Cheapest place to buy PC's or Base units

[tri_94]

Hi there, anyone know the best place to get a resonable PC or base unit for a cheap price.

 

willing to look at refurbs, as i would like rekit two ICT suites for under 10k with 30 in each.

 

 

thanks

nick

 

spec would have to be better then a p4 3.0 as thats what i currently have.

[Haptic]

Hi there, anyone know the best place to get a resonable PC or base unit for a cheap price.

 

willing to look at refurbs, as i would like rekit two ICT suites for under 10k with 30 in each.

 

 

thanks

nick

 

spec would have to be better then a p4 3.0 as thats what i currently have.

 

have you tried,

 

ICT Direct - computer hardware for ict in education - primary, secondary, special needs schools and colleges

 

 

there a sponsor of these forums like ourselves:cool:

[gavins38]

Have you tried Ebuyer or Misco? Depending on what you're after you could pick up a cheap Atom based system for less than £200.

[Haptic]

Have you tried Ebuyer or Misco? A quick look on Ebuyer turned up a dual-core Athlon X2, 3GB RAM for £280.

 

arent they vista home premium or basic boxes ?

[gavins38]

arent they vista home premium or basic boxes ?

 

Didn't check the OS but misread the original request anyway, any more than £150 each machine wouldn't fit into the OP's budget.

[Crispin]

I must say if you're spending £150 a box it's probably not worth it. What are the spec's of the current PC's?

 

I wouldn't spend any less than £200 per machine if you want anything that's gonna have a lifespan. That's obviously not including peripherals.

 

Another thumbs up for ICT Direct aswell. We just purchased 5 fairly decent HP's for around £200

[Dom_]

Try here - MCS Technology Ltd

[laserblazer]

I'd say it was false economy you would have to be replacing them all again innext to no time. Going for good, hi-spec. machines will give you something that will last a lot longer and you would have decent warranties.

[cookie_monster]

Haven't used them for a while but they're certainly cheap

 

Web-Systems Online

[synaesthesia]

Bigpockets are great for refurbs - BigPockets.co.uk Blank Media, CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, DL+, Dual Layer, 8cm, Recordable Discs, Epson, HP, Cartridges, PCs, Laptops, DVD Cases, LCD HD TVs, Free Delivery

[localzuk]

How about ebay? 20x Lot Dell Precision 450 WS PC Computer Desktop XP on eBay (end time 28-Mar-10 00:24:23 GMT)

 

Dual xeon processors running at 2.8Ghz, combine with ram, hard disks etc... and you may have a good package there...

 

There are always plenty of job lots on there too

[Jamman960]

P4 3.0's aren't *that* bad surely? our IT suite is currently running similar machines fairly well although I am looking to replace them shortly I wouldn't consider it critical if we didn't have the budget - why not replace 1 suite now followed by the other next year? or are they starting to misbehave?

 

As above £10k for 60 machines is going to leave you in the same position 1-3 years down the line whereas you could get 30 reasonable and possibly new machines - we've recently built C2D 2.8's with 2gb ram for around £350 each as part of a club.

[dhicks]

i would like rekit two ICT suites for under 10k with 30 in each.

 

Don't bother, use your current machines as thin clients, invest in some decent servers - £10,000 should be plenty (although you could get some flat screen monitors if you haven't already - those are also available second hand in job lots).

 

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David Hicks

[Ric_]

(although you could get some flat screen monitors if you haven't already - those are also available second hand in job lots).

 

It's amazing how much quicker your PCs become when you change the monitors!

 

I'm another advocate of ICT Direct. I recently puchased some HP workstations (dual Xeon 3GHz-ish with 4GB RAM and decent graphics adapters) for well under £200 each.

[Guest Guest]

It's amazing how much quicker your PCs become when you change the monitors!

 

lmao So true.

 

We replaced some PCs last summer. We gave them new widescreen monitors, but as they are a worse brand (but bigger, better resolution etc) the PCs are "so much slower than the ones you took out". Funny that how we replaced p4 generation celerons with nice new Core2s

Edited February 28, 2010 by Guest

[marekbrad]

Another plus here for ICT Direct .. John is a top bloke and having now spent the last 12 months buying bits of kit from him.... I woiuld without a doubt reccomend his services

[john]

Can also highly recommend John @ ICT Direct had some great machines from him now

[bossman]

Having just spoken to an NM at a school near me I fear that going down a route of refurbished even with 2 years warranty is just false economy.

 

I have always purchased workstations with a 5 year onsite warranty and for the past 6 years the company has had its ups and downs but is now stronger than they have ever been since being taken over and managed properly and deliver a service which I find has been second to none.

 

They build in this country with Intel branded components but will also offer AMD chipsets if asked. I get the Neovo 17" hard glass front TFTs although they have had a little bad press but Neovo have been good about it and repair all our units free of charge at the moment as we have nearly 350.

 

We run Intel dual core with 4Gb Ram and they just fly and if we have any problems they are just a phone call away with a very helpful support team (not that I have had to use them that much). I got the units with Neovo TFTs Microsoft keyboards and mice 5 years onsite warranty for £320 all in. Some people may be able to get them cheaper I don't know, all I do know is my school has benefited from this companies prices and support. If anyone wants to know they can PM me as I don't think it wise for me to advertise on here without going through the proper channels.

 

All I wanted to say is that false economy never ever worked even short term.

[dhicks]

i would like rekit two ICT suites for under 10k with 30 in each.

 

You could, of course, see if you can buy 6 multipoint server machines for £1,600 each and use each to run 10 workstations.

 

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David Hicks

[maniac]

I'm still running older machines than that in parts of my school. We still have about 75 Dell GX60 machines which are 2.4 Celeron, but with a good well strealined build on them, they run very well. We also upped the RAM in all of them to 1GB from 512MB in August, this made a massive difference. We will probably keep them until they pack up completely, as they do what they need to and we have anther 20 in reserve to salvage for spares so they are zero cost to the school to keep.

 

Maybe an option for you is to buy better machines for one room, and just upgrade the machines in the second room for the time being. - P4 processors and suitable RAM are relatively cheap to obtain second hand - RAM is stil affordable new.

 

If it were me I'd rather have 1 great room and 1 older, rather than 2 middle of the road rooms, which is what you'll end up with if you buy within that budget - you'll really struggle to get decent reliable machines with only £150 to spend per machine in my opinion - £300 a machine and you'll get something reasonably good if you keep the existing monitors.

 

Saying that, I've ordered a couple of machines privately from this company before, they seemed to be very good - it's probably this sort of company you will end up buying from, as I'm pretty sure you won't get anything new for that money that's going to be any good.

 

refurbished and open box computer hardware Ex Demo | ITC Sales UK Store - Partner with Dell and HP

 

A quick look through, and it seems for around £150 a unit you can get a low end duel core machine with 2GB ram in, however you only get a 90day warranty with them and their stock seems very low at the moment - they normally have some with 100+ machines available, but most of them at the moment seem to only have 1 or 2 units available.

 

Mike.

Edited March 1, 2010 by maniac