Cheapy spec needed.

Flibster · 5 Sep 2006 at 00:24

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!! :eek:

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

Flibster · 5 Sep 2006 at 11:21

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

Flibster · 5 Sep 2006 at 12:38

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

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