​what about those of us arriving even later?

Phew, too late so £80 quid back in my pocket. That was close!

Yup, while that's excellent at it's purpose (uber small physical size) it's a rather low specced affair. This would not only be a pretty decent upgrade but from shots of the internals in previous RM pc's they look to use a standard m-ATX mainboard (1 full pcie, 2 or 3 PCI/1xPCIe) so transplanting it over to a proper case and you can throw standard parts at it like full sized graphics cards*
I think It's also a Sandy bridge i3 (S1155) so will take anything up to an i7-3770K, assuming a regular heatsink can be fitted (and there's a bios update available for the mainboard it uses).

It's definitely worthy at it's current price but it's possibly got a LOT of potential too. As a minor point - S1155 motherboards are getting increasing rare. This as parts could well fetch over the £78 asking if you can be bothered to mess around stripping and selling.

I'm trying to talk myself out of buying one. Without my good lady to reason the purchase decision with I'd likely already have one on it's way :stuck_out_tongue:





*I'm speculating, educated guess/deduction though

mATX is 244x244mm so that does sound like it's a regular mATX board. Even the really budget 1155 ones are rather hard to find now.

Seems there's quite a lot of ebay options in the same region.

Most people are still on sandy/ivy bridge i3/5/7 processors as there's not really been much reason to upgrade the last couple of generations. Grab something like this then wait until folks slowly move up to Skylake/Kaby Lake and sell old kit. A sandybridge i5 will still keep within 1/2% of a haswell based chip once they're both overclocked (obviously not something a "regular" user does). i7 sandy/ivy bridge chips can be had for the region of £120.

OK - I know this is gone now - but I am posting anyway - just in case more stock comes in.
I ordered one yesterday/came today - which was very good service + communication of delivery was excellent.
It was a spur of the moment purchase - as I have a few pc's running this chip - and I like the performance they give. Plus, thought it would make a good media player pc.

Bads - dent in case, the part of the case that comes off when you open it up. May try to straighten it out. For me, this is no biggie. So far that is the only downside.

Goods - build is very good, very robust. Access is very well designed

Techie bits
M/board (small board, not sure what the correct name for size is - 24x24cm)
says - Intel desk top board, class b, canada, ices 00
4 x sata (2 used - 1 for hard drive (said around 300GB avail in explorer iirc), 1 for dvd (super writemaster, speedplus)
4 slots (1xpcix16, 1xpci, 1 small black slot and 1 even smaller black slot) ALL CARDS WOULD NEED TO BE HALF HEIGHT SPECIAL CARDS
came with 2 sticks of 2gb ram (1600 I think) - leaving 2 free slots
windows 7 home prem pre-installed (booted and not "rubbish" software pre-installed as far as I could tell) sticker on side with product key
chip: is what they said - checked in Control Panel
noise? cpu fan totally quiet, psu fan bit of noise (not much), I am hoping when I put it all back together it will be quiet.

Think that is it. I am currently adding SSD (easily has space for it without moving/losing anything) + 4more GB of RAM.

Oh, and LAN driver's are here, you'll need these if doing a fresh install...
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23794/LAN-Intel-Gigabit-Ethernet-Controller-driver-for-Windows-8-

Thanks, os isnt an issue. I'd imagine anyone wanting to keep the current case cooling may be an issue since people will be using to run 1080p movies, mid low level games etc? Basically a lot more intensive than what kids would use at school. Although in/out air is controlled better than a normal case.
Personally swap to a mid size case, apply new paste to cpu and purchase aa cheap £15 third party CPU cooler

Slightly, very slightly - slower CPU. Still not terrible what you've found, given most of us inclined to these types of deal never pay for an OS anyway.

Havent checked if it's the same PC but they have Vista not Windows 7 so no free upgrade to Windows 10

These ones are available. Are these the same as the PC in the link anyone??
Apart from 500gb hdd

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/252158598110

I was lucky enough to get one, however my order has just been cancelled due to high demand.

Just missed out thanks

I bought one of these a couple of months ago - the case can fit 2x 3.5" drives which is fairly good considering the chassis size - and 4x sata ports total.
There is a DVI port, but you won't get any sound out of it, so it's 3.5mm or fit a low profile card.
It arrived in reasonable condition despite the age.

​what about those of us arriving even later?

For those arriving late. 6 of these left at time of posting:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Novatech-PC2000S-Intel-i3-Computer-4GB-RAM-500GB-HDD-Windows-Vista/252115206624?_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150313114020%26meid%3D98563a2ab75c40a197d1a0333a5745a2%26pid%3D100338%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Des%26sd%3D181886141433

(bigger hard drive, only windows vista though)

spent too long reading the comments!

dammit missed it!

Urgh, morgan computers have had all theirs snapped up too.

