HELP! Spec me NOW after PC died.

[Vans]

Well, I cant test anymore. Its not the PSU, memory, CPU or gfx do must be the mobo although power is getting to it. Press the button, everything whirs into life then dies. No beeps nothing.

As this rig is 4 years old its time for an upgrade. Core 2 Duo would be great. Dont need gfx but needs to be able to handle vista.
What I need:

Mobo
CPU
Memory (2Gb preferred)
Hard Drive

£300 to spend really.

Its just a home PC, nothing more than word, email and internet. With this in mind, do i really need Vista Business? (not included in the above budget)

Pls Help!

 

[mp260767]

nah vista home premium will be fine.

could drop the hard drive to something like the seagate 250gd, memory to 2gb and up the processor to the q6600 as other options.

Samsung SpinPoint F1 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD642JJ) £52.99 (£62.26)

Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99 (£70.49)

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £59.99 (£70.49)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £44.99
(£52.86)

Sub Total : £217.96
Shipping : £8.25
VAT : £39.59
Total : £265.80

 

[Vans]

nah vista home premium will be fine.

could drop the hard drive to something like the seagate 250gd, memory to 2gb and up the processor to the q6600 as other options.

Samsung SpinPoint F1 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD642JJ) £52.99 (£62.26)

Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99 (£70.49)

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £59.99 (£70.49)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £44.99
(£52.86)

Sub Total : £217.96
Shipping : £8.25
VAT : £39.59
Total : £265.80

Are there any boards you'd recommend that had onboard VGA?

 

[mp260767]

Are there any boards you'd recommend that had onboard VGA?

have a look at the Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H GeForce 7100 Micro-ATX.

 

[Ben M]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17882496

^ for ideas

 

[Vans]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17882496

^ for ideas

Thanks

How is this?

E6550 C2D CPU
Kingston 2GB DDR6400
WD 320Gb HD
Vista HP
Gigabyte GA 73PVM

 

[Ben M]

I wouldn't buy an E6550, they are old tech. Replace it with an E7200 or E8200

Replace the HDD with this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...nt F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)
Everyone praises the F1 drives, they are meant to be fantastic. And it has more capacity than the WD you specified.

I don't know what kingston RAM is like, but perhaps this is better:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... 2GB DDR2 XMS2 DHX PC2-6400C4DHX TwinX (2x1GB)

 

[Uriel]

I wouldn't buy an E6550, they are old tech. Replace it with an E7200 or E8200

For Word, email and internet?

Get whatever CPU is cheapest! I vote Celeron E1200.

 

[Ben M]

For Word, email and internet?

Get whatever CPU is cheapest! I vote Celeron E1200.

Whoops I didn't look at that.

In that case, I would say get an E2180, or an E2200 if you're not overclocking.