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My parents main PC has finally given up. As the PC is quite ancient (from 2003), I'm looking to replace it with something cheap.

The only reusable parts are the Lian Li case and the hard drives. Not sure what the PSU is.

Their requirements:
Occasional web browsing.
As they need a machine to backup their laptops I was considering installing WHS (currently, they were backing up manually to the pc)

The PC will be hardly on, so I’m looking to spend as little as possible ~200 quid.
Onboard video is fine,
CPU/RAM/Motherboard
Possibly a PSU
 
My father in law needed the same requirements. Go onto ****** and look at the systems on there and you will find a Pentium Extra Value system which was absolutely fine for them. Faster than their old AMD 3200 that I built but doesn't come with OS so as long as you have a retail copy of Windows your OK to transfer over. Or if you don't and want to save money then download Ubuntu or Fedora as they are GNU and come with a nice set of free apps and more you can download in the community.
 
is it really required as anything other than backup of the laptops, if its not then maybe get a couple of portable hard drives rather than a new pc.
 
If you shop around you can get an eMachines ER1401 nettop for around £130. It has a 1.3GHZ Athlon II X2,2GB of DDR3.a 250GB hard drive,a Nvidia 9200 IGP and a wireless card. It comes with Linux installed.
 
Thank you for the replies.
Reason behind getting them a new PC, is that i want to get them a XBMC thin client at some point, so this PC could serve all the media.

I'm tempted to buy them a thin client now, and then building a server later.

What are the latest thin clients out there? I remember the Acer Aspire Revo R3700 was pretty decent over a year ago. Or are there better things out there now?
 
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