Thought I would post this as it may be help for others. Have just built a system for the better half and am stunned at the performance for the money. After looking around at cheap prebuilds, I decided to build her one. If anyone is looking for a good solid and very quick system, they might like to consider these parts.
Artic Cooling Case (includes 350W Seasonic PSU and incredibly quiet!!!)
Asus K8N-VM motherboard
AMD Sempron 3100 Processor
512mb Crucial RAM
LG DVD Writer
Hitachi 80gb SATA II harddrive
Ok, so its using the onboard Nividia 6100 integrated graphics, but the board supports PCI graphics cards just in case she has a sudden desire to start playing games in the future (!). What struck me was the quality of the components I was able to get for the price when compared with certain prebuilt boxes you find on the web. The whole lot came to around £250 and to be honest, with the exception of games, there is very little noticable difference between this and my pc in the signature!
So if anyone is looking for a quality system on a budget or any of the parts above, I would certainly recommend them!
Artic Cooling Case (includes 350W Seasonic PSU and incredibly quiet!!!)
Asus K8N-VM motherboard
AMD Sempron 3100 Processor
512mb Crucial RAM
LG DVD Writer
Hitachi 80gb SATA II harddrive
Ok, so its using the onboard Nividia 6100 integrated graphics, but the board supports PCI graphics cards just in case she has a sudden desire to start playing games in the future (!). What struck me was the quality of the components I was able to get for the price when compared with certain prebuilt boxes you find on the web. The whole lot came to around £250 and to be honest, with the exception of games, there is very little noticable difference between this and my pc in the signature!
So if anyone is looking for a quality system on a budget or any of the parts above, I would certainly recommend them!
