PC Spec - Very tight budget..

[IwantanewPC]

My brother wants me to build him a PC. He wants the PC for Internet surfing and music mainly but he also wants to play World Of Warcraft and probably the expansion pack whenever it's out.

His budget is £350..

He has a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.

This possible?

 

[vincent1989]

don't think I'm up to the challenge could manage 511 inc VAT and P&P, tell me if this is alright and i will post it, some of the stuff is probably a little O.T.T. but it's nothing like a core 2 duo or anything

so yea, I'll post what i got if you really want me to

 

[hp7909]

My brother wants me to build him a PC. He wants the PC for Internet surfing and music mainly but he also wants to play World Of Warcraft and probably the expansion pack whenever it's out.

His budget is £350..

He has a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.

This possible?

Let me try...

• Gigabyte GA_M51GM-S2G Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-056-GI) £49.99
• GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL) £79.99
• Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA) £25.99
• Liteon DRW-6S160P-05C 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-059-LO) £16.95
• Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU (CA-052-AN) £41.99
• AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.80GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-162-AM) £44.99
• OcUK GeForce 7300 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-040-OK) £49.99
• Subtotal £309.89
• VAT £54.24
• Total £364.13

Mobo has (good) onboard graphics, but that GFX would make a big difference compared

 

[wizardmaxx]

Nice one HP

My Intel Recommendation - save up for Core2Duo !!!

CA-035-AN Antec Performance TX1088AMG Metallic Grey Tower Case - 480w Truepower PSU (CA-035-AN)
£38.99 £38.99
MB-004-AK Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-004-AK)
£45.99 £45.99
CP-116-IN Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN)
£61.99 £61.99
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£79.99 £79.99
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£25.99 £25.99
CD-042-NE NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-042-NE)
£18.99 £18.99
GX-040-OK OcUK GeForce 7300 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-040-OK)
£49.99 £49.99
Subtotal £321.93
VAT £56.34
Total £378.27

 

[FunkyCowie]

I had the same budget for a friend and spec'd him this

Asrock ALiveNF4G-DVI (Socket AM2) PCI-Express Motherboard £39.99
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £94.99
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) £79.99
Antec Performance TX1088AMG Metallic Grey Tower Case - 480w Truepower PSU £38.99
Sony AW-G170ASV 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer - (Silver) OEM £18.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £28.99
Subtotal £301.94
VAT £52.84
Total £354.78

The mobo comes with fairly good onboard gfx and leaves it open for an AM2 upgrade later on and a PCI-E gfx card.

 

[Hamoodii]

Cheap build (mainly second hand parts

-3000/3200 Venice, 30-40 quid
-DFI Ultra-D 50 odd quid
-7600GT 70ish
-2GB Value 90ish

Or save up and push your budget to 650 and go conroe!

 

[Ender]

i would go with wizard max, as it offers the best upgradability path with core 2 duo, also there is a LOT of difference playing with onboard graphics to a proper graphics card ,and the 7300gt should manage it fine