Is this SFF pc any good

Mp4 · 6 Aug 2012 at 07:51

Is this spec any good? Atm its £120(inc delivery) , Don't know if I can make anything decent for the same price.

INTEL PENTIUM D"Dual Core 3.0 GHZ
HDD 80GB
Slim System
4GB DVD ROM
80GB Hard Drive Sata
4 Gb Ram DDR2
DVD PLAYER
Graphic
Palit 1gb Geforce 8400gs Super+ Pci-E 2.0 Graphics Card
PORTS
VGA
DVI
HDMI

Emlyn_Dewar · 7 Aug 2012 at 12:48

Pentium D in a small form factor... *shudder*
I wouldn't.

Guardsmon · 7 Aug 2012 at 14:17

Steer clear. An AMD fusion board would be a lot more powerful - even an Atom/ION combo. Yes you would need to buy a HDD/SSD, optical, case and PSU, but you wouldn't worry about heat, any of it going pop from old age and it'd be a lot quieter.

£120 just not worth it any more in my mind. I'm guessing it could be one of the old E2*** Core 2 duo boards that got rebranded Pentium Duals, but still think I wouldn't get it.

Emlyn_Dewar · 7 Aug 2012 at 16:36

At 3ghz it'll be one of the old Pentium D chips. Would be like an oven.

Mp4 · 7 Aug 2012 at 17:39

Ahh cheers guys ill save my 120 then. So is it impossible to get a semi decent one for 120?

Emlyn_Dewar · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:04

Depends what you've got lying about that could be reused?
What do you need it to do?

You can get very cheap, but not terrible ITX cases with 250w-300w PSUs for under £30.
I've used one before and was surprised that it wasn't utter tripe. Wouldn't hook it up to power hungry kit or decent GPUs, but it'd do to start off.

Can pick up an ITX motherboard with 16x PCI-e, 4gb DDR3 and a Celeron G530 for under £120 new on OcUK, so if you looked around at the used market, would probably be quite easy to build something on the cheap.