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.

 

[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

 

[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.

 

[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!