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Goose Baxter

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I am wanting to buy a hard drive tower for my TV, Me and the mrs are due to move in together in October and fancied a p.c in the house but have heard that you can do this through your TV.

 

So can anyone recommend me a place that I can buy this?

 

It will mainly be used for football manager and holding pictures, I-tunes kind off thing.

 

Don?t plan on using this for the internet as she has her laptop for this.

 

Any ideas?

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Goose Baxter

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:bulb2: Yeah, don't do it. :bulb2:

:sorcerer::sorcerer::sorcerer:

 

Been with her for 8 years mate, Think its time i uped my game

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Goose Baxter

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Fair enough :sunny:

 

 

Looking forward it ti be honest,

 

Playing fm while watching the champions league and geting a sookie at the same time. What more can a man ask for? A beer?

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JamboBannon10

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It doesn't need to be any special kind of tower basically just buy a PC without a monitor and u can hook it up to ur tv (im guessing u have a newer TV which has a PC input) then get urself a wireless mouse and keyboard n just switch onto it like ud switch onto a games console, basically its just whatever Ur wantin to pay, id probably recomend gettin 1 custom built if ur just using it for what u said, spend most of ur money gettin a massive HDD if the rest is just half decent that will be fine for football manager games

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It doesn't need to be any special kind of tower basically just buy a PC without a monitor and u can hook it up to ur tv (im guessing u have a newer TV which has a PC input) then get urself a wireless mouse and keyboard n just switch onto it like ud switch onto a games console, basically its just whatever Ur wantin to pay, id probably recomend gettin 1 custom built if ur just using it for what u said, spend most of ur money gettin a massive HDD if the rest is just half decent that will be fine for football manager games

 

 

Wouldnt know where to start mate if i was to get one custom built, but then you dont have a warrenty or that.

 

Yeah it is a new HD flatscreen t.v that i got from Santa.

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It's a piece of ****. If you have an existing PC or Latop, it can be done with one simple cable.

 

I connect my laptop up for movies and what not.

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BoJack Horseman

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I do enjoy the oldies calling it the 'Hard Drive' :P.

 

As folk have said, you'd just need a basic PC if it's for FM etc. Get yourself some knowledge and you can have high quality movies on your big telly for nout.

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Wouldnt know where to start mate if i was to get one custom built, but then you dont have a warrenty or that.

 

Yeah it is a new HD flatscreen t.v that i got from Santa.

 

Like others have said you should be able to hook your laptop up to your TV but if you decide you want a new system I've always found these people to be good. They could make a custom machine for you if you aren't happy building one yourself.

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Like others have said you should be able to hook your laptop up to your TV but if you decide you want a new system I've always found these people to be good. They could make a custom machine for you if you aren't happy building one yourself.

 

Cheers mate,

 

Just sent them and email.

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http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0411530759.1249375898@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfiadehllhhlihcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=843070&category_oid=-34080

 

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0411530759.1249375898@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfiadehllhhlihcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=786243&category_oid=-34080

 

Small, good specs, nice looking!

 

Dont let them sell you any additional nonsense though!

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BoJack Horseman

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What i'd do is go here;

 

http://www.dell.co.uk/home/desktops?~ck=mn

 

Find the machine that you want, don't worry too much about the specs.

 

Then go here;

 

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/dfh/Desktops/ct.aspx?refid=desktops&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&~ck=mn

 

And find the Desktop that you'd like.

 

Dell outlet is basically just PCs that have been built but then either the order has been cancelled or it has been returned. They are in brand new condition but are not customiseable. That's why they are so cheap.

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What i'd do is go here;

 

http://www.dell.co.uk/home/desktops?~ck=mn

 

Find the machine that you want, don't worry too much about the specs.

 

Then go here;

 

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/dfh/Desktops/ct.aspx?refid=desktops&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&~ck=mn

 

And find the Desktop that you'd like.

 

Dell outlet is basically just PCs that have been built but then either the order has been cancelled or it has been returned. They are in brand new condition but are not customiseable. That's why they are so cheap.

 

I still havent got a clue what is a good one and one that is a gash one, All i see is letter's and number's that mean hee-haw to me

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I still havent got a clue what is a good one and one that is a gash one, All i see is letter's and number's that mean hee-haw to me

 

What style of Dell looks best to you? And what would you prefer to spend?

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If the numbers mean 'hee-haw' tell us the maximum you want to spend and we can find one to suit?

 

If its for watchin movies, listenin music with the odd game of Champ Manager shouldnt cost much!

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Thanks for the help guys, I would say i am willing to spend no more than ?400 with wanting football manager running at a decent speed

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Few very good ones from: http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODCATEGORYVIEWPAGE&USG=APPLICATION&ENT=APPLICATION&KEY=59734

 

For decent prices as well. Mind most of them are without a monitor :)

 

The R2S - Matrix PII 925 is a very good deal. 8GB memory will run it like a whippit. If you do buy it make sure you edit it so you get the windows 7 options so that it can actually use the full 8GB of memory.

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Few very good ones from: http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODCATEGORYVIEWPAGE&USG=APPLICATION&ENT=APPLICATION&KEY=59734

 

For decent prices as well. Mind most of them are without a monitor :)

 

He doesn't need a monitor. It's getting hooked up to his telly.

 

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

 

There's one for sub-?400 that has everything you need including an HDMI port for the telly.

 

It's one of these;

 

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He doesn't need a monitor. It's getting hooked up to his telly.

 

I did realise that but thought it wouldn't hurt to remind him.

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