Complete PC for under £400??

[Lysander]

My gf wants a new PC, unfortunately she only has a budget of £400 all in, including monitor and OS.

I'm been looking around OCuK and I can't see a way of doing this. Any ideas how this could work?!

 

[A[L]C]

members market

 

[Van Diemen]

For £400 its kinda hard, a £100 more can get you PC.

There is one idea (I never thought I would ever say this - Oh, the shame), Just pop into one of those high street retailers & pick up an out of the box PC.

But I would try MM first

 

[Deiwos]

Complete PC for £400? Probably looking second hand, or a cheap unit from one of the high street retailers.

 

[gumbald]

Linux = free OS

I'm sure you could build something much higher quality than out of the box for £400 therefore...

Edit: thinking about it, maybe you won't be able to fit everything in including the monitor, forgot to calculate that in...

 

[hp7909]

Tried...

• NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
• Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £25.99
• Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System - AMD Socket AM2 £59.99
• AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £54.99
• Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-4200C4 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT6464AA53E) £51.99
• OcUK Value Hanns-G HC174D 17" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black £94.99
• Logitech Deluxe Keyboard (Black) - OEM £5.49
• Logitech S96 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse Black - OEM £4.49
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) £49.99
• Sub Total : £364.91
• Shipping : £9.95
• Vat : £65.60
• Total : £440.46

 

[Minstadave]

My gf wants a new PC, unfortunately she only has a budget of £400 all in, including monitor and OS.

I'm been looking around OCuK and I can't see a way of doing this. Any ideas how this could work?!

You could get her a cheap laptop for that price, I guess she won't be doing anything too heavy duty.

 

[Lysander]

You could get her a cheap laptop for that price, I guess she won't be doing anything too heavy duty.

True - she's a girl, it's not like she's going to be playing games and looking at porn all the time.

/sexism

 

[Trigger]

I built a system at work the other week for £165 (inc VAT) It had:

AMD Sempron 64 3000+ (Skt 754)
Asus K8V-VM
512MB PC3200 DDR400 Memory
80GB Seagate SATA Hard Drive
Cheap black and silver case with 400W PSU
Sony DVD-ROM Drive
Onboard Video and Sound

Add on a cheap 17" LCD for about £90, Windows XP Home SP2 for £65, keyboard, mouse and speakers for £30 and you have an entire system for the grand total of £350. Was very nippy when I installed XP Pro on it as well and was still nice and responsive when I had finished installing all the programs

EDIT: You could even stick Vista Home Premium on it for an extra £10 and add in a £30 PCI-E graphics card to allow her to use the aero interface and you'd still be under budget

 

[taz488]

i reckon youd be best buying someones whole pc from MM, as people on here care about computers so will have built a good system, and i rekcon youll get a decent skt 939 pc.

 

[Van Diemen]

I built a system at work the other week for £165 (inc VAT) It had:

AMD Sempron 64 3000+ (Skt 754)
Asus K8V-VM
512MB PC3200 DDR400 Memory
80GB Seagate SATA Hard Drive
Cheap black and silver case with 400W PSU
Sony DVD-ROM Drive
Onboard Video and Sound

Add on a cheap 17" LCD for about £90, Windows XP Home SP2 for £65, keyboard, mouse and speakers for £30 and you have an entire system for the grand total of £350. Was very nippy when I installed XP Pro on it as well and was still nice and responsive when I had finished installing all the programs

EDIT: You could even stick Vista Home Premium on it for an extra £10 and add in a £30 PCI-E graphics card to allow her to use the aero interface and you'd still be under budget

Im sure they want their 400 to give them a PC that will give thenm a good few years. 400 will get them a PC with better spec then that & vista from the high street. I have found building a low end PC cost more then out of the box PC's.