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Document
originally written: November 2000
When
it comes to the crunch, when it comes to producing computers that
perform, Best
Price Computers Ltd
comes out tops. Quality parts, superior technical skills and
attention to detail combine to ensure that our computers put all
competitors in the shade - by a wide margin. But don't take our
word for it. We will produce here results of tests carried out by
various PC magazines. Read and analyse them; then decide.
To
appreciate these tests results and make fair comparisons you need
to have some facts on the tests themselves.
- Tests
like Winbench and Winstone, Disk Winmark and 3D Winmark have
been designed by the ZDNet Group of Companies and are used by
magazines like PC Direct and PC Magazine (and others) to compare performance of PCs. The
below sample of tests were performed by PC Direct magazine.
- It
is unfair to compare scores from one PC running NT with
another PC running Windows 98 SE/ME. NT does score higher on
tests like Winstone because NT is more efficient at executing
32 bit applications. You need to compare like for like and we
have therefore not reproduced any results where we've got a
higher score purely because we had a different operating
system.
- Again,
to ensure a level playing field, there are some rules that all
companies submitting PCs should follow. Companies can't "overclock"
their PCs, nor can they use programs like "Ramdisk"
to artificially boost scores.
Disclaimer: The specs of the PCs submitted for the group tests
differed widely. The Disk Winmark scores measuring how the
hard disk performs is only one of several tests run on the
PCs. The charts on this page are not the complete results of
all the tests. Visit PC Direct's website
for full details & results of any of the tests below.
How
we rate on Disk Winmark scores:
PC
Direct 08/00
PC
Direct 09/00
PC
Direct 12/00
PC
Direct 01/01
The 9830 score above is the highest ever IDE disk
Winmark score published in the UK as of the date this page was
created (Nov 2000). How about
this for a prediction: When that score is beaten in the UK it will
be by one of our own Poweroid computers. If you want performance
you can't afford to buy your PC anywhere else.
But hard disks
tell only a small part of the story. What about other scores? Is
it just disk scores that we are good at? No, we've proved that we
build some of the best PCs in the UK.
Other TESTS:
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The
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PC
Direct's Group Test, 02/00 issue
Below
is a collection of the typical range of tests a magazine runs on the
PCs that have entered the group test*.
The
brief for the below tests was business computer systems
within a target price of £799 + vat. Dell, Gateway and Tiny were
some of the manufacturers who supplied computers for this test. See
how they perform against our high performance
beasts. We produce the summary results here.
Note:
At the same price
point as everyone else (£799 + vat) our computer was the only one that also had a CD ReWriter and
a full Office Suite package. You just can't beat that for value. Product
information
How
do we get these consistently high scores? Click
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The
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PC
Direct's Group Tests*
12/00
Previous
test results
When
it comes to the crunch, when it comes to producing computers that
perform, Best
Price Computers Ltd
comes out tops. Quality parts, superior technical skills and
attention to detail combine to ensure that our computers put all
competitors' in the shade - by a wide margin.
The
test:
PC
Direct invited manufacturers to supply PCs
within a target price of £999 + vat. Dell, Gateway, Tiny, Simply
Computers, Time and Viglen were
some of the manufacturers who supplied computers for this test. See
how they perform against our Poweroid 2001
high performance beast. We produce the summary results here.
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SECRETS
TO HIGH PERFORMANCE >>
The
next time you are in the market for a PC
buy
it from a company that really knows how to build
PCs. Buy your PC from us. We hope we've convinced you about the
performance of our PCs. Now let's prove that our prices don't hurt.
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