Spec a PC for £200

AndyC

AndyC

AndyC

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Hi All,

As above very tall order, what I need is a system that can be upgraded if needed without throwing everything away i.e. built a round a motherboard - on-board video is fine providing it will run areo, but I can add a card later.

Same with CPU AMD or Intel, don't mind a cheap Celeron providing it can run a fast chip later.

Just the basic system HD 80GB is fine, best spec possible, or is this the one,


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-037-OK


No software is needed, already have a monitor, Keyboard etc and a single stick of DDR2 512MB P4200 533 MHz ram

Basic office machine "but" can be upgraded to a med range gaming PC later.

Cheers
Andy

Edit - silent as possible within reason
 
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i have a system for sale

it is a sempron 64 3100+
gforce 6600Se
1.5gb ddr 400 ram (kingston lifetime warrenty)
Gigabyte Ga k8ns Pro
1x 80gb sata wd hdd (there is 2 of thse but 1 is v noisey)
qtec 650w psu

dunno what i want for it but its for sale
 
Any reason for £200 budget. That is a bit low considering you want to run aero smoothly.

And as for future possible upgrades, that alone would cost more than £200 budget.
 
you're not gonna get much for £200 tbh

i currently have for sale: asus mobo, 2x3800, 2GB geil, 6800

£200 will do
 
Very tight budget

Intel Celeron D 326 2.53GHz (LGA775)
Gigabyte GA_945PL_S3
BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7300 LE Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI
Maxtor DiamondMax 20 80GB STM380811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case
OCZ ModStream 450w ATX2.2 Power Supply



Total : £237.22

use your current 512mb of ram, the mobo will take a conroe, can stick better / more ram in at later date and upgrade the graphics.. to be honest your budget is way to tight.. :(
 
allllec said:
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case
OCZ ModStream 450w ATX2.2 Power Supply
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£76.35 inc VAT? for the case and power supply? We can do better.

Save £30 by getting the Antec NK4400 with very solid Antec 380W PSU. More than enough for this spec. Its on this week only for 40 nicker.

Everything else is fine as a base for upgrading. The S3 is fantastically solid (I just built one in the NK4400 case). However there are cheaper options.

If you do have an old AGP card hanging I would be tempted by a ASROCK 4Core Dual VSTA (available online with searching for £40) that would take your old AGP graphics card, but also has the PCI-E slot when you do actually upgrade to something with more power. However you don't mention having one.
 
Thanks everyone,

Yes it is tight - basically bought a laptop after years of owning desktops and it's just not the same, I also sold my desktop (Bit old) a few months back however after spending a small fortune on 2GB for the Dell laptop can't justify any more.

It looks like a Celeron is the way forward then poss an upgrade to Dual Core / Graphics Card later.
 
How about...
  • Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800BD SATA-II 2MB Cache - OEM £23.99
  • Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System - AMD Socket AM2 £59.99
  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £69.99 :D
  • Sub Total : £153.97
  • Shipping : £8.95
  • Vat : £28.51
  • Total : £191.43
Graphics wise, the on-board seems fine/approved. See here :cool:

& if you want Vista (even XP) to run fine let alone Aero, invest in more RAM*!

*1 or 2 GB :)
 
I doubt if the budget will stretch to a gig of ram never mind 2 Gig needed to run Vista reasonably well :eek:

Has the Amd price slash came into effect yet? it will pay to wait if it hasn't.
 
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once youve added ram to that its still as much as any other system and its AM2, not to say its a totaly bad idea however becuase he will have an x2 cpu. for the op to decide anyway :)
 
Jleo said:
never mind 2 Gig needed to run Vista reasonably well :eek:
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are you suggestion Vista has problems running on 1gb of ram mate? becuase it really dosent lol (although granted not ideal if you want to game big time)
 
Yeah I would say it would be pretty poor on 1 Gig not unless your going to be doing nothing else other than word processing and web browsing and if your going to game on Vista 4GB would be a consideration.
 
allllec said:
having used it a lot of 1gb i can tell you know mate its perfectly fine, and exactly the same as 2gb.. until it comes to gaming anyway :eek:
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If thats the case the retail versions must be a great improvement on the beta's that where on release pre christmas :)
 
yeah possibly, i haven't used anything since Beta 1. which was just horrible. Had the RTM edition since November now. (well I haven't been using it, but i have used it on many an occasion for a prolonged period of time on Mr Nomisf's pc lol)

regards

alec
 
Ive been using Vista now since the first Beta' s and im now running full retail. Im using 1GB of slow (533Mhz) DDR2 ram and i can tell you it actually feels more responsive than XP. I play plenty of games (BF2 GTA:SA). I also video edit and various other intensive tasks and it seems fine to me.

Dont know where all these people get the idea you need 4GB of RAM. lol

Rgds,
Nomisf
 
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