amazing! :)

LOL! That was hilarious. At least he's enjoying retirement.

graphics cards are simple to instal. it like click it in put one screw in and away you go. its the same as putting a new memory stick in and in fact you dont have to be as delicate as you do with memory.

Maybe he just looks like that for the role he was playing in that video?

thnx for the advice guys :-)

thnk I'll stick to what I got til it actually breaks, it still plays STO quite well. I'll just make sure my files are backed up incase it dies.

I can just about install mroe ram, i dont wanna mess with the graphics card myself incase I fuck it up.

Respect to you guys who can just buy components and put em together lol

have you lined the scan machine up next to the dell machine? the scan is more pricey and the components are not even close to the dell one in my opinion. like i said tyo him hes beetter to custom build but make sure who ever builds it knows exactly what they are doing. With dell at least you have a real good cust service to fall back on. my parters lap top went funny and they just replaced it and my mum's machine had a problem (which i think definatly was her fault) 3 weeks out of servide and theyy just fixed it foc. yes youy pay a bit more but no where near as much as others. I prioced the components of a few respectable sites and all in told if you built it yourself youd save just over 140 quid which when its peace of mind build delivered to your door........ End of the day capt its down to what you want personaly. The other alternative is parts on ebay.

dudes I wouldnt know where to start building a PC lol

Don't buy a ready made machine, unless it's a pre-built from scan.co.uk

My Sister (Caephyn) is right, Dell and certainly PCWorld are rip offs for what you get.

Alternatively, buy a new GFX card from Scan or Aria, they're the cheapest sites in the UK I've found. Installing stuff is a helluva lot easier than you'd think. I built my machine recently and I've enver even owned a PC, let alone upgraded one before. If ya need tips let me know ;)

Ouch! Hell no don't buy anything from PCWorld! I tend to recommend eBuyer, Overclockers or Dabs. And *if* you go for a full upgrade, it's worth the bother of building it yourself for the cash you save doing so. The hardest bits are seating the CPU/heatsink properly, and making sure you plug in all the cables into the right slots. But on the whole, it's honestly pretty easy when you take it one step at a time.

I'm running a GTX 460 at 1080p atm and never have any problems with anything, so anything above that and you'll be fine. Check out PCGamer for some good recommendations. x

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you gonna come and install it for me :-P

I like Dell. Maybe I need to source something from the manufacturers website PC World is a bit of a rip off

I'd go for a custom built machine such as: http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ConfigureSystem.asp?SystemID=1164

Or:
http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ConfigureSystem.asp?SystemID=1048

Alternatively the rest of your spec seems ok is simple enough to replace a graphics card with something like:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-gigabyte-gtx-560-ti-oc-40nm-4000mhz-gddr5-gpu-900mhz-shader-1800mhz-384-cores-dvi-mhdmi

Or slightly cheaper if you prefer AMD a similar performance card:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-gigabyte-hd-6870-oc-4200mhz-gddr5-gpu-915mhz-1120-stream-processors-dl-dvi-i-hdmi-mini-dp

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/studio-xps-7100/pd?oc=d00sx704&model_id=studio-xps-7100
i think this is better

althouth this is more money its more geared for hard gaming.


http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-8300/pd?oc=d00x8316&model_id=xps-8300

its more money but if it was me id proly go for the first one

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Wow, that was a great journey...man, that went on for lightyears! Hope you had fun doing it. I know I participated some on the way. I wasn't a hardcore follower, but I was like some of the people in Forrest Gump who'd run with him for a while, quit, then run with him again when he came back through that part of the country. I'm ready to see where your next journeys take the fleet.

Haha, thanks! I am definitely looking forward to DS9

Wow, that was a great journey...man, that went on for lightyears! Hope you had fun doing it. I know I participated some on the way. I wasn't a hardcore follower, but I was like some of the people in Forrest Gump who'd run with him for a while, quit, then run with him again when he came back through that part of the country. I'm ready to see where your next journeys take the fleet.

3 to add today.

Deffo my graphics card lol im not much better than a laptop when I compare against the top ten lol

Is this PC any good do ya think?

make sure to select the right operating system especialy 32 /64 bit

say whaaaa?

link fail

have you benchtested your machine

http://passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm

will prtobably tell you where your fault is. when you say nyou hear or your drive?

I just ran it for a laugh and compared it to the machines on there and beat it hands down all over. hehe

http://passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm

I posted wrong link lol