So what?
It's not tiny, but easy enough to tuck out of the way
and as for the spec, my i3 runs a 4Tb hard drive for Plex server, Film, Music, photos, Streams to 3 boxes at the same time AND I happily run office, rip CDs, remote desktop onto it from my laptop, root my phone, flash new ROMs, and run a variety of VMs (Linux flavours).
It has yet to concern me in the least with any performance issues.
It's not all about Gaming

its excellent for the price, and will play a lot of games fine, just not the latest and greatest, lots of ram too. some people just like to diss everything for not having things that arent realistic at the price point, and would have something negative, and besides the point to say no matter what it was, and as has been said they can offer nothing better, only annacdotal evidence the got one cheaper once etc. So good post n good price mate well done, just ignore the nay sayers. Ok rant over lol

"Obviously not top of the range but would probably perform OK for browsing, office work etc." -op

"This is crap for gaming" - every other comment in a PC deal thread.

Bit confused by your comment Incognitoso - I appreciate that this is not a high end PC but, as I originally posted, it would seem to be suitable for browsing and office work. I would be interested if you could provide a link to a higher spec. PC for the same price.

heat from me, bargain at that price

says £209 for me.

Pretty good as it includes Windows 8

Pretty it's not small form factor or i'd buy this for Kodi.

What can I say : a very big .....big desktop with low CPU + GPU and other low components
Usage web pages and office For little gaming need to add GPU + PSU
Now 2016 and for similar money you can get mini PC
What I mean is why they selling big box case with low end components ??? What the reason for this ?? The mainboard will be mini ITX

Bit confused by your comment Incognitoso - I appreciate that this is not a high end PC but, as I originally posted, it would seem to be suitable for browsing and office work. I would be interested if you could provide a link to a higher spec. PC for the same price.

F you are planning to use this for anything more than web and docs then think about adding new PSU, new GPU then should be fine but that sort of adds £200 onto price... :\

Hot

Good price for the spec. For most things it will be fine. Even some older games like starcraft (original) should be fine with the HD 2500 onboard graphics.

buy this better , http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-Z1-621-2-16-Ghz-21-5-Inch-Penti-289-99-/331682936720?_trksid=p2047675.l4066

This is a really good machine even at entry level pricing. Its a 3rd gen i3 which is not to be sniffed at. For everyday use this system would more than cover it. I suppose if you can in a £50 gfx card it will run even better when watching video or playing some games like The Sims and such like.

great for an htpc tower; will handle anything you throw at plex. of course could probably be built for £150 but great for amateurs.

Currently using a quad core Q6600 with 2gb ram and a HD6850. Would this be a good upgrade to my current spec?
Would it play games ok with the i3 and HD6850?

Running Starcraft 2 on my current spec no trouble but for this price I may consider moving to the i3.

What about this one http://www.ebuyer.com/719943-hp-280-g1-mt-desktop-n0d96ea-abu
£174 with better processor, Recently I traded my Dell desktop with this and upgraded SSD and 8GB for another £50+

Plus you get windows 7 and Windows 8 media with free upgrade to a Windows 10

cheers will buy when my benefits come in

A better bet for plex or gaming would be this technically it's a server but came be used for games with a GPU

The T&Cs say "2.The promotion is open to businesses or organisations operating in mainland UK and Northern Ireland only. " so an individual buying would need to buy as a business.

The 10% offer disappeared?

Thanks xela.
I have a 500W PSU that I could throw into it as well as the 6850.

No sign of the 10% off...I've scrolled down....

good for media and light productivity.

purchased anyways, still a very good price

have you noticed how all the people who **** these deals off simply because they aren't gaming machines, never reply when they are challenged to show us a better machine for the money.......
HOT by the way!

Not everyone plays games on a computer,in fact I only know one person,adult that is,amongst my friends,all adults,that plays games.

When I think back to the days of 286 chips 16mb ram and 20mb hard drive but still using the PC for graphics work it makes the comments re"Crap for gaming" rather purile. :stuck_out_tongue:

I've just bought this and now I'm worried it doesn't have an hdmi or dvi output.. Can anyone advise?

I've only posted a few items on this site but some of the comments have been very interesting. In particular, all of the references to the suitability of this machine for gaming. Without wanting to upset the gamers (is that what a group of people who play games is called?) I was never looking for a gaming machine and did not post the deal with this in mind. I was looking for a cheap machine to replace my (very) old one and this seemed to be the best I could find. I hope the link helped a few other people with the same requirement.

If I beefed it up with a few more components could I turn this into an entry level gaming PC? Can't be any worse than my current one!

Cheers matey, I'll have a look at those

I have a ps4 for gaming. If I wanted a pc for gaming I wouldn't be on this thread.

Most welcome :-)

Buy a used Core i5 like this,far better value and specificationshttp://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/core-i5-pc for £199 orhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-3GHz-CORE-i5-2ND-GEN-WINDOWS-7-HP-COMPAQ-ELITE-8200-COMPUTER-TOWER-PC-500GB-HD-/151951669893 for £129.
II got a dual processor quad core Xeon (8 core total) PC for £150 last year


That's some cheap tat there mate.

its excellent for the price, and will play a lot of games fine, just not the latest and greatest, lots of ram too. some people just like to diss everything for not having things that arent realistic at the price point, and would have something negative, and besides the point to say no matter what it was, and as has been said they can offer nothing better, only annacdotal evidence the got one cheaper once etc. So good post n good price mate well done, just ignore the nay sayers. Ok rant over lol

Asus, decent brand. i3 3rd gen, decent chip, 6Gb, Ram, totally fine for most uses and cheap to add, 1 TB drive, great. Hotukdeals is a great resource, but if this was a car group and every decent family car had BTL comments "It can't get do 0-60 mph in less than 4 secs", you'd just shake your head and laugh. For computers, it seems to be fine.

What's the % of computing time that the whole sway of non-gaming users would find these specs annoying? I would guess it's not even 0.1 %, possibly not even 0.01 %. Ripping DVDs will be slower, but the vast majority of users won't find many applications that they think 'hurry up'. What are non-gaming people using the cpus for that need an i7?

Come up as £209.99 for me

Now priced at £184.99!

They have it listed 3 times now. £220 refurb, £200 refurb or £185 brand new. Just ordered one to run my plex server from. Got to be better than my 5 year old laptop that's been recently switching off due to over heating. Plus this thing seems to be very cheap to run according to reviews of the cpu.

OOS now :disappointed: