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Spacedman

Spacedman

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Afternoon, it's my sisters birthday soon and my mum has tasked me with finding a suitable computer as the main pressie. Problem is i do not know anything about the budget end of the market and really have no idea what im buying. Ive volenteered to build it so dont feel you have to suggest a prebuilt system unless it offers seriously good value for money (my understanding is that they ussually dont) :)

The budget is around £300, slight movement around this is acceptable however please try to keep it to a minimum. Would prefere it to come under if at all possible.

It will be used for general internet (youtube etc.) and gaming (the sims, bit of world of warcraft) nothing to taxing.

Monitor and other peripherals are not required. CD-Drive is.

Any help you offer is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
Hi, does this include the OS? This will cost around the £70 mark, leaving you with £230 to spend on a PC. Maybe a value system from OCUK, but even then to get a decent spec you will be looking at almost £400

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-085-OK&tool=3

This with the graphics upgrade to 8600gt 512mb, vista home basic 64bit and 250gb hard drive.

For the £300 mark you are looking at integrated graphics, not sure how these will run the games you mentioned.
 
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I managed to come up with this, it's minues the OS though, which would take it up to £400. You might be able to save some money on the graphics, but it won't be much, maybe £10 at most.

In the future, you could always add in an extra 2gb of ram and a cpu cooler, the 5200 overclocks well, giving you a pretty good PC for the money.
 
K a few things fristly at low budget AMD are better bang for buck unless your doing some sort of editing in this case no so no need.

Second point a girl isent going to want a huge atx case sitting there so go matx.

case & psu

Mobo For your use you wont need a grapics card i own a 780g board myself & it can play wow, war, cod4 fine.

cpu

Ram

DVDRW

hdd

Subtotal £253.94
£298.38 inc VAT
 
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Yes i forgot to mention the OS, i knew it would take the budget above what was available. Was planning on buying that myself, not sure my 15 year old sister will appreciate a shining new copy of XP though... can imagine the disapointment in her eyes when she opens it :P

The above looks good, i will have a look at it when i get home :)

Thanks a lot. Its a bit last minute, god bless next day delivery!

*edit* was a bit slow with that post, still at the office. Both the above look good, with a new option in the second. Thanks to you both
 
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PwnDirect said:
K a few things fristly at low budget AMD are better bang for buck unless your doing some sort of editing in this case no so no need.

Second point a girl isent going to want a huge atx case sitting there so go matx.

case & psu

Mobo For your use you wont need a grapics card i own a 780g board myself & it can play wow, war, cod4 fine.

cpu

Ram

DVDRW

Subtotal £253.94
£298.38 inc VAT
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The case I spec'd is hardly huge, plus for £7 more, it offers more space and a more powerful PSU. Playing COD 4 on an integrated chip must be great :p The 4670 is a great card for the price. She likes the sims, so im guessing she may want the third one when it comes out next year, even the 2nd one will take more than intergrated grahics to run well. You missed out the hard drive, so both specs are the same price, I know what one I'd have.
 
yours is £30 :rolleyes: dont know who taught you math.

Its a full tax tower mine is a matx so considerably smaller & so better suited
There is no need for such a powerful psu, its overkill.

Also the 780g is the best onboard graphics available & played cod at 40-60 fps fine.

My spec has :

twice the ram
twice the hdd space
& cost less

& no I didn’t miss out the hdd i just missed the link so am still far under & you still cant add.

& yes ofc the 4670 is a good budget card but its not required for the mentioned games.

So don’t troll some1 else specs without basic math skills, interpretation skills or knowing the facts of hardware
 
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PwnDirect said:
yours is £30 :rolleyes: dont know who taught you math.

Its a full tax tower mine is a matx so considerably smaller & so better suited
There is no need for such a powerful psu, its overkill.

Also the 780g is the best onboard graphics available & played cod at 40-60 fps fine.

My spec has :

twice the ram
twice the hdd space
& cost less

& no I didn’t miss out the hdd i just missed the link so am still far under & you still cant add.

& yes ofc the 4670 is a good budget card but its not required for the mentioned games.

So don’t troll some1 else specs without basic math skills, interpretation skills or knowing the facts of hardware
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How was I trolling, you didn't show a hard drive, so I assumed it was missing. How was i supposed to know you missed a link, I'm not a mind reader. I added on another £30 for that, so theres my basic maths :p Not hard to understand.

