Need A New Desktop

shiner

shiner

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I have about £300 to buy a new desktop PC, its won't be used for gaming just web browsing, some video editing and encrypting and video playback.

I've been browsing ready built systems but may decide to build this one depending on what works out better.

Any advice would be great please
 
And a case + optical drive for that matter :)

If you have all the above, you could get a fair decent system for £300 if its just the motherboard/cpu/ram you need....maybe psu as well depending on what you have already.
 
I have a 22" monitor, decent keyboard & mouse etc. I just need the case and internals.

I have an optical drive (dvdr/rw) and a 350w PSU.
 
Well when he said he needed a desktop PC i assumed he would need a case and all the drives.

But a TFT will take quite a huge chunk out of the budget, as would an OS

Hows about this, comes to £300 excluding delivery :

Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650/HTDI/256M HD 3650 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £42.99
(£50.51) £42.99
(£50.51)
Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
Foxconn P35AX-S Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £23.99
(£28.19) £23.99
(£28.19)
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS) £33.99
(£39.94) £33.99
(£39.94)
Sub Total : £255.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £46.70
Total : £313.58
 
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OcUK GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Samsung SpinPoint S 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD250HJ) £35.99
(£42.29) £35.99
(£42.29)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £23.99
(£28.19) £23.99
(£28.19)
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Sub Total : £206.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £37.96
Total : £254.85

Not much difference to meatloaf really. Just built the above for my little sister and it suits her down to the ground. Same requirements as Shiner, but allows the odd game to be played without trouble.

And should you decide overclocking is necessary, the ds3l's the mutz nuts.

:)
 
Thanks for the suggestions, will these boards take the newer CPU's if I decide to upgradeat a later date?
 
Great I'm limited on cash this month as the missus has just refitted the living room with new everything so might be an idea I can upgrade the CPU & RAM at a later date :)
 
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