Cheap £300-£400 desktop computer????

ballbern

ballbern

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Can anyone suggest were I can get a cheap £300-£400 desktop? I’m looking for something with an i5 or an equivalent AMD processor and not with integrated graphics. My old desktop is about 10 years old and its starting to struggle with the new Adobe suite.

I found this one at Dell is this about as cheap as ill get or would it be cheaper to build one?

Thanks.
 
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At that price range it is very difficult as you have to by a copy of windows which for system builders is a lot more than Dell get it for.
Standard Windows 8 is £80 which doesn't leave you with a lot to play with

Intel Build:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £149.99
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX2 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x KFA2 GeForce™ GT620 1024MB GDDR3 64bit Low Profile DVI/HDMI/VGA/PCI-E Graphics Card £37.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £28.99
Total : £499.92 (includes shipping : FREE).



AMD Build:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Bulldozer FX-6 Six Core 6100 Black Edition 3.30Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD £46.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce™ GT620 2048MB GDDR3 64bit DVI/VGA/PCI-E Graphics Card £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard II Midi Tower Case - Black/Silver £29.99
Total : £424.91 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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Hi and welcome to the forum.

Can you list the following components, make and model.
Case.
Psu.
Harddrives and optical drive, sata or ide?
What OS do you currently have?
That way we can see what can be reused.

You might also want to remove the link, as it is against forum rules to post links to competitors. Just a friendly heads up.
 
Sorry about the link.

Advent 3219

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz HT

Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128MB) 64bit

Motherboard: ECS SF2

The hdd are all sata and could prob plug the dvd drive in to the new mother board as well. Im ok for an OS also..
 
ballbern said:
Sorry about the link.

Advent 3219

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz HT

Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128MB) 64bit

Motherboard: ECS SF2

The hdd are all sata and could prob plug the dvd drive in to the new mother board as well. Im ok for an OS also..
Click to expand...

What about your Psu and case?
 
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The PSU is 300watt. Not sure about the case but its just the standard case that came with the advent.

I had a look and found these components. How does this look and could I do better?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-313-AM

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-098-KS

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-415-GI

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-021-XG

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-063-OC

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-149-MS

£288.44



Also, Its not for gaming' I use a lot of Adobe produces and usually have 3 or 4 running at once, I render video and graphics a lot so out of the two processors, i5 and AMD 6 core bulldozer what one will handle the work load better?

Thanks guys.
 
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