Been out of the loop - is this OK for a cheap office system?

[ajgoodfellow]

Hi

Used to be a regular poster in here but I've been out of the loop for a few years

We need a cheap Office PC for work. All it'll need to run is Windows XP Pro and Sage Accounts/Payroll 2008

Currently I was thinking of:

OcUK 1GB (2x512MB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST380815AS) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST380815AS) £21.99
(£25.84) £21.99
(£25.84)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
Abit NF-M2SV nForce 6100 Micro-ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Abit NF-M2SV nForce 6100 Micro-ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £25.99
(£30.54) £25.99
(£30.54)
LiteON DH-16D2S-02C 16x Serial ATA DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM LiteON DH-16D2S-02C 16x Serial ATA DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £9.99
(£11.74) £9.99
(£11.74)
Antec NSK 4480 Mini Tower Case (Silver) - 380W Earth Watts PSU Antec NSK 4480 Mini Tower Case (Silver) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
Sub Total : £154.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £29.03
Total : £194.92


I think I've remembered everything

What do you think?


Thanks

Alistair

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply

Completely forgot about a mouse and keyboard!

As for an OS, we recently bought a batch of 10 XP licenses and have some left so we don't need one for it

Good point about the graphics card but as it's just basic office use (and all of our other PCs have integrated graphics apart from the CAD PC) it should be OK

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Cheers

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Yeah - that's a good idea

Her current PC is an ancient P4 2GHz with 256MB of ram which is slowly dieing!

We recently had to upgrade Sage due to support ending on our old version and the new version is a lot slower

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Pro

 

[ajgoodfellow]

They do do good cheap deals but we meant to order the PC sooner as we really need it next week

That means self build or off the shelf really - thanks for the suggestions though