Hi all, ok i am a little out the loop so this is what i need, hopefully someone can help.
Dad wants a nice base unit, decent keyboard and mouse (preferably wireless) and a nice (no cheap ass brands, he's seen my dell 20.1 and loves it) TFT monitor, anything above 19" would be great. Oh and best to allow about £30 for a set of speakers
Now the base unit...
Its going to be used mainly for, browsing internet, watching the occassional video, and watching his stores over some software via the internet to keep an eye on the staff. Also will be used for office, emails etc. But we want it to be nippy in windows and be reasonably future proof (by this i mean i dont expect it to play games uber well but if i put a blu-ray drive in it in the future or install vista etc it sould have no problems with lack of spec).
What would you recommend?
Futher Info...
I think Intel dual core would be best? Cheap and good? I have a Q6600 and im happy with mine.
Do i need a decent £60 PSU and which one, or is the one that comes with the case going to be ok?
Oh, any cheap case will do as long as its not white (ie silver is fine)
And i think 2GB Ram is a good idea?
I dont want him to moan he is runnning out of HD space any time soon but i cant see him needing a lot so i think something like a 500GB would be more than ample?
Needs one DVD Writer, preferably SATA (faster?) and i think pioneers are good?
As for the graphics card, it must be able to play HD stuff fine (as does the cpu to) but i dont think he will be playing games as such so what do you recommend?
Allow £50 for XP home (im selling him mine and getting Vista)
He is looking at £400 but i think its going to be more like £500 plus.
See what you guys can do for him...
Thanks
Dad wants a nice base unit, decent keyboard and mouse (preferably wireless) and a nice (no cheap ass brands, he's seen my dell 20.1 and loves it) TFT monitor, anything above 19" would be great. Oh and best to allow about £30 for a set of speakers
Now the base unit...
Its going to be used mainly for, browsing internet, watching the occassional video, and watching his stores over some software via the internet to keep an eye on the staff. Also will be used for office, emails etc. But we want it to be nippy in windows and be reasonably future proof (by this i mean i dont expect it to play games uber well but if i put a blu-ray drive in it in the future or install vista etc it sould have no problems with lack of spec).
What would you recommend?
Futher Info...
I think Intel dual core would be best? Cheap and good? I have a Q6600 and im happy with mine.
Do i need a decent £60 PSU and which one, or is the one that comes with the case going to be ok?
Oh, any cheap case will do as long as its not white (ie silver is fine)
And i think 2GB Ram is a good idea?
I dont want him to moan he is runnning out of HD space any time soon but i cant see him needing a lot so i think something like a 500GB would be more than ample?
Needs one DVD Writer, preferably SATA (faster?) and i think pioneers are good?
As for the graphics card, it must be able to play HD stuff fine (as does the cpu to) but i dont think he will be playing games as such so what do you recommend?
Allow £50 for XP home (im selling him mine and getting Vista)
He is looking at £400 but i think its going to be more like £500 plus.
See what you guys can do for him...
Thanks