A £300 spec challange.

Mikesoft

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Here is the challange. Yet another mate of mine is on a very tight budget for a base unit system. Whats the best spec you can do for £300? He will only be using the computer for word processing so power isnt so much of a problem.
 
Its just the base unit he needs. He already has an oldish Dell flat screen along with keyboard, mouse and speakers. Preferably go for the new stuff. Max price i think he said he could go was £350 I think.
 
well ive speced one in here but the money for it could be used to better somthing else
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a lot of ppl say get the baracuda drives but i have 2 of these in 250gb and there fast and silent plus they have a 16mb cache
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Samsung SpinPoint T HD400LJ 400GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £62.99
(£74.01) £62.99
(£74.01)
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC4200 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT533D2) ( £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £52.99
(£62.26) £52.99
(£62.26)
Abit NF-M2S Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige) - OEM £12.99
(£15.26) £12.99
(£15.26)
Sub Total : £298.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £54.06
Total : £362.95


A bit over budget, make hdd a bit smalller and its on budget below 350.
If he wants 300 really max get 1 gb of ram instead of 2.
Video on-board if you wounder where that is...

Edit: meh paul 64 beat me.

Any of these 2 specs are fine, pauls has more processing power and better graphics, while mine has more ram and a lot more storage...
 
Here is a good word processing / internet base unit:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail - £62.26
Abit NF-M2S Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £41.11
Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-4200C4 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT6464AA53E) - £49.34
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JB ATA-100 8MB Cache - OEM - £30.54
Liteon DVD-8900 16x DVD±RW/RAM (Black) - OEM - £16.44
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU - £46.99

Total: £246.68 + delivery.

The motherboard has built in Nvidia 6200 which means it will play games (a few years old :)) a bit too.
 
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