Jerry-at-trick seeks help

coilpack

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Hi Guys - wonder if anyone can help on this one please.

After 6 years my PCChips board has packed in, so need
some help in getting another pc together.

Have £450 to spend - would like to try one of the Intel chips.

I have a monitor, cd writer and a 80gb ide hard drive from
the old machine.

I basically need the machine for the internet and my digital
camera.

Any help on selecting some new gear would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any input.
 
I've kept it under budget but I've included a new hard drive and optical drive on the basis that they are so cheap and will perform significantly better than your existing models. I don't know if you need an OS or not but this would give you a chance to try Vista if you wanted, the graphics card is fairly decent overall as well. What is your current monitor? If you don't need an OS then you could possibly squeeze a 19" TFT into the budget with a bit of a re-jig or near enough. :)

Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU £57.99
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GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £31.99
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Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99
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OcUK ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
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NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.99
(£18.79) £15.99
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Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A33423) £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
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Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £46.99
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Because your not gaming Onboard sound and graphics will be fine. You dont sound like the sort who needs a fast pc and therefore i dont think you should waste your money going intel. They are faster but it doesn't sound like you need that sort of speed. If you go amd your looking at a very cheap system.

Here is my spec. Add 45-50 quid for a mobo with onboard sound and graphics as youll need to buy it from else where where it is infact 10 quid cheaper i beleive then ocuk lol.

Add this mobo into this spec and it will play up to 1080i so it will do you:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...d=5&subcat=807

If you need help finding the mobo elsewhere my msn is in my trust.

With this spec and the added cost of the mobo your looking at around £340. O and this contains the 32bit version of vista which means you can only have 2gb of ram really (3.2gb but generaly you either have 2 or 4gb). If you really think youd need 4gb then you might want to get 64bit.

I went 32bit primaraly because there is less problems with drivers even though they are mostly sorted out. its unneeded hassel for someone that doesn't game.

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For intel you would be doing well if you went for this spec, this is a more powerful spec but i dont think you need this much power if you only build a pc every 6 years:

O and this contains the 32bit version of vista which means you can only have 2gb of ram really (3.2gb but generaly you either have 2 or 4gb). If you really think youd need 4gb then you might want to get 64bit.

I went 32bit primaraly because there is less problems with drivers even though they are mostly sorted out. its unneeded hassel for someone that doesn't game.

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Wow! Thanks guys

Wow!! many thanks guys for coming back so soon with
your advice. Very impressive suggestions, will have a
good study of them right away.

Not sure when you said that the speed would not be
that important. I hope to be able to use it with my
digital camera and printer etc, so I always thought
the cpu + memory speed would be the main thing.

If I thought I could build a machine to last another
6 yrs, then would not mind paying more money for
something better, but guess that would be a whole new
ball game so would need to buff up on that.


Not worried about the O/S as I use Linux, so will be
able to save on that.

Thank you again for your most welcome suggestions.

Will come back again If I may, for more advice.

Regards
 
:) ty lol. Gues you were hoping to steal the specing but i got there first :p

I quite like the costs of the intergrated vga mobos as that is very cheap. 340 quid tops is good for whats there.

Think i should have put it as 64bit just so he can add 4gb if he wanted but i doubt he will.
 
This is slightly overbudget but is much faster than the others, owing to its quad core processor.
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The graphics card should be an excellent choice for Linux since this is the card for which AMD released the technical specifications. The Mono team at Novell are working on a fully GPL'd 3D driver for it based on those specs. For not I think it's 2D-only but the proprietary driver will work until they're done. :)
 
Youve not got an os in there. I think he needs vista as well as its a 6 year old pc.

But i dont think spending over 450 quid is really needed. A quad core will speed things up if you do a lot of encoding. But i think keep to a duel core and get 4gb of ram if you just deal with a lot of pictures. I think ram will speed things up more then 4 cores when 2 are already not being maxed out.
 
8igdave said:
Youve not got an os in there. I think he needs vista as well as its a 6 year old pc.
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No, he doesn't.
coilpack said:
Not worried about the O/S as I use Linux, so will be
able to save on that.
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That's why I spent so much of my post talking about Linux.

My opinion is that if it's to last another 6 years it might as well start off with a fast, feature-rich processor. If the budget's 450, which is certainly not luxuriant, and I can go 6 quid over and still get a fast quad core in I'm going to try to do it.
 
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