Cheap system for friend

miracleboy · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:07

A friend needs a really cheap system, just to use for internet, mail and serving media to his 360 - he's found this one, is it any good, and could it be formatted and Vista/XP installed?

Intel Celeron 3.2 GHz
1024MB DDR II RAM
160GB Hard Disk Drive
DVD/Combo drive
VIA PM 900 Pro Motherboard
Integrated shared 64MB Graphics
5.1 channel AC’97 Sound
6 x USB 2.0 Ports
Integrated Ethernet 10/100 Mbps
1 x AGP 8x , 3 x PCI
Inwin Casing
Enhance 350W PSU
Multimedia Keyboard
Optical Scroll Mouse
Linux Ubuntu

It's £149.99

miracleboy · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:10

Or the alternative (as his current PC the PSU and MB have both gone) - would it be better to buy a new MB, CPU and PSU and build a system around his current drives/gfx card?

Any suggestions on cheap but decent MB/CPU/PSU?

bizzare6543 · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:20

Whats the current gfx card though?

miracleboy · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:35

Yeah not sure right now - I asked him for the make and model of the graphics card, RAM and hard drives to get the right bits.

Thanks for the spec, could we maybe save some money by going with a cheap AMD FX chip? Also I don't think his RAM will be DDR2 spec.

Would we get away with a cheaper and less powerful PSU given theres no major kit in there, I think his graphics card is pretty old.