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[Mr Skrunts]

Every now and again there is a thread reagrds laptops and upgrades.

Allways worth bookmarking pages like these for super deals.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Laptops/

Obviously if something catches your eye, dont take it as read that it's a bargain.  Do a search chack it out and see how it compares.

But if anyone see's a bargain then maybe it's worth adding it on to the thread.

 

[TheBoy]

Aria do have a bad reputation for messing up orders, then taking ages to admit a mistake and rectify.

I would be very cautious....

[Mr Skrunts]

Aria do have a bad reputation for messing up orders, then taking ages to admit a mistake and rectify.

I would be very cautious....

Point taken, they stuffed me arround a while back, they had introduced new sales software that was KaKa.

Had 4 orders since, even got delivery next day, so at the mo, all seems good.


Word of Warning for all people taking in deliveries.

Sign your name and printit, but also add the word UNCHECKED.  Use it with all courier services.  

Saved me some hassle  

[TheBoy]

Aria do have a bad reputation for messing up orders, then taking ages to admit a mistake and rectify.

I would be very cautious....

Point taken, they stuffed me arround a while back, they had introduced new sales software that was KaKa.

Had 4 orders since, even got delivery next day, so at the mo, all seems good.


Word of Warning for all people taking in deliveries.

Sign your name and printit, but also add the word UNCHECKED.  Use it with all courier services.  

Saved me some hassle  

I have heard then come up with all sorts of weird excuses, but the fact remains they do seem to have a high number of mail order issues...

[Mr Skrunts]

Aria do have a bad reputation for messing up orders, then taking ages to admit a mistake and rectify.

I would be very cautious....

Point taken, they stuffed me arround a while back, they had introduced new sales software that was KaKa.

Had 4 orders since, even got delivery next day, so at the mo, all seems good.


Word of Warning for all people taking in deliveries.

Sign your name and printit, but also add the word UNCHECKED.  Use it with all courier services.  

Saved me some hassle  

I have heard then come up with all sorts of weird excuses, but the fact remains they do seem to have a high number of mail order issues...

Mostly caused by Citylink

They then proceed to blame each other.

[CaptainZok]

Used them a couple of weeks ago for the first time, prices seem quite good.
Might have to start driving over if deliveries are a problem.

[Mr Skrunts]

Used them a couple of weeks ago for the first time, prices seem quite good.
Might have to start driving over if deliveries are a problem.

Think they are all as bad as each other at times

[SteveD]

I used to deal with Aria on a commercial basis many years ago. An Oriental guy called Harry ran the show then. Be careful - they used to re-sell faulty returns three times over to confirm they were infact duff - got the customers to do the testing for them!

They might be ok now but I ditched them after about 6 months trading.

[Mr Skrunts]

I used to deal with Aria on a commercial basis many years ago. An Oriental guy called Harry ran the show then. Be careful - they used to re-sell faulty returns three times over to confirm they were infact duff - got the customers to do the testing for them!

They might be ok now but I ditched them after about 6 months trading.

Good advice.  I just had 2 hard drives off them, both still sealed.  I allways make a point about checking boxes/contents etc.  You have to take thier word for what you buy but as you have just mentioned, you dont allways kow what you get. :-/

[SheWhoMustNotBeOUTBID]

I think if I buy a laptop, will go to ebuyer.., often cheapest prices and know I'll have no problems at all with returns
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147175
This is very similiar to one on the aria link, but double RAM, same CPU, and £10 cheaper.

But, of course, we all have our fav. sites for things.

[HerefordElite]

I think if I buy a laptop, will go to ebuyer.., often cheapest prices and know I'll have no problems at all with returns
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147175
This is very similiar to one on the aria link, but double RAM, same CPU, and £10 cheaper.

But, of course, we all have our fav. sites for things.

used ebuyer before and they're excellent even replaced my tft monitor which had a couple of dead pixels, no questions asked

[Mr Skrunts]

I think if I buy a laptop, will go to ebuyer.., often cheapest prices and know I'll have no problems at all with returns
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147175
This is very similiar to one on the aria link, but double RAM, same CPU, and £10 cheaper.

But, of course, we all have our fav. sites for things.

used ebuyer before and they're excellent even replaced my tft monitor which had a couple of dead pixels, no questions asked

They have had their issues as well.

Obviously they are all learning to try and stay in front sales wise they have all had to improve thier acts.

[Mr Skrunts]

I think if I buy a laptop, will go to ebuyer.., often cheapest prices and know I'll have no problems at all with returns
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147175
This is very similiar to one on the aria link, but double RAM, same CPU, and £10 cheaper.

But, of course, we all have our fav. sites for things.

Is that before or after the Gold Plated Sewing machine.  

[humbucker]

more geared towards those of you who want to build you own machine rather than an off the shelf job, but i cant praise these guys enough; well priced, super quick delivery, spot on. my current machine is a monster and was very reasonable on the wallet;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

[Mr Skrunts]

more geared towards those of you who want to build you own machine rather than an off the shelf job, but i cant praise these guys enough; well priced, super quick delivery, spot on. my current machine is a monster and was very reasonable on the wallet;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-113-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1050&name=Gigabyte%20GA-X48-DQ6%20Intel%20X48%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-131-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1155&name=Gigabyte%20GA-EP45-DQ6%20Intel%20P45%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-260-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1057&name=Asus%20Striker%20II%20Formula%20nForce%20780i%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard

Been looking at these Motherboards on these for a couple of days now.

I was going to go for tha Asus as I favoured the NVidea chipset.

But it seems there is a big change on the move in Graphics card performance and the Nvidea is about to start falling behind AYI performance.  Either way I have recently bought a 768MB GTX so its a case ofthroughput performance per board.

Asus I have allways found to be OK, a little slow (maybe a bit bottlenecky)  But the market has raved about the Striker board.

The P45 chipset board has Quad lan, as much as I could make use of that it would be as a server.

So those are my 3 choices so far.

Will end up with an E8400/8500 CPU, 2 x2GB ram (maybe 4 x 2GB)
8800 GTX if I build it as my gaming machine, 256mb 8600 GT if I build it as a server, but will put a lesser CPU in it.

Any thoughts anyone.

Anyone got any of the above.

TIA.