Budget Build

neillybob · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:01

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00715) £61.99
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99 (£46.99)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £69.99
Abit NF-M2S Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £34.99
Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400C4 TwinX (2x512MB) £43.99
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160HJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £34.99
Samsung SH-182MRSMN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige,Black,Silver) - Retail £18.99
Sub Total : £304.93

Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £55.10
Total : £369.98

My wifes Uncle wants to replace his old system currently an Athlon 650 running ME

Its for web,office,Uni etc no modern games

Is this OK for £350-£400

Thanks

kmistry · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:05

Yes that will be fine for doing everything he needs and with Vista it should work a treat

Will_3rd · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:06

What no dedicated GPU?

kmistry · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:08

I suppose you could squeeze in a 7300LE or something just in case

neillybob · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:09

I assumed the Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Graphics would be good enough

Or is a cheap graphics card a good idea

Indy500 · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:09

Does he really need a dualcore?

neillybob · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:13

For all the differance in price to a 3500 I thought dual core was the best option to keep the system for a while

Will_3rd · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:14

neillybob said:
I assumed the Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Graphics would be good enough

Or is a cheap graphics card a good idea

In retrospect it should be alrite, works fully under Vista.

sr4470 said:
Does he really need a dualcore?

Why not? Might as well.

kmistry · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:15

Yeah agreed, it doesn't really matter tbh as Vista fully supports it, but if you can squeeze it into the budget why not

fester · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:45

Looking good no need for graphs card. The only thing I can think of is the mother board it might be better to go for the Asus M2NPV-VM £49.99 +vat or the Abit NFM2-nView nForce 6150 £59.99+vat.the reason for this is because the description of the Abit NF-M2S is incorrect it has no firewire only to 2 sata port and only 2 ram slots.Go for the Asus if you do not plan to overclock .Both the nvidia gf6100 and gf6150 fully support vista aero the latter also support's hardware mpeg video decoding.The Asus M2NPV-MX £44.99 also has the gf6510 chipset but no firewire.