£500-£600 spec

gash2024 · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:20

Looking to build a system for a family member so i will need everything for between £500-£600 whats your opinion.

rangor gubbins · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:23

including mouse, keyboard, and (more importantly) monitor?

gash2024 · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:36

yes i will need everything including OS

semi-pro waster · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:56

You don't say what your family member will want to do with the PC so this is a basic specification that will work for any sort of office tasks easily but it has onboard graphics so gaming isn't going to be great, there is still space in the budget to get a graphics card though if that is important. Remember however that £200 is taken up by including a monitor, keyboard, mouse and OS.

MO-016-OK OcUK Gamer Extreme 178GP 17" LCD Monitor - Black (MO-016-OK)
£99.99 £99.99
KB-072-LG Logitech Cordless Desktop EX-110 - Retail (KB-072-LG)
£17.99 £17.99
OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£52.99 £52.99
MB-004-AK Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-004-AK)
£45.99 £45.99
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£79.99 £79.99
CA-035-AN Antec Performance TX1088AMG Metallic Grey Tower Case - 480w Truepower PSU (CA-035-AN)
£38.99 £38.99
CP-102-IN Intel Pentium 4 820 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.8GHz (800FSB) - Retail (CP-102-IN)
£64.99 £64.99
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA)
£35.99 £35.99
CD-042-NE NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-042-NE)
£18.99 £18.99
Subtotal £455.91
VAT £79.79
Total £535.70

rangor gubbins · 27 Oct 2006 at 19:02

for graphics cards perhaps one of these might be useful:

GX-040-OK OcUK GeForce 7300 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-040-OK) £49.99

GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG) £61.99

GX-025-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-025-BG) £79.99

(prices not including VAT)

gash2024 · 27 Oct 2006 at 20:53

Many Thx that is a similiar spec to what i was looking at i just wasnt 100% and i was unsure about the G card.
thx again

Hawk Tuah · 27 Oct 2006 at 20:57

Ok. Here's what I'd do. IMO This is one mean machine for someone who doesn't play games.

Asus Terminator R2 PH2, S775, i945G, DDR2, PCI-E (x16), On Board VGA, SATA II £116.90
Intel Pentium D 915 Socket 775, PreslerCore, 2x2.8 GHz, 2MB x 2 Cache, Retail £81.65
1Gb Various Manufactures Major, DDR2 PC5300 (667), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5 Major Retail £71.08
320Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) HDT725032VLA360 Deskstar T7K500, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ £66.34
20.1" Video Seven S20PD TFT, 1440x1050, 8 ms, 600:1, 300 cd/m2, Speakers, Silver/Black £158.57
Logitech Ultra-X Cordless Media Desktop Midnight Black (Keyboard+ Optical Mouse) PS2/USB £29.13
NEC ND-5170A-0B Black x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer DVD-Writer OEM UK £20.55
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2b OEM - 1 pack £58.27

Total Inc Delivery £616.79

Althogh admittadely, I'd probably be paying £58 less to keep in budget.

rangor gubbins · 28 Oct 2006 at 02:37

hows about the AMD route:
CP-164-AM AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £55.99

MB-006-AK Asrock ALiveNF4G-DVI (Socket AM2) PCI-Express Motherboard £39.99

MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) £79.99

HD-093-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB ST3160811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £35.99

Subtotal £211.96
VAT £37.10
Total £249.06

plus £20 for a DVD/RW drive and £100-£150 for monitor.
The mobo has onboard graphics but if you want to use all your budget you could get one of the ones previously mentioned or getter a better CPU or more RAM, bigger HDD etc. Bit difficult to know what you want without knowing what it will be used for.