PC Spec Help

[LiamD]

Hi all,

It's been a while since I bought any componants, and my family and I are looking at getting my Dad a new computer for christmas. We are going to have around £200-£250 to spend. We won't need any optical drives/RAM/Keyboard/Mouse or a monitor.

I have literally chucked a couple of items in the basket, and was wondering if anyone could come up with a better spec for around the same price?

many thanks.

 

[95thrifles]

If you can wait til they get the mobo's back in stock, get this

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 620 2.60GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99 (£69.56)
Asus M4A785D-M Pro AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £58.98 (£51.29)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £36.98 (£32.16)
Xigmatek Asgard Mid-Tower Case - Black £29.99 (£26.08)
Sub Total : £179.09
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £28.29
Total : £216.88

case is personal choice but I was thinking your dad might prefer something without LEDs
This is better build because Intels s775 is end of line, so he'll be unlikely to be able to upgrade that, where as this from AMD is still going strong, so if he needed to upgrade it for any reason he's more likely to be able to
Has onboard gfx which is bery good and uses a quad core cpu, also put better and bigger HDD in there

 

[LiamD]

Would the onboard gfx be better than the gfx card I chose?

Thanks for the help so far..

 

[LiamD]

shameless bump.

I have put together another lot of componants, can anyone check to see if they are compatible?