Computer on a budget.

[Brum Man]

Notice how I managed to avoid the use of the word 'spec' in the title!

Basically I have a friend who is looking for a new computer, he was initially thinking if buying one ready made but I suggested building one.

He has a budget of £600 and needs everything bar the monitor. So,

cpu - Was thinking Opteron?
ram - 2 gig
gfx
HDD - 200gig is poss or more.
case
power supply
dvd burner
dvd rom etc
keyboard/mouse (wired) etc.........

He wants 2 gig of RAM as a must, but that is the only thing that he has specified. He has also said that he isn't as bothered about the graphics card as he more bothered about a good CPU and as mentioned 2gig of ram, but he'd still like somthing fairly decent.

So see what you can do.

 

[Lakeland]

MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) 1
£109.95 £109.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) 1
£61.95 £61.95
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) 1
£65.95 £65.95
GX-032-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X300SE 256MB Hyper Memory DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (RX300LE-256) (GX-032-HT) 1
£32.95 £32.95
HD-017-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2004C 200GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-017-SA) 1
£57.95 £57.95
CD-030-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE) 1
£24.95 £24.95
CP-152-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) 1
£164.95 £164.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) 1
£14.50 £14.50
KB-011-LG Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard (Black) - OEM (KB-011-LG) 1
£8.95 £8.95
KB-047-LG Logitech S96 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse Sea Grey - OEM (KB-047-LG) 1
£5.50 £5.50
Subtotal £547.60
VAT £95.83
Total £643.43


over budget i know, but its got a dual core in there


MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£109.95 £109.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£61.95 £61.95
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£65.95 £65.95
GX-032-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X300SE 256MB Hyper Memory DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (RX300LE-256) (GX-032-HT)
£32.95 £32.95
HD-017-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2004C 200GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-017-SA)
£57.95 £57.95
CD-030-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE)
£24.95 £24.95
KB-011-LG Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard (Black) - OEM (KB-011-LG)
£8.95 £8.95
KB-047-LG Logitech S96 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse Sea Grey - OEM (KB-047-LG)
£5.50 £5.50
CP-142-AM AMD Opteron UP 146 San Diego 2.0GHz 1MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-142-AM)
£138.95 £138.95
Subtotal £507.10
VAT £88.75
Total £595.85



thats with an opty 146 (might be better getting a second hand one) to lower the price to BELOW your budget

 

[Brum Man]

I was also thinking the Antec case as it's a good case with a good PSU for a very good price.

That GFX is looking nasty though

 

[Vegeta]

Your looking to sacrifice something if you want a opteron, 2gig and 200gb for a £600 budget, best thing to do is buy the main components second hand and buy like case etc brand new if budget is tight.

 

[Lakeland]

i think i might have took the "he isnt bothered about the graphics" to the extreme lol

id go with what Vegeta said, but personally id get a new hd, just a preferance though

 

[Brum Man]

What card would you recommend if you took the graphics card out of the bottom setup, and gave a budget of say £150 just for the card to put in there?

Also he's need another DVD-Rom drive in to enable copying on the fly.

 

[Vegeta]

I think your mates wants everything for nothing , for £150 at a second hand budget he could possibly get a low end 7800gt?, 1800 series card, brand new hes looking at a 6800gs/x800 series card.

 

[Brum Man]

I think your mates wants everything for nothing , for £150 at a second hand budget he could possibly get a low end 7800gt?, 1800 series card, brand new hes looking at a 6800gs/x800 series card.

Lol, doesn't everyone! I'm speaking to him tonight so I'll see what he wants to do. I'm trying to steer him away from pre-built though!

 

[Lakeland]

there are a few gto2 going in metro mart for 100 ish