Phew, too late so £80 quid back in my pocket. That was close!

Oh ****

YEs please stiff1231 - a photo of the guts is exactly what I need as well to discover whether it has a port for a better graphics card as built in ones are normally pretty poo.

Damn missed this deal is there anything else out there that comes close for the money?

AAAAAAND it's out of stock. :disappointed:

Grats to those that nabbed one (or more) You saved me. :smile:

PM Sent :smiley:

make that three calls.

anyone know how many watts this idles at?
is it quiet?

Quick question as I'm not at all hot on pcs right now. My dad is looking for an upgrade to his slow revo r3610. I'm assuming this would wipe the floor with it as a cheap upgrade? Many thanks

no idea why but since registering this company has rang me twice, googling the number reveals less than stellar views on these calls.

Yes they are standard motherboards.

I used to work with this exact model of PC day in, day out. They are designed for schools and are almost bullet proof as such. Anything that can be damaged is easily removed/swapped out. Good bargain for a decent spec machine.

Any questions on hardware design/the PC in general, fire away.

wow yes please, that would be much appreciated !

Very Plex-able...
CPU is way above the minimum for transcoding and there looks to be enough room to squeeze a couple of 5TB drives inside (may have to remove the 320GB and the DVD drive).

Heat! :smiley:

You could perhaps fit a cheap single slot GPU to this perhaps to add that kind of support. If you shop around the price could still be sub £100

A quid more at Morgan Computers: http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/product_detail/15746/RM-EcoQuiet-G-SFF-PC-Intel-Core-i3-3-3GHz-PC-4GB-RAM-320GB-HDD-with-DVD-Windows-7-Home-Premium/

Great deal!! Have some heat!

totally do not need this but heat added, great deal!
I see they have limited it to 1 per person

don't need one, so voted hot and bought one.
damn this web site!

My 4 year old PC at work consists of a Core i3-2120, 8gb ram, 120gb SSD and 500gb 7200rpm hard drive, nothing at all wrong with the Core i3-2120, it's still a really good processor today and has no problems with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.

This seems a great little PC and of course you could add an SSD and more ram fairly cheap to really make it fly.

Does anybody know what hard drive interface the motherboard have?

Looked on web on a few places and indicates ATA 100, which I think is a bit old.

Thanks in advance

So no mention of a graphics card and GPU so no good for modern games? I assuem once you put one in it will be fine. Thinknig about buying it as an upgrade, currently got a 2.8 dual core with 2 or 4g of ram.

An RM PC? Thats the crap you see in schools, if this is a refurb its probaly had some snotty kids hand on it about 300+ times! Cold from me sadly :disappointed:

if they accepted PayPal I'd buy one right now, unfortunately waiting on replacement card at the moment.

Tidy little machine and worth the low price. Good post

So is this thing capable? I need a cheap PC that can quickly run iTunes and project64, would I be able to play N64 games with no framerate issues?

Sadly it wasn't a question..... I bought 2 aswell :neutral_face: and haven't come up with a good enough excuse for the first one yet. But thanks to your code and p&p being a flat rate, its £75 each. Absolute steal for what I would argue is the best value intel series still (partially because of the spare parts lying around, partly because they screwed up the next gen by putting the voltage regs on the chip).

I bought a 2600k early on and these days you still need to be getting a high tier i5 just to get the same bench scores. Quite a relief when I found out even with skylake on the new platform with ddr4 and all the hype, the 2600k is still punching way up there.

The only problem with sandy bridge is finding a new dual pcie board for a sensible price. At £90+ may aswell begin looking at an upgrade path. Or a single gpu solution......... (obviously not really specific to this deal :man: )

DVI to HDMI convertor?

Wanted a no thrills PC for my Nan, this should fit the bill ordered

With a passmark of 3870 these are still quite capable little processors.

Looks like a good deal to me, more interfaces than I'd expect for the price (e.g.Firewire and eSata), personally I'd leave Win7 on it.

Yeah, one was about 2 weeks ago and I didn't even know about the discount code for that one.
Now a second which arrived Tuesday...
Decent courier for mine too - was DPD which arrived within 2 days

Don't need one, don't know if I want one.
But dang it my current only has a g860 cpu....

Bought 2!?

I hate HUKD sometimes.
Heat begrudgingly given, fantastic deal if the pc lasts a bit longer than the warranty :smiley:

do these use a standard layout mainboard mate? interested in moving the contents to a nice htpc case..

Not a problem - I just like sharing the bargains :smiley:

You're right - I apologise!! :smiley:

I already added the P+P.
Total DELIVERED is £78.94
(Be sure to use the discount code MED66)

not bad for the price... with Warranty: 3 Months

Nice find :smiley: .. you'll need to add P+P - for one PC it is an additional £6.99

Good find, cheers. Thinking of buying one