Cheap as chips build

skylineboy

skylineboy

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Hi all,

I'm at my grandparent's house and I have just logged into an ancient machine riddled with viruses and basically incapable of doing anything. Should be a browsing machine but appears to not be capable of this.

Please can you spec me a budget build including all inner components plus a case, keyboard, mouse and w7.

I could reuse the mouse and keyboard using the old school ps/2 (?) connectors or buy new.

Thanks

Much appreciated.
 
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You're probably better off picking up a cheap pre-built PC of some kind. They start of at £150, it's hard to beat that on price building it yourself.

I can only assume it's to be used for light internet browsing etc?
 
andy_mk3 said:
You're probably better off picking up a cheap pre-built PC of some kind. They start of at £150, it's hard to beat that on price building it yourself.

I can only assume it's to be used for light internet browsing etc?
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Yeah I'm looking through them now. I'm not used to this end of the market really so just wanted to garner opinions plus I would rather build it to know everything about it for future reference.

In addition time is a factor for me. I need it built before the end of this week as I leave here.
 
 
 
Take note people Ethermaster actually spec'ed something cheap for a change!!! I think this thread should be pinned as a reminder that I can do ....... sometimes. :D
 
I picked up a 'cheap black box from the zoo' for £150 for the rents last year. At the time I couldn't have built it for the same money plus it was less hassle ;)

Does iPlayer for them and the internet, thats all they need :)
 
I was going to but building it myself is preferable if I'm honest (I also need something to do). Plus I can then sort everything out properly directly as opposed to dealing with "monkeys" :)

I don't mind spending a more for the quality.
 
skylineboy said:
I was going to but building it myself is preferable if I'm honest (I also need something to do). Plus I can then sort everything out properly directly as opposed to dealing with "monkeys" :)

I don't mind spending a more for the quality.
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"monkeys" like it :D

In fairness that's what I thought but I was impressed with the internals considering the cost of the box... the only thing I was amazed by was kit of such a small size being put in an old midi tower :rolleyes:
 
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