Spec me a PC please!

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My mum is wanting a new PC soon for around £1k. She is thinking of buying this thing from a place where the sell pcs for £1.3k which all it is is just a screen and the hardware is attached on the screen at the back.I am trying to convince her to go with something else, and maybe just let me buy the parts and put it together fro her and make a very good pc for much less money.

what she is looking at is called the SONY VGC-V3S, for £1300 from http://shop.sonystyle-europe.com/So...=GB&languageId=GB&s=external&ss=show&id=VGCV* (hope im alowed this link as its only for the offical website, not selling it i dont think):

Intel Pentium 4 550 Processor
3.4GHz Clock-Speed
800MHz Front Side BUS
512 mb RAM Memory
250 Gb Hard Disk Capacity
Multi Format Dual Layer DVDRW Drive
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce¿ FXGo5700 Graphics
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
802.11g Wireless Network Ready
Windows XP Home Edition Operating-System

Bascially what she wants is for it to be small, possibly the micro ATX i think ther called, and for it to be silent as possible, if not dead silent. I will be a media pc however she does play the latest games like sims2 so it will nedd to be able to do this and be ready for future games.

she needs a screen, mouse, keyboard, and i would imagine speakers too, however we don't need windows as we already have a spare unused copy of Media Centre in the house.

Rember she would like to keep it as silent as possible
 
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Shuttle XPC SN25P - £270.19
A64 X2 4200+ - £258.44
OCZ (2x 1GB) PC 3200 Plats - £164.44
BFG 7600 GT OC - £158.57
Samsung Spinpoint 200GB SATAII - £62.22
NEC ND4570 16x DVD-RW - £29.32
Logitech Ultra X Media Desktop - £35.19
Hyundai ImageQuest B91A 19" LCD - £223.19
Creative I-Trigue T3330 2.1 Speakers - £48.12

Total: £1249.78

Great little shuttle rig that would be perfect for multimedia use with the dual core A64 and 2 gig's of mem. 200GB would provide decent storage space and the 7600 GT providing good gaming quality.

Not bad for less than £1300 me thinks.
 
Had a shuttle in the past with a high clocked 3800+ Venice in and it was really quiet, near silent. There are fan settings in bios to turn the fan over the cpu heatsink up and down. Nice touch.

Can change the X2 4200+ for a X2 3800+ and the OCZ 2GB Plats for some Corsair 2GB XMS3200PT TwinX. Chainging the 7600 GT for a X800 GTO too, helps to bring down the cost.

New specification:

Shuttle XPC SN25P - £270.19
A64 X2 3800+ - £214.97
Corsair XMS (2x 1GB) PC 3200 TwinX - £135.07
Sapphire X800 GTO 256MB - £111.57
Samsung Spinpoint 200GB SATAII - £62.22
NEC ND4570 16x DVD-RW - £29.32
Logitech Ultra X Media Desktop - £35.19
Hyundai ImageQuest B91A 19" LCD - £223.19
Creative I-Trigue T3330 2.1 Speakers - £48.12

Total: £1129.84
 
Use the Crucial Ballistix 2GB.. they're cheap as chips and are highly regarded over on the RAM forums...

Personally, I think that's an ace rig for the price, though.. you did say, cheaper the better ;)
 
Bennah said:
I would'nt get the Ballistix. Been reading about kits failing and having to be RMA'd. Not that cheap considering. Would rather have the Corsair or OCZ as cheap reliable 2GB of mem.
For the record I've owned both the Corsair and the OCZ Plat's and I found the OCZ to be the better deal :)
 
id recommend Gskill too. had gskill for a couple of yeas now sinc ie got some LE, now jus tupgraded to some ZX, great vaule for money, especially for the tight timings
 
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