Spec me a SFF PC for £500

[fred_easey]

Hi,

My mate's after a new PC and wants to go SFF. His current setup is about 3 yrs old, AMD athlon based, so I'm guessing there's no point in carrying any parts across.

He'll be using it for pretty much everything, gaming, multimedia, work (big spreadsheets etc), internet etc. Budget is £500 and he already has a TFT (Dell 24" widescreen).

Basically he wants as top spec as possible for that budget.

Cheers,

Fred

 

[fred_easey]

2nd hand is fine.

AGP is fine.

In fact he has a half-decent AGP graphics card he can salvage - Aeolus 6800LE (this week only from about a year ago ).

I think he was toying with the idea of getting an SN95G, but was worried about the alleged compatibility issues between that Shuttle and the X2 processor

/EDIT tried to post to a SFF forum thread on said conflict but it was starred out. Guess they are classed as competitor

Fred