Best Sites to Buy your PC things from... UK:

www.ebuyer.co.uk
www.scan.co.uk
www.xtsit.com
www.overclockers.co.uk (excellent for specialised parts, RAM etc)
www.microdirect.co.uk
www.overclock.co.uk

I find these are very good, xtsit.com normally bring their prices down before the rest which is handy. eBuyer is brilliant, but very slow postage unless you are willing to pay extra, and overclockers is not the cheapest, but if you are looking for something specific for overclocking, i.e. specialised RAM then you should be able to find it here.

Add your own, just for reference. Also needs a US addition.

ebuyer's dope

Oh, and avoid eBay. If you can buy it there, you can get it cheaper else where. If you can't find it on the above, try froogle. Go to google, then click on froogle, although beware as it can be very expensive.

Thanks for making this a sticky... I'm no longer a Virgin!

P.S. eBay is good for refurbished things, especially PC components. You can normally get excellent prices, if you find the right things. For example, I bought an Ati 9800 Pro recently for £30.00 refurbished (thank you Denz). That's pretty good. I also bought a Sound Blaster X-FI Elite Pro for £110 that was (refurbished) but came brand new. So yea, you can find things, but avoid all/most buy it nows(normally massively over priced), and bid in the last few minutes, or else you'll get into a bidding war, and get ripped off.

For Budget buyers, and anyone interested, AMD socket 939 is probably the best price/performance platform you can buy. The AM2 offers a slight increase in performance with the increased costs of ram etc... and the performance difference isn't massive, about 5% if I remember rightly.

The single core 939s are dead cheap, especially the venice 3000+ (which I clocked to 2.9ghz - and it goes higher also apparently), and the Motherboards etc have fallen through the floor. Wait until AMD release their latest line of products before you buy though, as you'll probably find a bigger drop in price as they try to make 939 obsolete.

For people with lots of money - wait for the Intel Quad Core - looks incredible, and do not go back to AMD, as they will not be back in the running for best CPU until mid 2008.

Got something else... Could be interesting for the UK'ers looking for a bargain over chrsitmas...


http://www.hotukdeals.com/forums/


I got an official Xbox 360 Power pack/charger thing for free! (But hand to spend £10.00 on something else - but with the vouchers, it was a bargain - It's like £17.00 and I got a game with it for a tenner!)

Have a look through, you can get TVs and shit at huge discounts with certain offers, and vouchers, and even get products for virtually nothing when the offers go wrong. Take a look...