Now, I don't exactly want to turn this spec thread into an all out war, so we both have different opinions, it's good to get different ideas. Yours, with the hard drive, makes it a decent budget system.
 
I would go with the AMD guys spec, although I personally would go with a E5200 and the Asus P5QL-CM instead (but keep rest of spec the same), although I am not sure how the G43's graphics are compared to the 780G chipsets. The price should be a few quid cheaper as the cpu is £12 cheaper, but the mobo is £5 more.
 
my specs win and it even comes with a monitor, if you dont want a monitor just deduct £100s or use it for a better chip, because if you look it has a 8600gt card :) if you dont want to upgrade the chip and no monitor you gettign it fior £208.

You should go for amd,
Casecom KB-7760 Black ATX Midi Tower Case - No PSU, No Case Fans Included 108280 195 in stock £10.99 £9.35 £10.99 £9.35
Hitachi 160GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM 124291 179 in stock £28.42 £24.18 £28.42 £24.18
AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 LE-1640 (2.6GHz) Energy Efficient L2 1MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor 141243 119 in stock £32.32 £27.50 £32.32 £27.50
OCZ 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 5-6-6-15 Value Series Memory with Lifetime Warranty 142376 83 in stock £19.96 £16.98 £19.96 £16.98
Arctic Power 500W PSU With PCI-E 2x SATA, 20+4 ATX12V 8pin +12V Connectors - Retail Boxed 124922 221 in stock £27.35 £23.27 £27.35 £23.27
Sony DRU-190A 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM IDE internal - Retail With Multi Bezel & Nero 142275 478 in stock £16.56 £14.09 £16.56 £14.09
ECS 8600GT 512MB DDR2 DVI VGA TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card 149369 82 in stock £40.99 £34.88 £40.99 £34.88
ASUS VW195S 19"TFT Widescreen 1440x900 300cd/m2 2000:1 5ms VGA Speakers Black 3 Years On-Site Warranty 151503 142 in stock £99.99 £85.09 £99.99 £85.09

(click if you have changed any details) Cart total inc vat: Cart total ex vat: Cart total inc vat: Cart total ex vat: £276.58
Asrock ALiveNF7G-FullHD R3.0 GeForce 7050 Socket AM2 onboard graphics 5.1 channel audio mATX Motherboard £30 <---- good motherboard built 2 system with it fantastic.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF7G-FullHD R3.0


£307 inc vat you can't beat that.
 
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mattheman said:
my specs win and it even comes with a monitor, if you dont want a monitor just deduct £100s or use it for a better chip, because if you look it has a 8600gt card :) if you dont want to upgrade the chip and no monitor you getting it for £208, or add 20 pounds more and get a dual core chip retail.

You should go for amd,
Casecom KB-7760 Black ATX Midi Tower Case - No PSU, No Case Fans Included 108280 195 in stock £10.99 £9.35 £10.99 £9.35
Hitachi 160GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM 124291 179 in stock £28.42 £24.18 £28.42 £24.18
AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 LE-1640 (2.6GHz) Energy Efficient L2 1MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor 141243 119 in stock £32.32 £27.50 £32.32 £27.50
OCZ 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 5-6-6-15 Value Series Memory with Lifetime Warranty 142376 83 in stock £19.96 £16.98 £19.96 £16.98
Arctic Power 500W PSU With PCI-E 2x SATA, 20+4 ATX12V 8pin +12V Connectors - Retail Boxed 124922 221 in stock £27.35 £23.27 £27.35 £23.27
Sony DRU-190A 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM IDE internal - Retail With Multi Bezel & Nero 142275 478 in stock £16.56 £14.09 £16.56 £14.09
ECS 8600GT 512MB DDR2 DVI VGA TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card 149369 82 in stock £40.99 £34.88 £40.99 £34.88
ASUS VW195S 19"TFT Widescreen 1440x900 300cd/m2 2000:1 5ms VGA Speakers Black 3 Years On-Site Warranty 151503 142 in stock £99.99 £85.09 £99.99 £85.09

(click if you have changed any details) Cart total inc vat: Cart total ex vat: Cart total inc vat: Cart total ex vat: £276.58
Asrock ALiveNF7G-FullHD R3.0 GeForce 7050 Socket AM2 onboard graphics 5.1 channel audio mATX Motherboard £30 <---- good motherboard built 2 system with it fantastic.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF7G-FullHD R3.0


£307 inc vat you can't beat that.
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