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Well, its happened again.. my "trusty" (notice the ") Acer Aspire 7720g has broken AGAIN! (6th time!!!)

I really cannot be F**ked to fork out more money to get it fixed, why should I if it continues to break?

I'll list my problems, I've owned this machine for 3-4 years..

  • One month In: HDD Breaks - £80
  • Get it back two weeks later, four months later: HDD Breaks AGAIN - £80
  • Six months down the line: Motherboard Breaks.. Somehow. £120
  • Almost a year later, HDD Decides to screw over: £50 Fix
  • Repeat shut off due to over heating, I open it up and find the CPU Fan UNPLUGGED.. Gee, thanks repair shop.. : £0
  • Few months ago, GPU TEMPERATURE PASTE MELTS causing a epic disco lighting on my screen (Youtube the coloured lines of death or something.. its awesome): £20 Fix. TEMPORARY
  • Two days ago, Melts again..: CBA to fix it. P.O.S
  • The laptop was £600 new and was a high range one at the time for gaming..
  • All together I've paid around: £950... Its not worth it to carry on, this thing is ready to be placed in a coffin and nailed in.

This laptop is treated well, its on a ice cold glass table, well its actually on a 17" cooling pad (with three detatch and place anywhere on pad fans) which is on the table. The pad tilts so there's a load of air circulating around it, plus the internal fan. Its cleaned regulary and canned air is gently sprayed through the vents once every 2 months, the screen is cleaned with a Flat Screen cleaner every week etc.

I'm no good when it comes to gaming specs for PC's, this old laptop managed to run IV on medi-low settings and even FSX on high settings without stuttering (and it was a christmas present so I got lucky there)

I don't want to build a PC, as I haven't got the tools.

Now, I need your help. I need a PC suggested to me thats good for gaming, under £1000, and is a DESKTOP.

I want it to be able to run games like GTA IV on high or medium settings..

Thanks guys,

I'll be surfing these boards on the very same laptop at the mo (I can't update the GPU Driver otherwise I'll get the CSOD again, I have to run on non-updated GPU Drivers..

But I can't play any games.. not even Minecraft.

Looks like I'll be waiting even longer for 0.95 than all of y'all. ;)

- Harper

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Processor: Intel i5-6600 @ 3.30GHz 

GPU: MSI ARMOR GeForce GTX 1080 OC

Ram: 16GB Skylake

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You should try building your own PC. It's pretty easy, lots of guides online.

Plus you'll get pretty good spec hardware

Another reason to do so is that you don't get tonnes of crapware.

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  • 2 weeks later...

@OldSchoolSD $2,8k, more or less. (oh, and stationary and desktop is the same thing)

@Harper Even though you say you don't have the tools to build one yourself, you should do it anyway. All you need is a screwdriver & some tutorials or guides, I know theres some good ones on YouTube. For the specs I'll post one of my desktops, which is around £1000 (probably less (damn danish tax)), but maybe a little outdated, so see if there are some new things on the market before you order it.

ASUS Rampage III Extreme (good overclocking abilities, might want to choose something cheaper)

ASUS ENGTX560

Cooler Master CM Storm Sniper Black

Cooler Master V8

Core i7 I7-930

Corsair TX750W

Corsair XMS3 4gb x2

Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ

Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223C

Samsung SyncMaster XL2370

I have 3 of these, and I haven't had a problem with any of them yet. Something you might want to do is to replace the CPU & motherboard, because of the new sandy bridge CPUs. And if you insist on not building it yourself, have somebody else do it. It would still be cheaper. I think you should build one yourself though, its pretty easy. If you can build something with lego, you can build your own computer.

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If you want a new computer what i would do is buy it in eBay. Buy the parts in ebay(cheaper there) and build it yourself, you'll spend around let's say for a VERY VERY good one around 900$ no more, better than those 2000$ alienwares for sure.

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