Extremely low budget, advice needed.

[revolutionrock]

As the title says, I need some help putting togethor a very low price system

Its for my brother. Now we already have a , case, Hard Drive and a psu.

So we need a Mobo, CPU, Ram, Sound Card( Music Student) and possibly a GPU( this is not essential, but It would be a nice perk. Maybe a 2nd Hand one? )

So to the budget, We would not want to go over £200, and thats pushing it. I know this is very small, but hopefully it will be a challenge for you!

I thought about AMD , as this is known to be cheaper and this is what we need!

Any advice will be greatly appreciated

 

[mp260767]

i'd check out the members market for most the bits and post in the sound forum for advice about the sound card, detailing what sort of music work hes likely to be doing.

 

[Ben M]

a decent soundcard won't cost much less than £200 =\

 

[PCDave]

Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card (Low Profile Compatible) - Retail £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)

OcUK GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)

Intel Celeron E1200 1.6Ghz Dual-Core Processor (LGA775) / Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H GeForce 7100 Micro-ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express Motherboard / GeIL 2GB PC2-6400C4 800MHz Bundle £87.47
(£102.78) £87.47
(£102.78
would have personally gone for the next intel bundle up on this budget but its out of stock

this should be able to meet your brothers needs

 

[revolutionrock]

thoughts?

 

[shaffaaf27]

 

[Jensen]

If he's a music student replace the Xonars above with the M-Audio Audiophile 2496, which can be had from music specialists for around £45

 

[decto]

Have a hunt in the Members market ... you can post in the wanted section and see what offers come your way.

AD

 

[revolutionrock]

I think we will go for AMD.

Think well buy the ram/cpu/mobo all brand new , and seek the rest 2nd hand in the members marke

 

[revolutionrock]

Started to buy them.

This is what i have got so far.

Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI AMD 780G Micro-ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard


AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 2.70GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

But having got the mobo home, I have just discovered my PSU is 20Pin, when i need a 24pin ffs.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Started to buy them.

This is what i have got so far.

Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI AMD 780G Micro-ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard


AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 2.70GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

But having got the mobo home, I have just discovered my PSU is 20Pin, when i need a 24pin ffs.

Just get a 20 -24 pin adaptor

 

[decto]

Started to buy them.

This is what i have got so far.

Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI AMD 780G Micro-ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard


AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 2.70GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

But having got the mobo home, I have just discovered my PSU is 20Pin, when i need a 24pin ffs.

As long as you have the 20pin and the EPS +12v four pin to connect to the seperate socket by the CPU then it should be fine.

I still use my trusty old enermax for testing and I haven't come across a board yet that doesn't like having only 20 pins.

AD

 

[revolutionrock]

oh right.

Looks like Im building it then!

Cheers for that.