PC circa £300

sydeccles · 15 Jun 2010 at 17:33

Need a budget PC circa £300, Opteron 939 system finally gone to the grave yard.
Already Have
Win 7 X64 bit
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor
PSU
Hard Drive
CPU cooler

Need
Mobo
Memory
Graphics card
Case

Or is it better to buy one of Overclockers bungles such as

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-032-OB&groupid=43&catid=339&subcat=1804

The Xenon Intel Pentium Dual Core E6500 2.93GHz @ 3.40GHz Overclocked Bundle £234.99 inc VAT & then buy a PCIE Graphics card.

Thanks in advance
Syd

Marvin · 15 Jun 2010 at 21:42

I think you've missed the CPU from your list.

What's it going to be used for? Budget gaming? Rendering?

stulid · 15 Jun 2010 at 22:02

sydeccles · 16 Jun 2010 at 07:14

Correct, I need a new CPU as well. The Opteron 146 set up did all that I needed, this is a second PC and will be for general use and some gaming.

Trouble is my last build (my main PC) was an E2180 (see signature) so am a tad out of touch as what way to go Intel ir AMD.

Syd

sydeccles · 16 Jun 2010 at 13:29

Anyone any thoughts on buying one of overclockers prebuilt systems

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-239-OK&tool=3

It's a pity you could not pay the extra and get the case upgraded to a Midi, at least you could then fit a graphics card.

mrteabag · 16 Jun 2010 at 18:30

If you could up the budget it would make a lot of difference.You could get a 5770 and a phenom II if you did

sydeccles · 17 Jun 2010 at 16:59

OK, have tweeked the budget to a tad under £500

HD-206-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(ST3500418AS)
CD-099-LG OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
CP-321-IN Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.93GHz
(1066FSB) - Retail
CB-037-OK OcUK Value Molex to SATA Power Adapter (RB-414)
MB-220-GI Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L Intel G41 (Socket 775) DDR2 microATX
Motherboard
MY-039-KS Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual
Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G)
GX-219-AS Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CuCore 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express
Graphics Card
CA-160-CM Coolermaster Elite 335 Case - Black
CA-045-OC OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply

Syd

Redmint · 17 Jun 2010 at 17:09

Also a bit under 500, however this has a quad core and DDR3