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Ok, so my friend wants a rig for her son. Will mainly be used for browsing, mail etc plus a few games played. The cost must include case and monitor.

Can it be done?

Cheers.
 
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AC2 SILENT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST3160815AS) £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) (Deal Product) £25.99
(£30.54) £25.99
(£30.54)
Pioneer DVR-115DBK 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £48.99
(£57.56) £48.99
(£57.56)
OcUK Value Hanns-G HW173A 17" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver/Black £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
Sub Total : £378.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £68.58
Total : £460.45

get bigger monitor if 17" is too small or get better graphics card if x1950 isnt enough
 
Thanks jak.

The 17" widescreen should be ok, oop's forgot to add vista oem so that adds 70.49
 
How does this look guys?

specdi4.jpg
 
I would go for a 17 or 19" square, instead of a widescreen - especially in 17" they are very small.
 
bikes said:
How does this look guys?

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7417/specdi4.jpg[img][/QUOTE]

If you drop the second case then you should be pretty close to the budget.

I'd change the hard drive to the Hitachi 160gb as it only costs about a quid more but offers double the space.

I'd agree with Duke about the monitor.

Finally is there any real reason for going with 32bit Vista? I don't see any major benefits to it over XP unless you are going with the 64bit version, aside from the fact that it is newer and will therefore be supported for longer but that is a pretty minor argument in it's favour.
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The only problem is that it's gone over budget now, and a 17" or 19" square are even dearer.

As for Vista, I've used it for a year, and have had no problems with it, apart from the slow transfer speeds.
 
I've rejigged it slightly and changed a couple of parts but you are only £6 over budget or if you get Vista 32bit then you are within budget.

Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £45.99
(£54.04) £45.99
(£54.04)
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AC2 SILENT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
Belinea 1925S1W 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £23.99
(£28.19) £23.99
(£28.19)
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0Y30006) £26.99
(£31.71) £26.99
(£31.71)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £45.99
(£54.04) £45.99
(£54.04)
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Sub Total : £417.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £75.40
Total : £506.26
 
you need to choose your gfx card carefully if you want to play games

really you want one of

Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GV-NX88T256H)

Click image to enlarge
£114.99
£135.11 inc VAT

otherwise, frankly this kid wont be able to play many new games coming out in the future

newpictureef6.jpg
 
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