Spec me up challenge..

[Jaga]

Hi everyone, i've only just joined but i'll hopefully be here for a while

Anyway, i've been reading the forums and there seems to be loads and loads of spec me ups, which all have huge amounts of money to play with!

So i was thinking, if you had to build a computer with £200, what would you have? The ultimate budget computer!

Only reason is that i'm off to uni soon and need a cheap rig to take with me. Obviously it might be upgraded later, but for now i need to know what budget kit might be recommended.

So what would you buy for that money?

 

[Naffa]

you could buy a 7800GT for that money then imagine you have a pc.

and

btw

 

[benjo]

Your best bet would be to pic up a second hand pc for that much. You wont be able to buy it all new for £200 And even if you did.. there wouldnt be much chance in upgrading it

 

[Jaga]

Well, i've already got a mobo and hard drive, just wondering if anyone could recommend some decent budget components.

 

[Raikiri]

MB-054-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 754) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-054-GI)
£39.95 £39.95
CP-139-AM AMD Sempron 64 2600+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-139-AM)
£41.95 £41.95
HD-015-IB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 80GB ATA-133 2MB Cache - OEM (0A30210) (HD-015-IB)
£29.95 £29.95
MY-002-OK OcUK Value 512MB PC3200 184pin DDR Memory (MY-002-OK)
£20.95 £20.95
CD-002-SA Samsung 16x48x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-002-SA)
£12.95 £12.95
CA-002-OP Optronix Midi Tower Case - (Silver) 400w PSU (CA-002-OP)
£22.50 £22.50
Subtotal £168.25
VAT £29.45
Total £197.70

£200 base unit, with onboard graphics but has PCI-e slot for future upgrades.

My graphics card alone was more than that

 

[Jaga]

Lol, yeh alright. I can't justify (or afford) spending that much on a graphics card at the mo! Cheers for the spec

Oh yeh, can all that stuff be found on OC?

 

[Raikiri]

It is all from OC

 

[Jaga]

Cool, thanks a lot mate, i'm very interested in that setup now!

Oh yeh, where on OC is the case you have put in the spec?

 

[Raikiri]

OCuk value cases http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/OcUK_Value.html I would spend another £15 on the Asus TA-210 as it looks far better and is a decent make

 

[Jaga]

Ok, thanks a lot buddy.