**second hand rig**£150 budget

[wiggyuk]

I was wondering if you gurus could share you knowledge on this one with me.

My dads girlfriend currently as a:-

Packard Bell

• Cyrix M II-333
• 62mb Ram
• Win 98 SE
• C Drive 16GB
• D Drive 2GB
• SIS 5597/5598

The kids use it for school work and surfing the net, she asked me to look at the above system but to be honest it is beyond help so I was thinking of building her a new rig maybe from second hand parts I was thinking mayber a AMD64 to keep the price down what do you guys suggest and waht do you think I would be able to get for this price ?

 

[Lolcb]

Get a budget. To be honest, 150 is a bit low.

 

[SidewinderINC]

for £150 you're mainly stuck to 32bit, maybe a socket A system.

you can pick up a 2nd hand motherboard, CPU and heatsink bundle for around £65 and then some ram'll set you back £30

*thinks about putting old K7 bits on the members market*

 

[semi-pro waster]

I did see a socket 939 3000 Venice advertised on MM for £25, you'd then need to find a cheap motherboard, probably another £30 with about £25 for 512mb Ram plus you'll need a case and PSU, cooler for CPU, hard drive and probably video card unless you get a mATX motherboard as most don't have onboard video now.

 

[wiggyuk]

I didnt think £150 was too unreasonable when you look at the prices it would cost new.

• AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3000BPBOX) - £44.64
• Abit NF95 GeForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard - £46.99
• GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) - £58.74
• Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 80GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - OEM (0A32721) - £30.54
• Sony Floppy Drive - Beige - £5.86
• Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU - £50.51

Total= £237.28 and thats all brand new gear, so for £150 I should be able to pick something up similar, what you think ?

 

[furnace]

Searching a popular second hand website with these terms brings about these prices;

• "AMD64" or "AMD 64" - £35
• "939 Motherboard" - £38
• "1GB RAM" - £30
• "Hard Drive" - £30
• "Floppy Drive" - £9
• "Case PSU" - £30

That's £181.

See with places like that, you have to pay again for postage on each item - you can't combine postage unless you buy from the same person.

I think you need to explain to her that computers like this are redundant nowdays and are reaching the end of their lifespans!

This is only £234:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-037-OK&groupid=43&catid=781&subcat=