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Hello, my friend is offering me an intel quad 750 oc'd to 3.6GHz, aftermarket cooler, Gigabyte UD3 1156 mobo, 3Gb triple channel RAM, Ati 4870 512mb graphics with silent cooler, 250Gb Seagate Barracuda hard drive. 3 month old acer 23" widescreen 5ms LCD @ 1680x1050 with windows 7 64bit RTM. No mouse or keyboard. Is this a good deal at this price? if not what should I be looking for instead around the same price mark? thanks for your opinions

Reply to MiniD011

and how much is he offering it to you for....

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Reply to Hellboy

And have you budgeted for replacing the OS in a months time?

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Reply to audiovoodoo

sorry totally forgot to mention its £450 including the monitor. And no I haven't given the OS a thought... Is Windows 7 really that bad?

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MiniD011 wrote :

sorry totally forgot to mention its £450 including the monitor. And no I haven't given the OS a thought... Is Windows 7 really that bad?

Who told you Windows 7 is bad..

Trust me compared to Windows Vista its a absolute dream....

Im enjoying every minute with it.

buy it...

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Message edited by Hellboy on 02-12-2010 at 09:09:26 PM

------------------------------ Do not buy Acer laptops period.

They are cheaply made products with cheap call centres with cheap service..

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MiniD011 wrote :

sorry totally forgot to mention its £450 including the monitor. And no I haven't given the OS a thought... Is Windows 7 really that bad?

No, by all accounts it's very very good! In your post you say it has the RTM version, this is not a paid for retail or OEM copy. MS have announced that they will be killing no registered copies, it's all over the net at the moment. Your friends installed a copy legitimately that was part of the testing phase, not the actual release, it's just that now it's past the time you should still be using it.

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Reply to audiovoodoo

I can supply you an original cracked copy via a friend in merseyside.

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Reply to Vokofpolisiekar

Weird - The i5 750 processor surely doesnt use motherboards which use 3Gb kits of triple channel memory. That sounds fishy.

Overall though I would say that 450 is a good price.

Reply to RickyT23

I'd have to agree with Ricky - either this friend of yours has got his information wrong or he's trying to blind you with numbers.

Socket 1156 motherboards ONLY use dual-channel memory so the RAM sounds suspect - you can do dual-channel 3GB with 2x1GB and 1x512MB but you don't usually see DDR3 kits come in 2x 512MB.

£450 isn't bad though if everything's above board, but you will need to buy Windows 7 - the RTM version is for testing only, and although it won't expire like the RC did it will need activating to be legal, and only developers and MSDN subscribers can legally activate it.

Reply to LePhuronn

if he is a good m8 go for it!

Reply to robin banks uk

It is too good for those users who are not well knowledge about intel quad 750 oc'd to 3.6GHzutilities which is mention above. You can get entire information which you want. Thank you

Reply to Anonymous

Pleasure.

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Reply to Vokofpolisiekar

Hellboy wrote :

Who told you Windows 7 is bad..

Trust me compared to Windows Vista its a absolute dream....

Im enjoying every minute with it.

buy it...

Say, do you work for MS? :sol:

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Reply to Vokofpolisiekar

Vokofpolisiekar wrote :

Say, do you work for MS? :sol:

nah, just glad to get rid of that crappy vista..

Wish i did i just serve its mis conceptions and security holes

Reply to Hellboy

I think we should petition for Wingding to work at Microsoft, they'd secure their holes pretty darn quickly then

Reply to audiovoodoo

Yeah watch out.. Winding and his tooth pick are on the prowl

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