Spec for a business machine?

Slime101

Slime101

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I'm re-doing our setup at work, looking at moving over to SBS2008 and putting in some new machines for users (only a small company)

Currently we have some aging athlon machines wiht not-a-lota ram, old drives and generally slow and rubbish running windows XP, or win 98 depending on use.

I'm hoping to replace them with something silent, reasonably powerful and energy efficient.

The machines are used for e-mail, web, data input onto our bespoke systems, and general office tasks.

Any suggestions then chaps, i was thinking ION based perhaps???????
 
Budget er, small - if we could keep it to 200ish per machine that would be great.

Size doesnt matter, smaller is better though within reason.
 
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-6400C5C) £57.49

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.60GHz (800FSB) £52.99

Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99

Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Intel G31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £34.99

That makes 198 including shipping.

It has integrated graphics on the mobo I didn't know if you needed power supplies, cases or optical drives but I assume you can use the previous ones? Or are the optical drives IDE?

This is best I could come up with. Hope I helped.

DDR2 is expensive!
 
Will need cases and psu's - the old ones are tired and the psu's are not really upto modern standards. Opticals are IDE :(
 
Basically the stuff I didn't spec. :p

Case choise will be up to you as I don't know really what would be suitable in the office.

Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - £16.99

And the antec 350W power supply for £33

I'm pretty sure 350W will power that fine.

It's abour £240 all in? I hope I've helped. :) That's a good spec, I have the E5300 and XMS2 and I game with a 4850 so general stuff will steam train that stuff surely.
 
Google Vostro and wait for a special offer. We just had a job lot of these for £89.99 a couple of months back, and they are decent enough.
 
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