My father has an old Shuttle XPC G, G2 chassis and the following specs(which I obtained from CPUZ program):
Mobo: FN45 (from the manual) and comes up as FN41 SP with CPUZ
Memory: 2x 512MB PC3200 RAM
CPU: AMD Athlon socket A, 1144 MHZ
Graphics card: Nvidia Gforce4 MX 4000
HD: 120 MB
DVD player/burner
OS: Windows 2000
PSU: don't know but can check
The system is very slow and showing it's age.
My father has a £400 maximum budget for a new system (he already as the monitor/keyboard,mouse, printer etc) and there seems to be quite a lot out there in the land of midtop desktops and components...
Looking at my options I can either:
1) buy a system ready to go
2) building him one from scratch
3) upgrade the innards of his Shuttle.
I've got no experience building small form factor PCs, but after taking the case off and having a quick look-see, it all looks much the same just more compact and neat. I know cooling can be an issue and one has to be careful on choice of components.
It will be used mainly for web/email, writing letters, downloading/viewing photos, Youtube video, BBCIPlayer etc Gaming not an issue but it wouldn't hurt as I might be able to tempt him to the dark side over time
.
So nothing too fancy, high spec, expensive
Any recommendations, advice and help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!
S!ap
PS, need a new OS so that would have to be factored into the cost. Windows 7 perhaps?
Mobo: FN45 (from the manual) and comes up as FN41 SP with CPUZ
Memory: 2x 512MB PC3200 RAM
CPU: AMD Athlon socket A, 1144 MHZ
Graphics card: Nvidia Gforce4 MX 4000
HD: 120 MB
DVD player/burner
OS: Windows 2000
PSU: don't know but can check
The system is very slow and showing it's age.
My father has a £400 maximum budget for a new system (he already as the monitor/keyboard,mouse, printer etc) and there seems to be quite a lot out there in the land of midtop desktops and components...
Looking at my options I can either:
1) buy a system ready to go
2) building him one from scratch
3) upgrade the innards of his Shuttle.
I've got no experience building small form factor PCs, but after taking the case off and having a quick look-see, it all looks much the same just more compact and neat. I know cooling can be an issue and one has to be careful on choice of components.
It will be used mainly for web/email, writing letters, downloading/viewing photos, Youtube video, BBCIPlayer etc Gaming not an issue but it wouldn't hurt as I might be able to tempt him to the dark side over time
.So nothing too fancy, high spec, expensive
Any recommendations, advice and help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!
S!ap
PS, need a new OS so that would have to be factored into the cost. Windows 7 perhaps?
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