Cheapest you have built a pc for?

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My ex wife has broken her 5 year old mac and can't afford to replace it. It was used mainly for internet browsing so it was fine for that.

My "task" is to try and build the cheapest pc I can for her and my daughter. My daughter uses it for youtube and playing flash games.

I'm going to be visiting the MM a lot in the hope I can put together an internet browsing pc for them in as little a budget I can get.

I think a dual core cpu is a must though as a single core is not good enough and a quad is going to be expensive (in terms of an extreme budget build)

I'm looking to aim to build it for less than £100 if I can...just to see what I can get for that price.

Have you put a cheap PC together before? If so how much did it cost you and what sort of components did you get?
 
I would consider asking for some parts like case, kb, mouse on your local Freecycle group.

I've given away more or less complete but old computers on Freecycle before, other people must have as well.
 
It might be worth seeing if mates, colleagues etc have broken computers anywhere. I can't imagine the entire system would be completely dead, so you might be able to salvage a nice cpu.
 
drakioned said:
I would consider asking for some parts like case, kb, mouse on your local Freecycle group.

I've given away more or less complete but old computers on Freecycle before, other people must have as well.
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Can you please not refer people to other websites dude. Read the rules and FAQ's if in doubt. Don't want you to get into trouble dude.

For £100 you are not going to get much. Maybe an old P4 or Pentium/Athlon Dual core running XP with a gb of ram or so.

I would look around the MM or post a wanted advert in the wanted section of the MM.

Best way to get something really cheap, even a cheap laptop would do.

Hope this helps.
 
occassionally I have seen computers being sold that cheap in charity shops etc but they are few and far between. Get what you can for free, or close to from other sources. Also keep an eye on online auction sites, if you dont mind buying much older components, you can get some real bargains. You also get people sometimes selling off an old machine cheap to fund a new one / something else. MM is also a good bet I should think
 
Usually I'd never use the PSU that comes with a case but if you wanted new something like this could do it -

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus F1A55-M LX AMD A55 (Socket FM1) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
1 x AMD Llano A4-3300 2.50GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3300OJGXBOX) £49.99
1 x OcUK Opera Media Case - Black (with 500W PSU) £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1333C9D3B1K2/4G) £19.99
Total : £171.96 (includes shipping : £10.00).




Even bottom of the barrel new stuff is over budget though :(
 
You would probably be looking at a core 2 duo setup, there still reasonably powerful and will more than do for your daughters needs.

Aim for something like an e21xx, 2gig of ram, 160gb hard drive.

The problem is hard drives, they're quite expensive now. Post in the wanted section of mm asking for donations/cheap stuff you never know what you will get.
 
CinderzFTW said:
Can you please not refer people to other websites dude. Read the rules and FAQ's if in doubt. Don't want you to get into trouble dude.
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I don't think the local Freecycle group could be classed as a competitor, there's no selling going on, it's just a place where people post up their unwanted/wanted goods to prevent things going into a landfill.
 
Thanks for the info folks. I'm gunning to try and get something for less than £100 all in. I'm off to scrounge what I can off the good peeps in MM :)
 
I managed to put a brand new computer together for £120 with a 320GB HDD (before price rise).

Ive put an almost new computer together for £60, but it died about 3 days after because of the dodgey PSU.
 
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