Budget base unit for internet

[fullmetaltony]

Hi, what's the cheapest I can put a base unit together (including Windows)? No gaming, just general family stuff like itunes and internet. Cheap as possible please
Thanks in advance

 

[opstrat]

lets help the guys out a bit.

do u need monitor keyboard mouse?

also going to go out on a limb here and suggest an ipad, or even a google nexus?

 

[BrianB]

What about a cheap laptop? Saves space and people can have privacy if chatting etc too.

 

[Sneblot]

You might want to looking at OCuk's system builds or possibly this:-

YOUR BASKET
1 x ASRock N68-VS3 FX (AM3+) Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 Midi Tower Case - Black £32.99
1 x OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £29.99
1 x AMD Sempron 145 2.80GHz Single Core Processor (Socket AM3) - Retail £29.99
1 x OcUK Swift 500W V2 Silent Power Supply £19.99
1 x OcUK Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £13.99
Total : £161.94 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[fullmetaltony]

Looks good Sneblot, I've been having a look at some of the barebones sets OCUK sell and there's one at the moment on £60 which will get me the mobo/PSU/case for £60. This one
Would it be OK to stick an i3-3220 in that?
Just need HDD (will go for 500gb normal as they want itunes library), optical drive and ram then? Am I missing anything?

opstrat, my bad, I though base unit would indicate no kb/mouse/monitor.

BrianB, not a bad idea but they already have a laptop and are keen to keep their desktop set up, so I'm speccing out a base unit as cheap as I can for them

 

[Sneblot]

Yes you would be able to fit an i3-3220 to that bundle as the mobo is a 1155 socket. Why not go for a whole 1Tb

I mean at the moment on OCUK for the price of a 500Gb £59.99 you can get this Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100).

 

[fullmetaltony]

Good call Sneblot, if it's still on offer when they decide to take the plunge I'll get that, cheers

 

[opstrat]

if you go with sneblot's build or even the primo pre built, change out the psu for this one
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-059-CS

The company that makes the psu for ocuk are notorious for blowing up and taking the the rest of the computer with it.

 

[Fire_fly]

You may have a problem with running the i3-3220 on the older Intel 6 series boards. Although the same socket these boards require a BIOS update to run the new Ivy chips, to do this you need to have a sandybridge chip.

 

[Sneblot]

if you go with sneblot's build or even the primo pre built, change out the psu for this one
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-059-CS

The company that makes the psu for ocuk are notorious for blowing up and taking the the rest of the computer with it.

Wow I did not know that yer I would suggest changing out the psu then, I had gone for the cheapest of nearly everything. I would have to say I personally would go for the AMD build just cause you won't have to worry about the i3-3220 on the older Intel 6 series boards issue.