots even the ram chips. Adapters with clips were even out of slots. Could be shipping but hard to see how. Then I had to be on the phone with them several times to get the system to recognize various components - USB, tuner etc. The CoolerMaster cooler was not properly filled with coolant. I ended up disassembling the entire cooler emptying and refilling with fresh coolant.

Also beware of parts selections - much of their less expensive setups are with discontinued parts (CoolerMaster liquid cpu cooler) or no-name generics (ram).

A few months ago, I gave them another chance and got 2 pcs for my sons. One eventually worked fine - after reinstalling half the hardware, but the other still does not work after replacing mobo and psu. I made the mistake of ordering both a wireless adapter card and IEEE card for the 2 PCI slots, but only 1 would fit because of the graphics card. So they sent a USB wireless stick instead - without consulting me.

You might have better luck than me, just be cautious selecting your components. At the US site anyway, they have many many options to select from but most are older, outdated, or no-name components. You can get newer brand name components but then the cost becomes closer to the big name pc companies.

Remember, you get what ya pay for ..... and be careful what ya ask for.