PC Build for £180?

Drake5 · 3 Feb 2011 at 16:12

Would it be possible to build a cheap C2D PC for £180? Could some one please knock me a spec up for around that price?

Cheers

Grimley · 3 Feb 2011 at 16:51

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.93GHz (1066FSB) - Retail Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.93GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Asus P5G41T-M LX G41 (Socket 775) DDR3 Motherboard Asus P5G41T-M LX G41 (Socket 775) DDR3 Motherboard £34.99
(£29.16) £34.99
(£29.16)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST3250318AS) Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST3250318AS) £27.98
(£23.32) £27.98
(£23.32)
OCUK EZCool NA-705 Case - Black (500w PSU) OCUK EZCool NA-705 Case - Black (500w PSU) £23.99
(£19.99) £23.99
(£19.99)
Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £19.99
(£16.66) £19.99
(£16.66)
Sub Total : £139.12
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £29.97
Total : £179.84

Just under but I'd try & stretch the budget a bit more to get this PSU.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-033-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

VFM Addict · 3 Feb 2011 at 17:31

Just a thought.

If you swap out the E6500 for an Athlon II x3 445 and the Asus mobo for the Asrock N68C-S UCC but leave everything else the same then you have a Tri-core system for exactly the same money. Plus the 445 may also unlock to a quad.

See - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-269-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=

and - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-028-AK&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=

Greavesy · 3 Feb 2011 at 18:10

Add 25 to the build from grimley and you can get a core 2 quad from the clearance lines

. There may also be some cheaper ram and mobo's in there.

angela · 3 Feb 2011 at 21:15

I think better buy second hand PC for such money, I bought c2d E6550, 2gb Ram, 320HDD, 8400gs, vista 32bit +case/psu: HP PC for £120 (but I guess I was lucky)

Greavesy · 3 Feb 2011 at 21:58

Corsair Builder Series CX 430W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUK) £38.99

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £29.99

**B Grade** Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2 AMD 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 (MB-253-GI) £28.79

Coolermaster Elite 342 Case - Black Coolermaster Elite 342 Case - Black
£24.98

OCZ Gold 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (OCZ3G1333LV2G) £19.99

Samsung TS-H353A/HPBH SATA 16x48 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM
£10.98

This comes to £155.82 with your free shipping, throw in an athlon dual core when/if they come back into the clearance lines for £29.99.
Sorry's its not intel but its got all but a graphics card