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New Desktop, Help Required Please...

SHANXTASHANXTA Member Posts: 1,507
edited October 2015 in Poker Chat

Looking to get a new desktop, well switch from a laptop to a desktop anyway.  Been looking around for a couple of weeks, and really still none the wiser at what i'm looking at, so before I shell out the money, if anyone could give me some advice it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm basically looking for a desktop for 2 purposes, poker and for my studies, for both these having a 2 monitor set up will make things alot easier. This is what i currently have my eye on...


and 2 of these


Basically my questions are,

Will this enable me to multitable on Sky without any issues? Or do I need a higher spec?

Is this good value for money?

The monitor resolution is higher than my current laptop, it's currently 1366 x 768, and this just about lets me 6 table with small overlaps, how would the new resolution look with regards to Sky?

TIA for any help
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  • belsibubbelsibub Member Posts: 2,527
    edited October 2015
    Not up on my pre-built/specialist built pc's as i've built my own recently.
    But trust expert reviews link below with one i liked the look of but a bit more money(£612 plus p&p with no monitor).Plenty more to look at in pc section.
    As for monitor not sure but think 2 flat 27" with more connections should cost about the same if not less but probably a more personal preference as you will be looking at them all the time.
    As for a 1080p monitor & tables 12 with slight over lap.

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  • mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 8,219
    edited October 2015
    Hdmi and dvi screens go for about £10-25 on F/b in selling groups.
    Your pc should have a graphics card with DVI , and HDMI slot or 2 HDMI or 2 DVI. (Plus the standard vga slot)

    Ive got a very basic setup 

    A £100 windows 7 pc bought from a 2nd hand pc shop.
    A 19inch dvi monitor 15 from a mate
    Another 19 inch hdmi monitor that was excess to requirements at work. I bought it for £25 .
    Graphics card 40 quid with hdmi and vgi.

    Its a fine setup and cheap. No problems
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  • CraigSG1CraigSG1 Member Posts: 1,832
    edited October 2015
    My recomendation is buy Mac. More expensive in the short term but so, so , so much more reliable and future proof and hold their value because of this. 

    I have found with PC's they get slower and slower rather quickly where as Mac's hold their speed and are much more reliable.
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  • mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 8,219
    edited October 2015
    I look at the specs the graphic card


     D-Sub1x DVI, 1x HDMI

    And the monitors  are HDMI 
    So one lead will be hdmi to hdmi the other Dvi to hdmi . Which works . 
    Thats my setup. I dont think i lose quality 


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