Spec me thread :-)

Meatball · 20 Dec 2006 at 19:51

My friend is thinking of replacing her aging pc with the following specs:
Celeron 2GHZ
256MB ram
40Gb IDE
Savage Graphics
Onboard sound

She'll be using the PC for photo editing, Music and internet. Now I would normally recommend building a PC but I've found a supplier that'll give me all this for £399 inc Vat (It's refurbished though with 1Year warranty):
Intel pentium 4 dual core 3Ghz
Win XP Media center
2GB DDR2 ram
300GB SATA
DVDRW Drive
Media card reader

Can anyone beat that? Max budget for them is around £450 for a base unit (no monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse needed) however it must include OS. Thanks for any help

Meatball · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:18

Anyone?

Nomisf · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:23

Hey mate ,

seems a little slow around here at the moment , christmas on the horizon and all. That spec seems like a really fairly good deal for the money. Its around the same i paid for my PC when i built it from parts bought at a PC fair.

It would seems that that spec is so extremely close to what i have , i can tell you - you wont be disapointed with it. And it will run Vista perfectly ( i am doing so now ).

Bottom line , good deal. Not sure it could be beaten by a self build - and it will be a massive jump over the previous spec. Just make sure its true to its warrenty.

Rgds,
Nomisf

mikeymike · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:27

im guessing no one can beat that spec for that price, looks like a hard one to beat

steve258 · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:31

Is that a Pentium 4 or Pentium D?? Only the later is dual core.

Dark_Angel · 21 Dec 2006 at 13:13

My first ever "specced" thread, so be kind

Conroe E6300 (around 120 with stock cooler)
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) (around 80 or so)
2GB ram OCUK DDR2 6400 ram (146)
DVD writter - your choice, anything fast and dual layer TBH.
= about 350 so far

7300 or x1300 for around 40 or so
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB (around 50)

Then buy a nice case and PSU with the money left over.

That conroe will easily destroy P4 dual cores, and should be nicely clockable with the M/B.

*EDIT* IGNORE. I thought it read 499 and not 399.

SiriusB · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:09

Ahh don't worry about going over-budget in spec threads - they usually do it by themselves anyway

However, if he isn't that bothered about it being super-duper fast then the deal he has got going is really rather good. Average joe wouldn't know the difference anyway.

SiriusB