Recommended PC Maker?

[stthrobber]

I am thinking seriously about replacing my ageing Mesh desktop PC and was going to give the order to Mesh, but having read some comments online about the company, I am dubious as it appears they went into administration last year, were bought out, but I cannot find a single positive comment about them.

 

I used to read a lot of complaints about Dell customer service, but I like the look of their machines and I've found 2 other companies, PC Specialist and Dino PC that appear to have fairly good feedback.

 

Can anyone recommend a decent manufacturer, or even say something good about Mesh more recent than September last year?

[Crab Lungs]

Overclockers? Novatech? Possibly Dell?

[stu0x]

Personally I would build it myself. You will always end up compromising somewhere along the line if you buy a pre-built machine, they will invariably be sold by 'headline' figures (ie processor, quantity of ram, quantity of hard disk space), and the company drops in sub-standard components where it can to make the margin - "1TB hard disk" means very little when you consider the performance gap between various hard disks, for example. It's a lot easier than you'd think, and once you've done one, you'll wonder why you ever paid anyone to do it for you.

 

If you really don't want to do it yourself, use one of the smaller 'enthusiast'-based companies (eg Novatech, Overclockers.co.uk) as you will have far more flexibility over specifying components, and you are far more likely to get an honest answer about whether component A represents better value than component B.

[stthrobber]

Personally I would build it myself. You will always end up compromising somewhere along the line if you buy a pre-built machine, they will invariably be sold by 'headline' figures (ie processor, quantity of ram, quantity of hard disk space), and the company drops in sub-standard components where it can to make the margin - "1TB hard disk" means very little when you consider the performance gap between various hard disks, for example. It's a lot easier than you'd think, and once you've done one, you'll wonder why you ever paid anyone to do it for you.

 

If you really don't want to do it yourself, use one of the smaller 'enthusiast'-based companies (eg Novatech, Overclockers.co.uk) as you will have far more flexibility over specifying components, and you are far more likely to get an honest answer about whether component A represents better value than component B.

 

Thanks for the advice, I didn't realise until now that we have a Novatech here in Cardiff