Cheapy spec needed.

[Flibster]

Other half's mum has a brokened pc...

Was 'fixed' by a 'professional' - and now it doesn't boot and all the parts were 2nd hand and she's paid brand new *and a bit* prices and £200 in labour!!

So what I'm thinking as a cheap upgrade is:

Pentium D 805
Suitable motherboard *no idea what - AMD person myself*
Cheapish PCI express card *or even onboard graphics would do...*
Heatsink
1gb of DDR2
2x160gb hdd's *she like redundency*
Possibly a cheapish case.

As I said above - as cheap as possible would be nice.

Any suggestions as she wants Intel and I have no idea.

Simon/~Flibster

 

[semi-pro waster]

Something like this ought to do, the motherboard doesn't list that it has Raid so if you wanted Raid1 for the redundancy you might need to change but it should support the CPU and has onboard graphics.

CP-116-IN Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN)
£61.99 £61.99
MB-004-AK Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-004-AK)
£45.99 £45.99
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£69.99 £69.99
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA)
£33.95 £67.90
CD-037-NE NEC ND3550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-037-NE)
£19.95 £19.95
CA-052-AN Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU (CA-052-AN)
£43.99 £43.99
Subtotal £309.81
VAT £54.22
Total £364.03

 

[Flibster]

That looks pretty cool actually.

Can drop the DVD drive and add an extra gig of DDR2 *and possibly a good heatsink to O/C to 3.33ghz* as that'll keep her more than happy for a while.

That should run nicely.

Cheers.

Simon/~Flibster

 

[semi-pro waster]

No bother, I don't know how the well the motherboard overclocks though so you may have to reign back your overclocking urges a shade.

 

[Flibster]

It appears to be happy running the 805 at 3.33ghz - that'll do nicely.

It's effectively a free upgrade really so

Simon/~Flibster

[edit]
Aaaand ordered with 2gb of geil and a Arctic Freezer hsf added
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