Cheap as chips!

[Danz]

Is it possible to build a non gaming pc with in a £200 budget excluding monitor for my friend?

 

[Yewen]

Yes if you go barebones.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Asus_Barebones.html

Just add ram, CPU, hdd and cdrom.

Some also need a PSU aswell.

 

[Danz]

How do they work Can i get that and the rest of the hardware that i need to get it running with in the £200?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Like Yewen says just add CPU, hard drive, optical drive and Ram and away you go. I'd go for something like this given the tight budget, it uses onboard graphics and I'd prefer to have 1gb Ram for even a basic system now but it can't be done with the price. You might also check if it has SATA ports, OcUK says it does, the website says 2x UDMA133 under SATA which cannot be right since SATA is 150 or 300(nominal transfer rates anyway)

FS-030-AS Asus Vintage V2-AE1 Barebones System - AMD Socket 939 (FS-030-AS)
£54.95 £54.95
CP-118-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3200BPBOX) (CP-118-AM)
£49.95 £49.95
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£25.95 £25.95
MY-002-OK OcUK Value 512MB PC3200 184pin DDR Memory (MY-002-OK)
£28.95 £28.95
CD-020-SO Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-020-SO)
£10.50 £10.50
Subtotal £170.30
VAT £29.81
Total £200.11

 

[Yewen]

You cant ask for more for the budget, very very nice.

If you can stretch to 1gb ram it would be worth it, but for a new rig for £200 that is a beast!

Not much future upgradeability, due to AGP but as long as you dont play games you will never miss PCI-E.

 

[Danz]

Cheers fellas