Spec me a budget pc

[Shure]

I'm looking at a budget of about £500 which needs everything apart from the case and a mouse.
Prefferably with a 19" monitor and maybe 2Gb memory? Its not needed for gaming so a cheap GPU would be suitable...

 

[semi-pro waster]

Ok, this is a shade over the budget but you do get dual core, a 19" tft and 2gb Ram. Graphics are onboard as given the budget there isn't much room to play with and it shouldn't matter much if it isn't for gaming.

MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£129.99 £129.99
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
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£25.95 £25.95
CD-078-SA Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) (CD-078-SA)
£16.95 £16.95
CA-012-AK Akasa Ultra Quiet 400W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.0 PSU - Black Nickel (CA-012-AK)
£34.99 £34.99
MO-019-OK OcUK Value Hanns-G HC194D 19" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-019-OK)
£104.99 £104.99
Subtotal £420.85
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £75.39
Total £506.19

 

[Participant]

^ Great spec for the money that. I have the Hanns-G as I finally decided to leave the 20" screens due to my current system thinking it would be fairly bad, but it's fantastic.

 

[GhostRider]

heres the AMD option

MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£129.99 £129.99
CA-006-SK FSP Sparkle ATX-400PNF 400W ATX2.0 PSU (CA-006-SK)
£27.99 £27.99
MO-017-OK OcUK Value Hanns-G HW191D 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-017-OK)
£109.99 £109.99
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£25.95 £25.95
CD-049-SO Sony DWG120A 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-049-SO)
£16.49 £16.49
MB-145-AS Asus M2NPV-VM Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-145-AS)
£49.99 £49.99
CP-164-AM AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-164-AM)
£54.99 £54.99
Subtotal £415.39
VAT £72.70
Total £488.09

and the CORE 2

MB-004-AK Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-004-AK)
£45.99 £45.99
MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£129.99 £129.99
CA-006-SK FSP Sparkle ATX-400PNF 400W ATX2.0 PSU (CA-006-SK)
£27.99 £27.99
MO-017-OK OcUK Value Hanns-G HW191D 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-017-OK)
£109.99 £109.99
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£114.99 £114.99
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£25.95 £25.95
CD-049-SO Sony DWG120A 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-049-SO)
£16.49 £16.49
Subtotal £471.39
VAT £82.50
Total £553.89